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Many of these protesters are not students but paid agitators as is being confirmed when they are arrested.
Almost 50% of those at the NYC riots were non-students. Half of them were paid agitators or professional protestors.
Nearly half of anti-Israel protesters arrested at Columbia, City College weren’t students: police
Of the 282 protesters cuffed and hauled away during a massive NYPD operation late Tuesday, 134 of them had zero affiliation with either school, Adams and Police Commissioner Edward Caban said in a statement.
Of the 112 protesters arrested at the Ivy League university, 80 were students and 32 were not affiliated with the school.
At the publicly-funded City College, only 68 of the 170 booked were students, while the remaining 102 were outsiders.
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No. These protests aren't worth the worry. They are a fad and the students who are protesting, by and large, don't know what they're protesting about. This will die out quickly.
This is NOT like the late 60's and early 70's college protests, where the students DID know what they were protesting against, with the Viet Nam war and the draft. And we got past that as a nation.
As long as they trash the colleges and not other property, I support them. Let these liberal colleges reap what they sow indoctrinating young people to be socialists/communists.
Protests on a campus aren’t a huge concern, but it is a symptom of a much more serious problem in the US.
Social cohesion is unraveling at an alarming rate. There is no way that this is going to end well.
I also don’t believe it can be fixed, either. We have way, way too many people inside the US who have zero allegiance to the country that they live in.
Where are we headed? Ethnic enclaves of self rule, while DC pretends that they are in charge of the whole thing.
Is the Israel and Palestinian conflict worth the worry?
Last I checked, neither party has come to a solution. And until that happens, we could see these types of protests forever.
People are burning themselves a live in front of embassies and occupying government buildings, that's absolutely worrying.
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Many of these protesters are not students but paid agitators as is being confirmed when they are arrested.
Outside agitators? Sure. Example, the Kenosha unrest shooting was full of outside agitators, because no one was actually from Kenosha.
Paid outside agitators? No, that's a leftist conspiracy theory. No one is paying people across the country to protest this and get arrested. Again, example is Kenosha, no one was paid.
i love these protests at universities and aren’t worried at all about them because of the following reasons:
1) It offers a sneak preview into the moral compasses of tomorrow’s leaders
2) It makes democrats look wonderful during an election cycle
3) It doesn’t affect me in the least because I don’t live near or work on a college campus
4) It exposes the core values of liberalism
I actually don’t understand the massive coverage of this - it’s not like there’s no history of college protesting.
And while it’s hardly the only protest, the Columbia one has garnered the lions share of the protest headlines. IMHO Columbia = NYC = barely America, so that should be tossed out as basically irrelevant. The rest are for local and campus law enforcement as well as campus administrators to figure out.
Israel has taken a legitimate right to act in its best interests and sullied itself with their wanton disregard for civilians. This was probably inevitable as Netanyahu’s political position was tenuous, but at this point I’m less interested in a bunch of kids camping out over the topic du jour than I am the mess that Hamas and Netanyahu have gotten themselves into and dragged other nations into with them.
Many of these protesters are not students but paid agitators as is being confirmed when they are arrested.
And when school is out for the summer they will try to use the momentum built during the campus protests to start BLM style protests in towns and cities. They need a reason for a new "Summer of Love" and this war is as good enough of a reason for them as any.
Remember the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.
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