Columbia University has fallen

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It's called the anti-war movement.

If you were around back in the 60s and 70s or 00s you would have come across the same movement and people demonstrating against the war in various countries.

 Yeah no it's not " just like the 60s and 70s"...and comparing it as such is simplistic AF and rather dismissive.

College protests weren't usurped by outside influences as much in the 60s and 70s as we are seeing now. Every Kent State protestor shot was a Kent State student, yet we continue to get reports that half of the protestors ARE NOT affiliated with the universities. For example in Georgia the very public protests at Emory University, the protests were energized by off-campus protestors of Cop City a new training facility being protested for a year or more in Atlanta. It has nothing to do with anti-war, or Palestine. Just people pissed off a plot of land in DeKalb county Ga that was being used by the homeless is being developed by the property's owners.

Elsewhere at Columbia half of those protestors arrested had no affiliation with the university. We've seen the same elsewhere like Austin UNC etc. So you are basically wrong... except the protests want to hide behind the cloak it's the same. 

Again nothing wrong perse with being organized and using outside supporters in 2024 but Im not going to pretend this is the same as the 70s when we had civil rights and multiple political assassinations at that same time. For instance at it heights in the 70s L.A there were 70,000 people protesting last night 5000 or so total LOL and some of those were those who oppose the protests. Something virtually nonexistent in the 70s. 

The majority of Americans support Israel 2024. By the late 60s, US public support for the Vietnam war had already started to wane 



https://www.pewresearch.org/2024/03/21/m...out-hamas/

https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/us-news/ne...-students/

 
Nearly half of the protesters arrested at the Columbia University and City College campuses during violent anti-Israel unrest weren’t students, police sources said Thursday — a day after Mayor Eric Adams warned that “outside agitators” were radicalizing youngsters.
Of the 282 protesters cuffed and hauled away during a massive NYPD operation late Tuesday, 134 of them had zero affiliation with either school, according to law enforcement sources.
Hizzoner, who has repeatedly blamed this week’s on-campus chaos on professionals with a history of fueling non-peaceful protests, also touted the initial figures, saying more than 40% of the initial arrests were “outsiders.”
“What was given to me by my team, a preliminary review of the numbers, just the beginning process of analyzing, but it appears, though, that over 40% of those who participated in Columbia and CUNY were not from the school and they were outsiders,” Adams told NPR during a media blitz.