(05-02-2024, 11:40 AM)putnam6 Wrote: 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
[Image: https://vietnam.unsw.adfa.edu.au/wp-cont...68x578.jpg]
https://www.pewresearch.org/2024/03/21/m...out-hamas/
https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/us-news/ne...-students/
I didn't say the protests are the same as they were back in the 60s and the 70s but will become very much like they were at that time if the Israeli Army keeps killing innocent civilians. Everywhere else in the world there are similar protests and it doesn't matter if not all participants aren't students, it shows the anti-war movement is supported by students and non-students. Israel has lost most of the support because of the killings of civilians and I don't think the majority of Americans or Australians (put whatever ethnicity you want) support Israel when they are killing women and children in their thousands. Anti-war movements are very powerful and students can bring down governments and regimes.
