Hundreds of members of teaching staff demonstrate in solidarity with arrested students as protest tents put back up on campus

Hundreds of members of teaching staff demonstrate in solidarity with arrested students as protest tents put back up on campus

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  • masterofn001
    321·
    8 months ago

    Maybe American history should be one of your first classes.

    College campuses have been literal battlegrounds in the US for ages.

    1970 Kent state 4 students killed by the ohio national guard during anti-Vietnam war protests began a tide of student protests and which basically turned the entire nation against the war.

    https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/kent-state-shooting

    1968 Howard university student protests were part of the broader civil rights movement.

    https://thehilltoponline.com/2018/03/31/50-years-later-the-demonstration-that-changed-howard-and-the-legacy-it-left/

    But, who cares. They’re just kids.

    Ps. Oh, and if you think that colleges are devoid of politics and political rhetoric…I just don’t know how you could be so wrong.

    • livus@kbin.social
      121·
      8 months ago

      This is a worldwide phenomenon. Universities are ideas places, and those ideas sometimes take off. Some examples of human rights movements that started with students:

      • The White Rose, Nazi Germany.

      • The Soweto Uprising, Apartheid South Africa

      • May 1968, France

      • Tiananmen Square, China