Missing the Point

Paul Mirengoff, a Power Line regular, does a column critical of the statements of Princeton University President Eisgruber who announced dropping the name of President Woodrow Wilson from the university's school of public policy. Mirengoff concludes the action is merely symbolic:

Unfortunately for Eisgruber, the decision to purge Wilson’s name isn’t making a difference for angry Blacks. Nor should it.

Mirengoff misses the whole point. Eisengruber dropped the Wilson name to placate white progressives, not "angry Blacks" with whom he does not regularly interact. So it's virtue signaled, problem solved, and now moving on.