Quote from: jimbogumbo on May 03, 2024, 01:50:13 PMQuote from: marshwiggle on May 03, 2024, 06:38:24 AMI would imagine at any sort of protest, from any part of the political spectrum, many (if not most) of the most violent agitators have little or no connection to the cause, but just want to steal and destroy.
What you describe above is clearly wrong, but just as clearly unlike what is actually happening in these protests.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/03/college-campus-protests-israel-gaza-student-journalists-00155672
QuoteWith so many incidents taking place in so many places, it's hard for anyone to grasp what's really happening at America's universities right now. So POLITICO Magazine reached out this week to top student journalists, who have been reporting on the turmoil at the ground level for weeks and months. As neutral observers able to interact with all sides, they can provide unique insights, even as they watch friends get arrested or worry if their graduation ceremonies will even take place.
Quote from: secundem_artem on May 03, 2024, 12:35:57 PMUpdate.
All the tall foreheads and deep thinkers on the board punted. No decision made.
Everybody knows something or somebody is gonna get cut. But nobody has the balls to wield the knife.
SO NOW FVCK1N6 WHAT!!!!???!!!
Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 03, 2024, 03:19:02 PMIt may be worth reminding people that even the Civil Rights protests, protests which we widely acknowledge as good and non-violent, and models of good protests, were very unpopular. In 1961, only 27% of people thought sit-ins, freedom buses, etc. helped the Civil Rights cause. in 1968, fully 75% of whites disapproved of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Protests are disruptive, and that doesn't win them many friends. But that doesn't make them wrong, or less important.
Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 03, 2024, 09:52:50 AMT1 work today, although I should probably start filling out the forms and stuff for T2, which should be back from the referee soon. Suppose I should sort out my one image permission, too (not hard, it's from the NPG).
Quote from: dismalist on May 03, 2024, 03:39:15 PM"I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours."
--Lewis Carroll
Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 03, 2024, 03:37:06 PMQuote from: dismalist on May 03, 2024, 03:35:51 PMHamas is not Gandhi.
Who said they were? These aren't pro-Hamas protests, and I wasn't talking about Hamas's attack on Israel.
Quote from: dismalist on May 03, 2024, 03:35:51 PMHamas is not Gandhi.