California State University placed Sonoma State campus President Mike Lee on leave Wednesday after he agreed to protesters’ demands to involve them in university decision-making and pursue divestment from Israel.
Dear California, my state, wtf are you doing? This is how it is suppose to work.
Did the generation that did protests become the same people they hated? Maybe.
For every white person getting arrested protesting civil rights from that generation, there was 10 spitting on Black kids for going to school.
Boomers tried to rebrand themselves as all hippies, but they were a tiny fraction of that generation the rest openly hated and shit talked.
The ones in power now with very very few exceptions were not on the right side of history.
Remember when it was just conservatives silencing academics for speaking about civil rights and against human rights abuses?
Now forcibaly quieting moral voices is a one of the only things that gets bipartisan support.
I mean, Biden did fight school busing to end school segregation during the day and hang out with Strom Thurmond at night…
And he spoke against people protesting for civil rights back then too…
There’s always been “moderate” Democrats who oppose social change, it’s just when we start simplifying things and calls everyone just Democrat and “vote blue no matter who”. Those assholes start running the show.
There’s a lot of very rich people who want to make sure that’s as far left as America has the chance to go.
Plus, even Donald Trump could get the Clinton’s to show up to his wedding for well less than 100k. Lots of shitty people donate to these “moderates” just to buy their way into the cool kids club and help public appearances.
Despite some of them, well, being Donald Trump just like 20 years ago.
Not everyone is on our side because they have a D by their name at the moment.