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Campus 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://e
by content_sesh 5y ago
Campus 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.