Why are (some) young people going apeshit and tearing down their own educational establishments, when Biden was supposed to make everything better just by being elected?
What happened to "the world is saved"...
You have to be really unhappy to protest this much for something 4,000 miles away. Everybody knows it's not just Palestine, you have to be unhappy to get this violent for this long.
There shouldn't be a need to protest against genocide.
sharewhen are students going to protest the genocide in Ukraine?
shareUkraine death toll is much smaller with a population est. 15x larger. Also, U.S. and others give weapons to Ukrainians, a seat at the U.N. and severe economic sanctions against Russia.
Meanwhile, the U.S. and other Western countries have allowed Israel to maintain an apartheid system while stealing land, ethnic-cleansing and conducting incremental genocide since 1948.
We actually have had names for people like that in the past.
Cause heads, useful idiots, bandwagon-jumpers, suckers, the mob, attention whores, losers, paid shills, morons, shit disturbers, flying monkeys etc. These days many of use just use the terms "woke" and "woketard" to describe them.
See, there is a type of person out there in the world (and sadly, they are very large in number) who have nothing to offer the world except taking up space. They are people who are stupid, not talented, have never learned a useful skill, often don't work for a living at all, and basically are a waste of skin. They know that they are worthless, and one way to compensate for that lack of worth, is to jump into any issue that requires them to go out and protest or "fight" for some cause, even if they don't know anything about it and/or don't believe in it themselves, but it's a popular thing to do right now and it will get them attention. Bonus points if some evil person in power is indirectly financing them and providing all the resources they need to protest and do publicity stunts.
A sad reality is, you find a lot of students at colleges like this, who are either living off of their parents' money paying tuition, or they got a scholarship simply for existing, and they totally waste their time doing protesting, publicity stunts, and partying instead of actually getting an education and making something of themselves.
However, I noticed something interesting about the more massive protesting and riots that have taken place on college campuses as well as elsewhere: most of the people who come in to cause trouble of this nature, don't actually live in the area, and don't actually attend the college in question. They were bussed in by community organizers who had an evil plan in mind. It's apparently been a tactic used for years, and the organizers count on people watching the news or hearing about it on social media not to pick up on this fact, making assumptions that the fools doing the protesting or rioting are locals and/or students attending the universities where the incidents are taking place, when often they aren't. Sometimes the news monkeys even perpetuate this lie before someone forces them to write a retraction, if that happens at all.
"They were bussed in by community organizers who had an evil plan in mind. It's apparently been a tactic used for years, and the organizers count on people watching the news or hearing about it on social media not to pick up on this fact,"
A lot of meandering sentences just to get to that point. But it's correct, these people are surprisingly well funded during a time when inflation is causing everyone else to cut out necessities. So someone is trying to distract or push an agenda of some kind/narrative. They did not do shit when BLM was marching and taking down monuments on the school and looting.
Well Mr. Cynic, did you never think that it's possible that a person can have ideals that transcend time or biennial elections?
shareIt's a kind of fashion.
As a student you have to be against it (against whatever) so that you can scream along with the others. Screaming together feels powerful.
For a while it was fashionably to throw stones at the police.
Some 'special' people still like to throw stones at the police, but this trend has greatly diminished.
For some reason the police didn't find it fashionably to be hit by rocks.