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

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    2 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.

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      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