• simulacra_procession@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    One of my professors was actively involved during the civil rights era and her words have really stuck with me. She said, speaking directly to our class, if you kids were in the civil rights era you wouldn’t last a second. I fear she was completely correct.

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      3 days ago

      “Yet here you are with a secure job, maybe even tenure, assets, established support networks, and a platform, doing fuck all about it while expecting us to flush our education down the toilet while still saddled with debt during the worst economy in decades, to take all the risk of starting a revolution for you.”

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      If that’s true then it’s the fault of the generation that raised them. Saying that as a ~40 year old.

      I also wonder who the hell she was looking at when she said that, because did she sleep through the campus encampments in protest of the Gaza genocide that got violently cracked down on? Does she think her generation came back to college to do that?