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Students at NYU Anti-Israel Protest Haven’t the Faintest Idea What They are Doing-Extraordinary popular delusions -- and the madness of crowds
Frontpagemagazine ^ | May 7, 2024 | Hugh Fitzgerald

Posted on 05/07/2024 5:18:53 AM PDT by SJackson

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1 posted on 05/07/2024 5:18:53 AM PDT by SJackson
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2 posted on 05/07/2024 5:23:32 AM PDT by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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Stupid and clueless

Perfect Democrat voters


3 posted on 05/07/2024 5:26:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SJackson

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1783154103947862364

Oh my. I just watched it.

THIS is how “The View”, CNN and MSNBC stay on the air. /facepalm


4 posted on 05/07/2024 5:29:05 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SJackson

Not any brighter than I was at age 10; marching around the school for the teachers strike. We had no clue what the strike was about, had no clue what girls were about, so sex and the reason to protest were not in our minds. we just wanted to be cool. at age 10 .


5 posted on 05/07/2024 5:31:44 AM PDT by Ikeon (My only issues with stupid people are, they encouraged to talk and post stupid opinions.. )
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To: SJackson

SMH....They want their “ I was there “ merit badge”.


6 posted on 05/07/2024 5:33:21 AM PDT by Ikeon (My only issues with stupid people are, they encouraged to talk and post stupid opinions.. )
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Sometime ago I saw a video on youtube where a man was asking people to sign a petition to eliminate woman’s suffrage. Most people would sign it but once in a while someone actually knew what it meant and would not sign it and started arguing with the man. So yes most people go along with the crowd. It starts in school with peer pressure and the really dumb ones just go along never questioning why. I’m sure that if enough people were jumping off a cliff they would also do it.


7 posted on 05/07/2024 5:35:32 AM PDT by George J. Jetso
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To: Ikeon

If you were in college at age 10 I’m impressed. But you make a good point. I presume you were marching at the behest of your parents or an influential adult. Many of the students are marching at the behest of their administrators/professors. Others just to be cool. Leaving out the half or so who are professional non student agitators.


8 posted on 05/07/2024 5:35:43 AM PDT by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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To: Ikeon

Hey Johnny - what are you rebelling against?
Whadda ya got?

apologies to Marlon Brando.


9 posted on 05/07/2024 5:38:54 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (P01135809)
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To: SJackson

They’re brainwashed to certain words one of them is “Protest” just like The Manchurian Candidate ,LOL


10 posted on 05/07/2024 5:43:43 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: George J. Jetso

I once saw a petition on a college campus to ban dihydrogen monoxide..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d54IrOBC1S0


11 posted on 05/07/2024 5:47:59 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: butlerweave

They’re not brainwashed. You need a brain to be brainwashed.

Rather, they are indoctrinated


12 posted on 05/07/2024 5:49:23 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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“... the madness of crowds...”

I read a great book by Elias Cannetti “Crowds and Power”

It explains a great deal. That, among other things, people do and say things in a crowd that they would never say or do, individually.

Crowds can be manipulated and motivated (easily) by unprincipled and evil people. It reminds me of the expression, “Small dogs run in big packs’.

13 posted on 05/07/2024 5:55:57 AM PDT by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: SMARTY

“It was Chain Lightning, it feels so good!”


14 posted on 05/07/2024 5:57:22 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Young, alienated, uneducated, disaffected misfits are easily led. They are (have always been) prey to selfish, dangerous maniacs of every description.

No scourge to mankind has EVER been without them


15 posted on 05/07/2024 6:08:07 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: George J. Jetso

“ eliminate woman’s suffrage.”

LoL

To be honest, I’d sign it too.


16 posted on 05/07/2024 6:49:12 AM PDT by Gary from Dayton (Army Vet 1986-1991)
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To: SJackson

What they are doing is obeying their masters.


17 posted on 05/07/2024 6:50:44 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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Look at her eyes. She is not a child of reason.


18 posted on 05/07/2024 6:54:18 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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Because she’s led around by her nose ring like a cow...


19 posted on 05/07/2024 6:57:35 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Some old guy gave me a $100 and a new Bluetooth headset.


20 posted on 05/07/2024 7:01:09 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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