Melissa Click is the University of Missouri communications professor made infamous last fall by a video that showed her calling for “muscle” to remove the student shooting the video from a “safe space” for student protesters. When the video went viral it did more than humiliate her: it handed everyone who disapproved of the mostly black protesters—whose claims of campus racism and demands that the university president resign rubbed plenty of people the wrong way—a shrieking white woman to scapegoat.
Click has become Missouri’s Obamacare, the thing Republicans line up to denounce.
