This is the type of comment I’ve been getting a lot for my latest piece: Always from self-regarding liberals who never want to grapple with the fact that the civil rights protests of the 1950s and 60s – the legacy of which they surely want to claim – clearly violated those principles.
@tzimmer_history
I looked into organizing a protest in my city. To obtain a permit, I would have had to file all the paperwork in my name. If anything goes wrong, who do you think will be blamed?
"Getting the proper permit" may be a risk too life threatening to take in a political environment pocked by stochastic terrorism.
I won't take that risk. I'd rather take my chances on protesting without a paper trail to my name, thank you very much.
“If you engage in civil disobedience you will get arrested.”
Easy! Law and order. And this from someone who had “Democrat” in their bio and started their previous comment by claiming they - of course! - would have supported the 1960s civil rights movement. Perfect.
With this one… maybe this is just intended as parody of the polite-society-“moderate” status quo fundamentalism that likes to regard itself as “liberal”? Some kind of sarcasm? I must admit I’m not sure…
Student Revolt and the Curtailing of Critical Speech
The violent crackdown on campus protests reveals an alliance between the Right and mainstream elites who are driven by reactionary impulses and status anxieties.
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