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Split Thread Students should be punished for protesting

Keep in mind that we are not talking about a local college, but Universities that routinely produce members of Congress and top lawyers.
What will the person who got brutally arrested and kept in handcuffs for hours and punished by their University do once they are in the Senate?
 
Hercules56 said:
MLK did lots of protests that were very powerful yet did not impead on the rights of others.
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I seem to recall some study that found disruptive/obstructive protest resulted in negative public opinion of the protest cause.
 
Hercules56 said:
MLK did lots of protests that were very powerful yet did not impead on the rights of others.
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Wrong.

King’s organization of the Birmingham Campaign focused on illegally disrupting restaurants, churches, libraries, and more with sit ins, intending to overwhelm local jails. And the march from Selma to Montgomery, as well as the March on Washington, relied heavily on blocking traffic while marching. Martin Luther King Jr. did regularly speak about the importance of nonviolence, but he also organized in ways that were meant to disrupt the status quo, and called for others to do the same.
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EHocking said:
Because what you wrote was erroneous?
Pretty straightforward.
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No, cuz in the racist South, almost all forms of protest and civil disobedience that we take for granted today was pretty much completely illegal to black people.
 
The reason why MLK was allowed to operate (albeit under massive surveillance) was because he was seen as the safer alternative to Malcolm X.
 
Hercules56 said:
No, cuz in the racist South, almost all forms of protest and civil disobedience that we take for granted today was pretty much completely illegal to black people.
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Southern racist has nothing to do with your ill thought out appeal to authority by baldly asserting that MLK’s protest didn’t “impead” the rights of others.

The whole point of most of their protests were designed to “impead” the rights of other, e.g., access to restaurants, cafes, libraries and other buildings as well as marches that “impeaded” traffic.

According to you, students who “impead” others from campuses, buildings, lessons should be punished.
And then you try to assert that MLK was able to achieve his peaceful protests without “impeading” anyone’s rights, whereas it was actually his tactic to do just that.

Certainly racist administrations then used existing laws to persecute those groups of people they disliked.
Just as the current administration is using current laws to persecute those groups of people the dislike.

Which you support.
 
EHocking said:
Southern racist has nothing to do with your ill thought out appeal to authority by baldly asserting that MLK’s protest didn’t “impead” the rights of others.

The whole point of most of their protests were designed to “impead” the rights of other, e.g., access to restaurants, cafes, libraries and other buildings as well as marches that “impeaded” traffic.

According to you, students who “impead” others from campuses, buildings, lessons should be punished.
And then you try to assert that MLK was able to achieve his peaceful protests without “impeading” anyone’s rights, whereas it was actually his tactic to do just that.

Certainly racist administrations then used existing laws to persecute those groups of people they disliked.
Just as the current administration is using current laws to persecute those groups of people the dislike.

Which you support.
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You have no evidence that civil rights protesters blocked access to schools or post offices or restaurants or courthouses or whatever, based on the perceived race or religion or political views of the person being blocked.

These are things that the civil rights movement did not do, but many protesters at colleges were in fact doing.

Did the civil Rights protesters sometimes block streets and sidewalks from vehicular and pedestrian traffic? Yes.

Did they do this specifically to certain types of people based on their race and perceived political agenda? No.

That is the main difference. The college protesters last couple of years have literally been discriminating against people based on what they look like or what they're perceived political views were.

For example there are videos of students blocking an entrance at UC Berkeley to all students except people of color. People of color were allowed to pass through but white students were physically blocked. The college should absolutely not tolerate such behavior.
 
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read the article I linked to and educate yourself.
The previous post from you is an embarrassment as to how ignorant you are of the facts.

Look up MLK stage sit ins, frinstance.
 
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