“The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public”: Vietnam, apartheid South Africa, Iraq War, civil rights, etc. https://kottke.org/24/05/the-kids-are-right-and-alright
The Kids Are Right (and Alright)

Osita Nwanevu on the recent US campus protests: The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the p

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@kottke thank you for telling me i am right :p
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Now if they would only engage in practical electoral politics, they might actually have some influence on American policies.
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Exactly right, that post is a direct indictment of the "student left" for not learning how to impact public policy over the last 60 years.
@GreenFire @Okanogen @kottke the student left was very effective up until 1966 or so when it was hijacked by a recurring infestation of cultists

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except maybe #racism? #ableism?
This old hippie remembering we didn't have it all figured out even if we were 'righter' than our parents

#JustSayin #BlindSpot

@PeachMcD @kottke If you are against ableism don't use the word blind spots.

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If you are blind, you know you can't see things.

Description isn't a slur, as far as I know.

If folks from the #Disabled community tell me the phrase is problematic I'll definitely stop using it, but not to please a rando reply

@PeachMcD @kottke look at Grammarhow and what it posits. Sometimes a little reflection is needs to understand other perspective rather than defending archaic notions. I suggest reflection and reflexivity. Language and ideas evolve.
@PeachMcD @kottke your last comment suggests a very troubled and an ego driven person who is unwilling to learn.
@kottke Once the rest of America catches up and foreign policy realigns, everyone that supported the immoral policy will dust their coats and deny their past actions. This includes the partisan voices that currently and vituperatively denounce people calling out Biden's complicity in genocide

@kottke the protests started before Israel fired a single bullet. Imagine if campus protests erupted in Europe against the US on the day after 9/11.

A single experiment can disprove a scientific theory. Similarly this single data point disproves the hypothesis that the campus protests have moral clarity. Them shouting hamas slogans, harassing jews, and being funded by Quatar is beating the dead horse.