Back then the Leftists weren’t calling for Genocide.
Some things are different like they had the draft hanging over their head which made it personal. The students today weren’t trying to close down classes like they did then, it was Columbia’s president who moved classes online. And the students are mad because they didn’t pay $90k in tuition for online courses and want classes to continue.
FUNNY DEFINITIONS OF “NON-VIOLENT”
Oh no! They’ve stumbled upon the secret. The vast right-wing conspiracy to make people not hate Jews.
Hey I wasn’t even born at the time, but it seems to me it was communist then, and it’s communist now. The only difference is that the communists from back then are the administrators, deans and trustees today. Still fighting the fight, only with million dollar paychecks. Because that’s what communist do. For each according to how much I can skim for myself.
Protesters get into trouble, when they:
- engage in aggravated menacing
- obstruct public ways
- burn, or by other methods, destroy property
The president or dean of a college, usually has authority to order employees and students to behave, and when employees or students do not behave, they may be dismissed from the campus. THEN, failure to leave, results in police authority being applied.
So, while you can protest, simply:
- do not destroy property
- do not engage in offensive menacing; do not make threats
- do not block public ways
- DO FILM your activity, so you can prove that you were not misbehaving.
T’was the situation back in the 1950’s - 1970’s, and still applies.
I was a volunteer in the university ombudsman’s office, and I read a lot of the American Association of University Professors (”AAUP”) documents:
https://www.aaup.org/reports-publications/publications/guidebooks
In general, the professorship (and aspirants), have a very inflated view of themselves: “experts” with “expertise.” That is something, they assert as a unquestionable foundation for self-policing, “tenure” aka job security under color of First Amendment protection, and stratospheric authority on almost every issue.
Like too many leftist lawyers and judges, who use similar foundations to elevate themselves.
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When I was studying Geology in the early 70s and Pharmacy in the early 80s if I did the crap those students are doing I would have been called into the Dean’s office and informed I am no longer a Student at Northeast Louisiana University now Louisiana State University Monroe. Problem solved.
Never heard of this “academic” before, but I don’t think much of academics using polemics (Thomas Sowell excepted).