• @CitricBase@lemmy.world
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    275 hours ago

    Let’s see…

    • Nazism
    • McCarthyism
    • Vietnam War
    • Racial Injustice
    • South African Apartheid
    • Occupy Wall Street
    • Gaza Genocide
    • etc.

    I am curious. Has there ever been a wide-scale student protest movement that WASN’T unequivocally vindicated by history?

    • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      The Young Turk movement started with medical students.

      There were quite a few pro-segregation protests when schools were desegregated.

      There’s also a lot of cases where students with real grievances and positive intentions are coopted; most of the students protesting in the early 90s in eastern europe didn’t intend to do a color revolution and have their countries stripped for parts.

  • @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    318 hours ago

    Given enough time, we were always going to have right wing authoritarians back in power.

    But call me an idealist, I didn’t think it would be actual Nazi sympathizers. Thought the brand was appropriately tarnished what with the Holocaust.

  • @OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
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    509 hours ago

    Weren’t they revoking degrees now for protestors? Anyone who considers Columbia a real school at this point is incurable.

  • Hikuro-93
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    Yes, yes, every piece slowly falls into place. *Cue maniacal villain laughter

    It’s like they actually studied history, to try and replicate the desired results as identically as possible. Or they didn’t, at all, and this is just 2+2=4 scenario but with history.