What's cool about looking back at the history of college protests is that 19 year old students have been right about every single American war, and the esteemed Harvard educated opinion writers at the New York Times have been wrong about every single American war.

I don't know, was it good to replace LBJ with Nixon? Because that's what happened in '68.

For everyone bringing up World War II... www.vox.com/2015/2/11/80...

The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is absolutely stunning

"Several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent," the Times correspondent reported.

It's easy to be right if you don't understand your economic incentives for being wrong. The working world will straighten them out more often than not. As H.L. Mencken said "it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his income depends on his not understanding it"

Breaking news...from the New York Times DECEMBER 8, 1941 NEGROES PLEDGE LOYALTY Leader Wires Roosevelt 12,000,000 Are Ready to Serve Special to The New York Times. bookreadfree.com/228793/5663013

Also it's wild how many of those students got old and turned wrong about subsequent wars *stares at my Mom for no particular reason*

What's better about the current protests are that they're asking for more achievable goals. Divestment.

what about the history of antisemitic protests in the united states? have they been right about every single thing, or no?

Where are those students today? I have been asking that forever.

Sure. But they’re ignorant of the history of the region.