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The radicals got old www.chronicle.com/article/we-h...

Screencap of Chronicle of Higher Education headline:

'We Have a Mass
Movement of Young People Advancing
Horrifying Ideas' Paul Berman, an organizer of the '68 protests at Columbia U., warns of an intellectual crisis.
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DAborderlander62.bsky.social

This was really pathetic

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BJbrunojnavarro.bsky.social

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Urwford.bsky.social

Embarrassingly sad.

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LGyogaleigh.bsky.social

Some of us got old but never stopped working for change. Everywhere I've lived I've found my way to the other old hippies who still try to make a difference.

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WHsymbo1ics.bsky.social

When the "horrifying ideas" are "carpet bombing a city full of civilians with the intention of killing them all is bad"

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cathibea.bsky.social

Forgot Hibiscus (born George Edgerly Harris III;

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cathibea.bsky.social

The prior generation has been saying the youth are wrong since Homer. Youth are not [protesting in a meek andfree speech movement. Led by a Friends of SNCC student activist named Mario Savio inaudible fashion. The older free speech movement, Mario Savio and the rest

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Tthatevilenby.bsky.social

The age isn't the problem imo, it's a combination of never really having principles, a lack of humility and willingness to constantly learn, and occasionally material interests changing (i,e, them getting wealthier)

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