USC evolves into UCLAsian?
The Los Angeles Times reporter Kimi Yoshino self-righteously reports that a Fox Sports show has been cancelled due to "racism."
The offense? Interviewing actual USC students about the USC football program. Nobody disputes that the students interviewed are actual Trojans, merely that it is "racist" to show that foreigners do not care about American football.
If Fox had chosen to interview Anglo students about Jai Alai with humorous results, that would have been fine.
The fact is that the face of the student body at American college campuses is changing. Institutions actively recruit international students who pay higher tuition than the native born. USC has a far more diverse demographic than it did in the 1980's when 'SC students frequently responded to UCLA Bruins taunts of "University of Spoiled Children" with the retort that Bruins were at the "University of Caucasians Lost among Asians" or called it "UCLAsian."
That is not a statement saying that East Asians are inferior or somehow to be punished. It is merely an observation of beloved "diversity"- isn't "diversity" a moral good? Aren't we commanded to "Celebrate Diversity!" (always in the imperative)?
Is it not ethnocentric of the offended leftists to assume that Chinese, Thai and Japanese students would care about college football as much as kids from Hermosa, La Jolla and Van Nuys?


Elvis Nixon is one of the most savvy social commentators around.
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