Several conservatives, news organizations and right-wing social media accounts are fighting a culture war over videos of sororities — typically majority white — doing choreographed dances for sorority rush week. But there’s one problem: There’s been no evidence of recent widespread backlash or public discourse over the videos this month. In other words... “no one cares,” as one expert in American studies says.
In a recent segment of “Finnerty” on Newsmax, host Rob Finnerty spent some time discussing a part of the sorority recruitment process, referred to as rush, as videos of female college students dancing together played on-air. Finnerty called rush “one of the great American traditions for female college students.”
“It should be OK to celebrate things that are uniquely American,” he said. “But over the past several years we haven’t done that, we’ve been scared. Scared of the backlash, scared of who we might offend, we’ve been told that what you’re seeing here is wrong.
“We were told there wasn’t enough diversity in all these videos. But all that is changing, and it’s changing because of what happened in November,” he said, referencing President Donald Trump’s presidential election.
