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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. sethcotlar.substack.com/
16.4k followers2.3k following10.1k posts
Just one of many possible examples. A Jewish professor who writes and teaches about Jewish history. Brutalized by police on her campus for supposedly supporting antisemitism.
Today we look back positively on the lunch counter sit ins of 1960-1, as products of a movement that understood how to protest “the right way.” The overwhelming majority of Americans in 1961, however, disagreed. Their contemporaries thought those disruptive students were doing it all wrong.
"We had to beat the shit out of them in order to protect them"
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. sethcotlar.substack.com/
16.4k followers2.3k following10.1k posts