Merged Protests disrupt college campuses / Campus Protests

shemp said:
I bet there's a lot of old people screaming about how awful these protests are, who were 50+ years ago screaming about the Vietnam War. Just an observation, not a judgment.
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no, they were saying then what they are saying now, and what they were saying 20 years ago.
 
dudalb said:
My Mom grew up in the SF Bay Area in the Sixties, and according to her what we areseeint today would be second page news back then, compared to some of the protests of that era.
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I was born in 1972 and I feel qualified to say that you're mom is almost certainly correct. Hell.
 
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The New York Post knows what's causing these protests!

‘Long-withheld rage’ from COVID shutdowns to blame for pro-Palestine protests: experts

Blame it on Covid.

Campus protesters roiling colleges across the nation are part of a generation shaped by the pandemic, who grew up isolated and angered by school shut-downs and social distancing and are desperate to find a connection, community and a voice, experts told The Post.
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:boggled:

The "experts" that the Post cites actually is a single psychologist.

The pro-Palestinian cause allows discontented youth to express “long-withheld rage,” said forensic psychiatrist Carole Lieberman. It gives them an “opportunity to identify with the ‘oppressed’ against ‘oppressors.'”
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And one of the Post's favorite people, Rudy "Loony" Giuliani, makes an appearance.

Two Columbia students participating in an anti-Israel rally at NYU went viral when footage was shared by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani late Wednesday. They admitted they had no idea what the protest was about, and wished they were “more educated.”
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Well, I guess that settles that! How can anyone doubt Rudy's intelligence and veracity?
 
shemp said:
The New York Post knows what's causing these protests!

‘Long-withheld rage’ from COVID shutdowns to blame for pro-Palestine protests: experts



:boggled:

The "experts" that the Post cites actually is a single psychologist.



And one of the Post's favorite people, Rudy "Loony" Giuliani, makes an appearance.



Well, I guess that settles that! How can anyone doubt Rudy's intelligence and veracity?
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I wouldn't be surprised if he's actually onto something. Cargo-cult activism is woo. It's an empty gesture. Like other forms of woo, it's not really about the ostensible matter at hand. Conspiracy theorists aren't really interested in getting to some rational truth. They're interested in feeling important, in feeling special, in belonging to an elite group of Know-Betters.

So yeah, I don't think these protests are really about outrage over Israel-Palestine. I think they're about inner unhappiness. And I think Covid has been a major new source of inner unhappiness for a lot of people. Especially a lot of school-age kids.

I'm not saying I think this psychologist is right. I wouldn't be surprised if he's onto something, though.
 
theprestige said:
I wouldn't be surprised if he's actually onto something. Cargo-cult activism is woo. It's an empty gesture. Like other forms of woo, it's not really about the ostensible matter at hand. Conspiracy theorists aren't really interested in getting to some rational truth. They're interested in feeling important, in feeling special, in belonging to an elite group of Know-Betters.
So yeah, I don't think these protests are really about outrage over Israel-Palestine. I think they're about inner unhappiness. And I think Covid has been a major new source of inner unhappiness for a lot of people. Especially a lot of school-age kids.
I'm not saying I think this psychologist is right. I wouldn't be surprised if he's onto something, though.
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Probably, maybe protesting about the realisation that their gender studies degrees aren't going to make them millionaires before they're thirty.
 
like 3/4 of these posts are just boomer facebook memes and "GET OFF MY LAWN!"
 
Israel could do the same thing. Actually, they could do less to achieve the same objective. Stop pointing our weapons at our supply vehicles.

And I get you really want those damn kids off the lawn, but a US ally using US support to starve innocent people is really a bigger problem
 
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