B: "Let's look at the facts: it's been YEARS since you've been in a relationship and you haven't tried to pursue one"

I've been busy!

B: "No one's THAT busy."

Plus! I get touch starved!

B: "That can be fixed with intimacy with close friends. That's not a 'relationship'."

What about-

B: "We already touched up on the 'romance' part of things."

... but does it WORK like that?

B: "I mean I thi-"

Lemme check wikipedia. It might give me some insight.

B:

So congratulations.

You've done their work for them because you're afraid of being considered biased.

You've destroyed the public trust in, not just your individual institution, but virtually every institution of higher learning.

You've conceded ground and, thus, helped give way to Big C Conservative infiltration without them firing a single shot.

And you wonder why MLK had words about the "white moderate"...

It's even to the point that the NYPD police chief - who routinely saber rattles about protestors and criticisms about officers - couldn't find any real wrong-doing by the protesting student body.

And, yet, the university prez still presented them as a 'clear and present danger' requiring removal.

All to suspend them and get them charged with trespassing, obstruction, and lead to their swift eviction from the campus.

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/city-news/2024/04/18/adams-nypd-announce-over-108-arrests-during-gaza-solidarity-encampment-sweep/

So, in a way, opponents and apathetic bystanders alike are correct.

These tactics don't hit like they used to.

And that's not an indictment to the efficacy, intention, motivations of those organizing but one of the state entity and its people they are trying to motivate.

Kwame Ture said it best back then but these words, in my opinion, were seen as a harsh salvo against America and its people that was driven bias and, thus, viewed as illogical. But, in reality? He was spot on.

And when that happen, all of America fell in love with King, the movement, and their non-violent tactics.

... Psych!

Even a year later, they fucking hated his ass - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/10/how-public-attitudes-toward-martin-luther-king-jr-have-changed-since-the-1960s/#:~:text=King's%20favorable%20ratings%20remained%20about,who%20viewed%20him%20highly%20unfavorably.

So why did it work?

There was still pressure put on legislators and that was largely driven, in no small part, by shame. People couldn't look away - they didn't have the luxury to anymore - and that helped the push for the VRA. Shame got shit done.