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I think it started with college campus activism 10-20 years ago. If you feel empowered to shut down the dean’s office to oust a professor, you’ll probably think
by anon7725 5y ago
I think it started with college campus activism 10-20 years ago. If you feel empowered to shut down the dean’s office to oust a professor, you’ll probably think the same techniques can be applied to your workplace. It certainly doesn’t help that your workplace strives to walk and quack like some kind of college campus.
- content_sesh 5y agoCampus activism is much older than 10-20 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Philadelphia_student_demonstration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Philadelphia_student_demo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_strike_of_1970 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_strike_of_1970 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_protests_of_1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_protests_o...
- anon7725 5y agoYes, but this particular flavor is new.
- lanstin 5y agoShutting down college campuses? Hear of the 1960s? Sit Ins? We had a little of that in the 80s around Sout Africa and, oh Alaska ANWAR. Shutdown wallstreet toxics campaign. It is different now but in just the way everything that the Internet touches changes.
- anon7725 5y agoNo, it’s different in that now the shutdowns are not over issues such as the Vietnam War but rather a professor objecting to to a ‘day without white people’[0], an instructor using a word in Chinese that merely sounds like an unmentionable word in English [1] or a progressive dean using the word ‘slaveholder’ in a self-deprecating context [2] [0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-lesson-in-campus-consequences-11579134145 https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-lesson-in-campus-consequences... [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54107329 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54107329 [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/nyregion/CUNY-law-school-mary-lu-bilek-racism.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/nyregion/CUNY-law-school-...
- lucian1900 5y agoYou’re comparing large movements involving most of society with a few anecdotes during the current period of relatively little societal unrest.
- klyrs 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_activism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_activism A quick skim indicates that student activism has been recorded in some places dating to the early 1800s. How far do you think we should roll back civil rights?
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- thebigman433 5y ago> It certainly doesn’t help that your workplace strives to walk and quack like some kind of college campus. Is this not a great thing? Having a walkable place with quality of life amenities is a positive thing when youre talking about somewhere you spend at least 1/3 of the day