Live updates: Tensions rise as protests on college campuses continue nationwide
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  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    2 months ago

    Tensions rise as police riots set to happen on college campuses due to peaceful sit-ins that would otherwise be over in a week or two when summer break starts.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    8·
    2 months ago

    Mass media talks about it in the more dire terms. Campuses are rocked by protests. Tensions rise. Etc, etc. While reality is peaceful most places. The students are pro-alive (as in not killing vs pro-life==anti-choice). But holy shit, if you are far-removed from it you get a different version.

    • Sanctus@lemmy.world
      English
      222·
      2 months ago

      No, that’s exactly what it means. As long as the assembly remains peaceful we are protected by law.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      152·
      2 months ago

      Yeah getting beat up and arrested by the police is totally what people mean when they say there are consequences for your free speech. /s

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          131·
          2 months ago

          That’s not actually true, Vietnam Anti-War protests used encampments all the time. By camping instead of marching you allow more people to join the protest and it becomes more flexible. You don’t need to stay the entire time if you need to go to work or something. Camping as a form of protest goes back to at least the Bonus Army in the 1930’s. And in the Vietnam era the Mall in D.C. was camped on by thousands of people several times.

            • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world
              131·
              2 months ago

              A boomer thinks their anecdotal experience is indicative of anything beyond their own experience? Shocking.

              /s

                • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world
                  6·
                  2 months ago

                  Yeah, he’s the classic boomer model of “my point is whatever makes me correct at this immediate moment”. Check his comment history for a laugh, he gives people grief for doing the same things he’s doing here. No self awareness or integrity whatsoever.

                • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world
                  5·
                  2 months ago

                  I don’t think you understand what anecdotal evidence means. One person seeing something repeatedly is still anecdotal and of similarly little value when making statements about broader trends.

                  You didn’t link or even reference this media coverage that specifically supports your assertion so yes, for your comment and even this one, the observation is still solely yours. We’re not mind readers, we don’t know what you’re not telling us and, in case you ask, no, we’re not going to look it up for you. If you don’t provide evidence, people online generally assume you’re making it up, and rightfully so.

            • Maggoty@lemmy.world
              101·
              2 months ago

              Okay so you participated more in marches than encampments. Good for you. But before you say all you see are threats to Jewish Americans, think back to what you were accused of, and google Jews for Peace. You’ll find they’re active in these protests. Which would be kind of weird if they were in danger from their fellow protestors? Media is making it seem like these are radicals in the same way they vilified the students protesting Vietnam.

              And the 1930’s Bonus Army wasn’t homeless people. It was World War 1 veterans demanding their pay.

        • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
          6·
          2 months ago

          They took over school buildings? You don’t know what you’re talking about nor why you are programmed to have this response.

    • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world
      111·
      2 months ago

      Having government goons attack and arrest you is not one of the allowed consequences under the constitution for peaceably exercising your rights.