Posted on 05/05/2024 6:37:48 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Like every major college protest since the 1960s, the pro-Palestinian—which is to say, the anti-Israel—protests sweeping college campuses today have early and often been compared with the protests of that annus horribilis, 1968. There are plenty of similarities but also plenty of differences. History repeats itself as student and faculty protestors align themselves with the totalitarians. Then it was the Viet Cong, Mao, and the Khmer Rouge. Today it is the Sunni Muslim terrorist group Hamas, the main puppet master of the “pro-Palestinian” agitators.
One apparently striking difference is the strong current of anti-Semitism. It is ubiquitous now; it was not a factor in the protests of the 1960s and 1970s.
But that difference distracts us from a deeper similarity between the two. Fueling the anti-Semitism is a profound anti-American and anti-Western animus. Although shot through with radical Islamic verbiage, the overarching ideology is essentially Marxist in aim and origin. The assaults on campus are not so much political as a snarling repudiation of the political in favor of something more atavistic. As Jean-François Revel noted in The Totalitarian Temptation (1977), such an upsurge is “not simply a new political orientation. It works through the depths of society. It writes the play in which political leaders will act much later.”
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The dirty hippies of the 60’s and 70’s were no better than the pro-rapist Arsholes who do not condemn Hamas and their supporters. This is all based on hatred of the West. Always has been.
Nailed it.
Exactly.
The headline seems to suggest the anti-west idealism of the 64-70's+ was on the plus side of the scale when it was greater in terms of lives lost than the irresponsibility occurring today.
It is even short-sighted to limit the view of what is happening today to the college campus. See for instance, the wokeness pervading our marketplaces and our military.
One common strain between protesters then and now besides the virtue smugness is their underlying hatred of the US
the sixties protests also had an undercurrent of the destruction of WASP establishement in the USA at the same time as the british empire collapsed.
now its all about the destruction of the white establishment in the usa as the europeans lose out to muslims in their homelands.
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