‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest | US universities
‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest | US universities
A peaceful action at the school near Atlanta, Georgia, was met with violent use of force and 28 arrests of students and faculty
The university’s response was likely the quickest show of police force in response to a divestment protest among the dozens nationwide that have occurred in recent weeks. It was also probably the only one where pepper balls, stun guns and rubber bullets were used against students, faculty and community members – at one of the few student protests in the south to date.
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Gen-X here. I am very curious to find out what percentage of Boomers that were very much so in favor of the university campus protests against the Vietnam war are now calling these Zoomers terrorists and justifying the use of force by the police.
Perception of the vietnam war protests at the time were also very split, and I would be very unsurprised to find that the people most against the student protests now are, or are the children of people who were very against the social movements of the 60s. The 60s were also an incredibly divided time in the US politically. Nixon won the whitehouse in 1968, and the civil rights movement had met extremely bitter opposition.
Nixon and the anti-civil-rights crowd were very, very wrong.
Conservatives are always proven wrong by history. Because the future will arrive anyway, you can only slow it down, not reverse it.
They were right about eugenics. That was a doozy that the left got wrong. But yeah, conservatives don't really do well with change for the better for people who have it bad.
Please, do go on.
I'm surprised I got downvoted. I didn't think this bit of history was that unknown.
This is about British and Scandinavian eugenics. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/from-the-archive-blog/2019/may/01/eugenics-founding-fathers-british-socialism-archive-1997
Galton, Darwin's brother, was the leading proponent. https://www.nicholls.edu/cheniere/2021/05/20/eugenics-in-the-united-states-the-forgotten-movement/
As a leftist myself, I'm horrified by it, but we need to know our history.
What's even better is that one of their greatest protest singers called out that pattern at the time:
Sure, once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
Ah, but I've grown older and wiser
And that's why I'm turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal-- Phil Ochs