Leon Wolf, a contributor to Erick Erickson's RedState blog, wrote that the University of Missouri football players and students protesting racially charged incidents on campus are “cowardly liberal lazy douchebags” protesting for reasons he claims are “completely unrelated to racism,” but are aimed at avoiding “practicing for a bad football team.”

University of Missouri football players announced that they would stop participating in football activities “until the president of the university system [was] fired or [resigned],” following weeks of student demonstrations reacting to reported on-campus incidents including “racial slurs hurled at black students and feces smeared into the shape of a swastika on a wall in a residence hall.” Student groups maintain that the university administration's response to these and other events have been inadequate and “sluggish,” and the president resigned November 9, “urging everyone involved to 'use my resignation to heal and start talking again.'”

In a November 9 article, Wolf dismissed the protesters' claims of racist incidents on campus, alleging that the players “invented facially unbelievable accusations of widespread racism on campus” to “skip the last three weeks of pointless practices” for “a bad football team.” He derided the students' demands as “laughably absurd,” and called the protesting students “cowardly liberal lazy douchebags” and  “willing suckers” engaging in a “lazy strike”:

The sports media - who are uniformly worse at their jobs and more sickeningly liberal than their news media counterparts - have been breathlessly reporting on the fact that thirty black Mizzou football players are allegedly going on strike over racism on campus. This is being presented as an act of courage likely to foster social change, rather than as the act of lazy cowardice that it is.

Here are a few key points to illustrate why the story is not as the sports media would have you believe - these are not brave change agents, but lazy cowards.

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At the end of the day, this isn't a courageous strike against racism. It's a lazy strike against practicing for a bad football team. The fact that the media isn't reporting it this way is evidence of the media's own laziness.

Upon news of university president Tim Wolfe's resignation, Leon Wolf updated the original post to say “Mizzou's President has apparently resigned, proving that some people think negotiating with terrorists is a good idea, even when those terrorists are 1-5 in the SEC.” RedState editor Erick Erickson also wrote that “University of Missouri makes me laugh. The inmates have taken over the asylum.”