As editor of The College Fix, I read many different college newspapers across the country each day. With that, I have seen a dozen-plus opinion columns addressing the atrocities of “white privilege” since the start of the fall semester a few weeks ago.
Guess what I have not seen? Not ONE op-ed or editorial decrying the Rotherham rapes. Not one.
Meanwhile, here is what passes as a priority for the average college student: The “nude” colors and labels of bras and Band-Aids, recently deemed an example of white privilege and racism by the Oklahoma Daily student newspaper’s editorial board.
In their collective wisdom, they opined in an editorial this week that “bras in slightly different shades of pale peach abound, but there are few to no options for darker-skinned women and they aren’t advertised as nude-colored. … Whenever you’ve had a minor cut or scrape and gone to reach for a Band-Aid, have you every used one that wasn’t made for light-skinned people? We guess probably not because flesh-colored Band-Aids for darker-skinned people don’t seem to exist. …”
“There are subtle instances of racism ingrained into our daily lives; instances so commonplace they often go unnoticed. …We encourage all of our readers to think critically about the small instances of racial bias they encounter each and every day.”
Well, this presents an interesting problem. My husband, who is of Scottish decent, is so white that he borders on translucent, and Band-Aids are actually too dark for him. I have Middle Eastern blood coursing through my veins, and my skin is always darker than the Band-Aids and “nude” bras I own. Point is, there is no one for whom they match perfectly.
And who really cares, anyway?
Bras and Band-Aids come in all shapes, colors and sizes – based on market demands. Capitalism dictates such things, not the whims of campus intellectuals and their minions with too much time on their hands and an ax to grind. But these are the kinds of issues that take priority at college campuses today.
That 1,400 young English girls have been literally “raped by multiculturalism,” as Dennis Prager recently put it? Crickets.