Three student protesters were arrested at University of South Florida today. And reported with all the usual cellphone journalism and social media gusto we have come to exist.
From all appearances they are all the old suspects rounded up at Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and what ever Social Justice Cause Du Jour hits the social m…
Three student protesters were arrested at University of South Florida today. And reported with all the usual cellphone journalism and social media gusto we have come to exist.
From all appearances they are all the old suspects rounded up at Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and what ever Social Justice Cause Du Jour hits the social media hive mind. Largely ignorant of the real world (actual genocide, actual colonialism and how the free market is not organized to compliment their sensitivities and follow their moral compass)) and making extravagant demands on everyone not them.
I have never seen so many non-Arabs dressed up in Palestinian drag. I guess occasional cultural appropriation for the right cause is okay when done with the right people. Costumes are always required for performative displays of allied-ship. And of course there are the benefits of not having to waste time in class getting an education.
And now the faculty have to join in too. A lot of them are probably too young to have participated in my generations glory days of campus protest and are catching the latest protest train to leave the station. Relevance is a currency in our world today. Who will get the most press coverage, who gets the most clicks and likes, who gets to go viral?
It isn't really important that there are awful things in the world against which to protest. What is important is that "I AM" protesting and I can prove it on Facebook, Xitter, Tik-Tok, Instagram. See my latest selfie dressed in a keffiyeh--- sincere blue eyes shedding tears for Palestine.
Three student protesters were arrested at University of South Florida today. And reported with all the usual cellphone journalism and social media gusto we have come to exist.
From all appearances they are all the old suspects rounded up at Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter and what ever Social Justice Cause Du Jour hits the social media hive mind. Largely ignorant of the real world (actual genocide, actual colonialism and how the free market is not organized to compliment their sensitivities and follow their moral compass)) and making extravagant demands on everyone not them.
I have never seen so many non-Arabs dressed up in Palestinian drag. I guess occasional cultural appropriation for the right cause is okay when done with the right people. Costumes are always required for performative displays of allied-ship. And of course there are the benefits of not having to waste time in class getting an education.
And now the faculty have to join in too. A lot of them are probably too young to have participated in my generations glory days of campus protest and are catching the latest protest train to leave the station. Relevance is a currency in our world today. Who will get the most press coverage, who gets the most clicks and likes, who gets to go viral?
It isn't really important that there are awful things in the world against which to protest. What is important is that "I AM" protesting and I can prove it on Facebook, Xitter, Tik-Tok, Instagram. See my latest selfie dressed in a keffiyeh--- sincere blue eyes shedding tears for Palestine.
Good point on "appropriation"!