Oberlin's President Says No

Hunt
Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:11:47 +0000

My take on this is that the group that prepared the list of demands lacked effective leadership. That’s why the list contains such a hodgepodge of reasonable and silly demands–it was written by a committee, and everybody’s pet demand made it into the final document. There was nobody to say, “Wait a minute, we can’t really demand to be paid for organizing.” I see this in a lot of progressive groups–and sometimes it’s a deliberate preference to not have identifiable leaders. That doesn’t really work very well, though.