You may remember Melissa Click as the frenzied activist caught on camera calling for "muscle" to be used against a student journalists covering the Mizzou crybully protests. Now Click is the type of activist born to promote the ugly claim of "white privilege", but then she manages to shoot it down in one easy whine.
Under pressure from state legislators, she says, Missouri’s Board of Curators fired her to send a message that the university and the state wouldn’t tolerate black people standing up to white people. "This is all about racial politics," she says. "I’m a white lady. I’m an easy target."
So to "unpack" Melissa's knapsack, she's contending that white leftists are easier targets for firings than black leftists. So much for white privilege. Instead Melissa Click is arguing that black activists have black privilege that she lacks.
Click's PR people are on the case and her leftist allies are whining about academic freedom, even though no interpretation of academic freedom covers threats of violence against student journalists. But the real story is that Click's whining has unintentionally revealed a telling truth.