Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag from a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses nationwide. The school promised they would face expulsion.
The occupation at Columbia — where protesters shrugged off an ultimatum to abandon a tent encampment Monday or be suspended — unfolded as other universities stepped up efforts to clear out encampments. Police swept through some campuses, spurring confrontations with protesters and plenty of arrests. In rarer instances, university officials and protest leaders have struck agreements to restrict the disruption to campus life.
https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/kent-state-shooting
If you believe that police corruption and emboldenment has remained the same for the last sixty years, you have some reading to do.
I don’t recall saying that.
You responded to my comment regarding increased police state with a historical act of police violence. How is that not the subject? Sure, there was always corruption. I’m suggesting it’s now the standard, not the exception.
I added to the discussion by providing a historic event showing that things were fucked up 60 years ago with protestors. Never said it hasn’t gotten worse or the state of the world hasn’t changed since then.
That was the intended implication of your link and message in that context.
You’re exhausting. Take care
You repeatedly edited your comments to change the conversation, and I’m exhausting? New account. 11 comments. Half of them deleted. Cool.
Conversation never changed. I apologize for edits. Again nothing was changed to redirect the narrative. You also edited all of your comments.
I’ve had this account for almost a year.
All I did was post a historic event that things were in fact difficult back then. Kids were getting shot and killed. It’s always been rough.
We are on the same side, but you have so much anger in you, you turned it into all of this.
I wish you the best.
Your account is the one that is flagged for being less than 30 days old. The other one is nearly a year.
Your original comment in response to the 1968 Vietnam protests stated “before we got all police-statey”, which any reasonable reading would see it as implying we were not a police state in 1968 and became one later. Dude posts about Kent State which happened in 1970 to show how we were already a police state around that time. How you manage to read that as saying things haven’t gotten worse since 1970 is beyond me.
That’s not what “police state” means…
The biggest motivation for colleges to end the protests is safety liability. From what I’ve seen, it’s been largely the police that are making the protests unsafe.