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Originally Posted by metsandfinsfan
https://www.thewrap.com/how-the-stud...ement-blew-it/
It’s been three weeks since students started taking over university campuses and we can now officially call it – they’ve blown it.
Instead of being defined as young people driven by a principled stand against Palestinian suffering in Gaza, they’re now broadly defined as a bunch of entitled, whiny, immature kids who want their 21st century creature comforts but also every single political demand immediately. And also: the meal plan.
Instead of being seen as champions for free speech they’re now defined as creepy groupthinkers who robotically chant slogans and follow directives by some shadowy, far-left leaders who wear masks and spew terms from Maoist playbooks like “imperialist forces” and something something “settler-colonialists.”
Students gonna student. It's recreational. I can just remember TV footage of London students working themselves into a lather outside the US Embassy in 1968, pointlessly fighting with the police and chanting, 'Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Minh!' and generally having a nice day out, when dear old Uncle Ho would have had the lot of them sent to re-education camp as bourgeois deviationists, and the Vietnam War had nothing to do with Britain anyway because PM Harold Wilson, despite LBJ's ugly threats to cause a run on sterling, declined to send British troops there. But students gonna student.