What’s Going On Tears Down That Wall

Before I commence laying into Clay Travis, a disclaimer: we don’t usually get into politics here, and I’m not going to go too far into it this time, but still, Qwan might end up moving this one over to Qwantity Media. I wouldn’t blame him if he does. I thought about just putting it there in the first place, but then decided that if Clay Travis can use Fox Sports to get political, I can use this sports media platform to call him an idiot.

Now, a Tulane frat built a wall around their house for it’s annual formal ball. The wall is something they do every year, I have no idea why. What was new for this year, though, was adding Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” to the wall. From NOLA.com:

Leadership in the local chapter said members added GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s name and slogan to this year’s wall as satire, said university spokesman Mike Strecker.

Right. Satire. Uh-huh. Of course. Why would anyone doubt that? After all, frats are notorious for being hotbeds of forward thinking, progressive ideology, and inclusiveness. Here’s where the story takes a nice turn, though. A bunch of Tulane football players showed up and tore that sucker down. So everything’s cool now, right? This is the end of it? Well, unfortunately, no, because resident bonehead Clay Travis had to put his two cents in:

Every time I think we can’t see a more ridiculous campus event surrounding Donald Trump, something more absurd happens.
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a Tulane fraternity’s wall of sandbags outside the house has been dismantled by alleged Tulane football players.

Really, this is the world we’re living in right now.
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Satire or not, the football team, which has just one winning season in the past 13 years, showed up and tore down the wall.

What in the world does the football team’s record have to do with this? So you wouldn’t be upset if they were national champs? Is that it, Clay? Their voices only matter if they win football games? He gets worse.

So the message on Tulane’s campus is pretty clear, if someone has a political belief that you disagree with, enter their private property and destroy it.

Think that’s okay because you dislike Donald Trump and what he stands for?

Imagine the reaction on Tulane’s campus if another organization had a pro-Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders symbol on their private property and Donald Trump supporters showed up and tore that symbol down. Or, god forbid, how do you think the national media would cover a bunch of white frat guys tearing down a wall meant to honor the black lives matter movement outside the Tulane black student union?

You can’t be serious. Nobody is this stupid. The tall Oompa-Loompa with tiny hands and a bird’s nest on his head proposed building a wall to keep out Mexicans because, according to him, they’re rapists and bring drugs and crime, except for some, whom, he assumes, are good people. I don’t even have words for how incredibly stupid and racist that is. By putting “Make America Great Again” on their idiotic sandbag wall, the statement is that in order to make the country great, we must keep out an entire group of people, because most of them are criminals. That’s okay to you to say, Clay?

And as for Clay’s comparisons to other candidates, neither Sanders nor Clinton have proposed something racist like this? And white guys tearing down a Black Lives Matter monument outside the black student union? Well, now you’re heading towards hate crime territory, Clay. Hey, Clay, if a group of black students saw a group of white guys burning a cross, would it be okay if they put the cross out? Or would that infringe on their rights?

And there we have it, I don’t think Donald Trump would make a good president and I’m not going to vote for him, but the fact that many liberals on campus are unable to handle someone having a different political opinion than them should be terrifying to all of us with functional brains.

Just because you disagree with someone doesn’t mean they don’t have the right to their opinion. And it certainly doesn’t mean you can enter their property and tear down their statements of political belief.

We are not talking about political beliefs. We are talking about racism. Nobody is protesting Ted Cruz or John Kasich. They are protesting Donald Drumpf’s stupid wall, because that idea is rooted in racism. For Pete’s sake, how dense are you, Clay?

That opinion used be associated with liberal political thought. Amazingly, a belief in the first amendment has now become a conservative value.

The first amendment does, in fact, guarantee freedom of speech. Clay certainly believes wholeheartedly in freedom of speech. Just look at this bit from earlier in his article:

First protesting Emory students compared themselves to slaves after Donald Trump chalk showed up on campus — the event sparked a nationwide Trump chalk campaign on behalf of people who weren’t cry bullies on campus

Oh. So freedom of speech is only important when it involves white jerks saying something racist in support of a conservative presidential candidate and people who exercise their rights by protesting things are “cry bullies”? Is that it, Clay?

The first amendment states that the government can not limit your speech. Last I checked, the Tulane football team was not a government entity. That frat had the right to do what they did. Does it make what they did good? Of course not. That kind of nonsense is something only an idiot would defend. And could one not make case that the Tulane football team was exercising their first amendment rights and protesting racism by tearing down that stupid wall? Good for them for doing so.

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