Hundreds of members of teaching staff demonstrate in solidarity with arrested students as protest tents put back up on campus

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  • Manos@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Why the fuck are you protesting at colleges? What’s the school going to do in the realm of international politics?

    If I went to this school, I wouldn’t want a tent city set up in the middle of campus with a bunch of lefties chanting lame slogans either. I don’t know if I’d call the cops, but I’d sure be happy when they shut the fuck up.

    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Maybe American history should be one of your first classes.

      College campuses have been literal battlegrounds in the US for ages.

      1970 Kent state 4 students killed by the ohio national guard during anti-Vietnam war protests began a tide of student protests and which basically turned the entire nation against the war.

      https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/kent-state-shooting

      1968 Howard university student protests were part of the broader civil rights movement.

      https://thehilltoponline.com/2018/03/31/50-years-later-the-demonstration-that-changed-howard-and-the-legacy-it-left/

      But, who cares. They’re just kids.

      Ps. Oh, and if you think that colleges are devoid of politics and political rhetoric…I just don’t know how you could be so wrong.

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        7 months ago

        This is a worldwide phenomenon. Universities are ideas places, and those ideas sometimes take off. Some examples of human rights movements that started with students:

        • The White Rose, Nazi Germany.

        • The Soweto Uprising, Apartheid South Africa

        • May 1968, France

        • Tiananmen Square, China

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      7 months ago

      Heh. Next you’ll be asking why do people drink or hook up at college and you wish they wouldnt.

    • Jimmybander@champserver.net
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      7 months ago

      God damn protesting colonials. They should have just stopped whining about their problems and enjoy being British subjects.

    • Audacious@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Protests at colleges is like a time honored tradition now. It happens all the time for various reasons in the past.

    • Anas@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The school would optimally divest from israel and israeli companies.