I'm still thinking about the protests and why they're happening on some campuses and not others.
I know quite a few college students -- and though they don't like the war and violence, not one of them is feeling moved to protest. Not one.
And, the protests of the Vietnam war were driven largely by the fact that people were getting drafted and killed. That's not the case here.
There's a pattern, and I don't know what it is.
Although, talking to people around me, i notice a general belief among regular people that what's happening is in fact genocide. By Israel, not by Hamas. 🤨So naturally, people don't support that -- who would? But still, there is a noticeable lack of protests happening at many schools, and the protests that are happening are not this natural groundswell of outrage that happened during Vietnam, because students were being directly affected. It's not the same.
Morning Jan,
With love, it's very strange to see people to suggest it isn't "natural" for youth to protest. The kind of protest in Columbia, for instance, isn't new. When my school partnered with the UAE, Jewish students, women's groups, & LGBTQ student groups united in protest, because a UAE satellite campus wouldn't be a safe place for any of them. Didn't work! Our uni claimed the contracts were too far along. But it's a normal site of student action even outside times of war. /×
@MLClark
Perhaps it's natural for college students to protest, but it's not happening with any of the American college students I know personally, and it seems to be limited to certain campuses.
I don't think they care, frankly. Most of them. Not as much as they would if they were being drafted into a war like they were in the 60s.
Again, it being limited to certain campuses makes perfect sense: some places have more they can ask their universities to do.
Put another way, if students *were* protesting everywhere, there'd still be a crowd spinning universality as its own proof of suspicious activity. These young people engaged in the time-honoured tradition of civil disobedience cannot win, whatever they do; they will always be seen as the problem. But mass protests happened around Iraq, too. This isn't new.