When I wrote Bias Incident, there was one scene that I was a bit concerned was a little over-the-top. It was the scene at the feminist rally called “The Guy Bash.” In that scene, a pinata of a “white male oppressor” is beaten.
I thought it might seem a bit exaggerated, but still amusing.
Now I think it’s just amusing.
It’s clearly not exaggerated. After all, there’s this:
Black students at the University of Memphis hanged from a tree a piñata made to look like a white woman, and took turns beating it with a stick. A photo of the incident has been making the rounds on the internet, and the university had to issue a statement about it this week.
Click here to see the photo.
Was it a racist act? No, turns out it wasn’t intended that way at all. Just some kids having fun at a party.
But imagine if the racial dynamics had been reversed — white students beating a black piñata hanging from a tree. I think we can all be grateful that wasn’t the case.
Sometimes a piñata is just a piñata.
Leftists, as Theodore Dalrymple has said, have turned satire into prophecy.
