I’m tired of people infantilizing student protesters and suggesting they don’t know what they’re doing, don’t understand what’s happening in Gaza, are trying to get out of class blah blah blah, so I wrote this: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/o...
Older folks’ objections to protests and encampments may not be as reasoned as they claim.
Students may know what's going on in Gaza rn. But it seems they have no idea what went on in Gaza before 10/8 and absolutely no concept of the me prior to 1948.
+ literally have no idea how the platform of "you’re too much of idiots to vote for my party" is going to create a blue wave
I'll take Hillary's word over yours. Maybe you ought to listen to the truly ignorant and hateful rants of these cretinous "students" and the faculty who provoke such hate.
hillary didn't support student protests back in the day either, since she was a goldwater girl at the time
Great piece. Thank you It would be interesting to survey the major student protests of the last 50 years and see how many of the causes advocated became accepted wisdom 10-15 years later. It seems to me like almost all, but that may be survivorship bias
Survey research shows that older generations always hate student protest, no matter what’s being protested. They think students are essentially children and have to earn the right to have a real voice in political affairs.
“I have had many conversations, as you have had, with a lot of young people over the last many months” is not a believable statement from HRC
That's a very well written piece 💛 (also, surprised and delighted to see the evocative "oontz oontz oontz" in a serious and logical argument)
Thanks Elizabeth. Well said. The comments on NYT though are wild tho.