The most memorable images from last week's campus protests at the University of Mississippi will come not from the pro-Palestine activists who held a 30-person rally in a barricaded area, but from the much larger opposition they met: jeering white students, bedecked in patriotic clothing, overwhelming in numbers, mocking the protesters for their physical appearance, cheering for Donald Trump, clearly having quite a good time.
In one video, shared proudly by Georgia GOP Rep. Mike Collins ("Ole Miss taking care of business"), a sea of white men yells "lock her up" at a Black student protester. Some of the young men captured in other videos chant "Lizzo" at a Black woman, yelling, "Fuck you, fat-ass, fuck you, bitch." One of the young men, who would later be kicked out of his fraternity, hops in the video Collins shared, imitating an ape, hooting monkey noises at the Black woman.
At the University of Alabama, occasional homophobic comments could be heard among the counterprotesting students, who were also yelling " Fuck Joe Biden." At Louisiana State University, young men drowned out pro-Palestinian students with chants of "USA" and mockingly told the students to " get out of our country."
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