The Kind of Thing that Doesn't Happen in Texas

From Little Green Footballs, a thoroughly nauseating story titled "Jihad at San Francisco State," another installment in the long-running series near-riots involving College Republicans at American universities and those who support the Palestinian cause (or just hate Israel). Check out the third picture, in which students wear black and white keffiyahs just like their hero Yasser Arafat, and the looks on those kids' faces.

This is the kind of thing you don't see on the University of Texas campus, where people have a reputation of taking matters of justice into their own hands (Charles Whitman, the UT tower sniper, got return fire from police and civilians alike) and don't tolerate rioting mobs of any kind. I heard a couple of stories about Arab students celebrating 9/11 around the campus, near which I worked in a real estate office at the time, but never did see anything of that kind. I attended the rally on campus the weekend after 9/11, and while pacifism at all costs seemed to be the only topic (no retaliation, feel the pain of your enemies, an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind, etc.), there were no outright anti-American behaviors that I saw other than the idiotic ranting of Robert Jensen, who blathered a bunch of nonsense from a bullhorn and ran away when a friend and I asked questions he didn't want to answer.

I guess San Francisco is filled with gentle people, at least among the College Republicans.