• CitricBase@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Let’s see…

    • Nazism
    • McCarthyism
    • Vietnam War
    • Racial Injustice
    • South African Apartheid
    • Occupy Wall Street
    • Gaza Genocide
    • etc.

    I am curious. Has there ever been a wide-scale student protest movement that WASN’T unequivocally vindicated by history?

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      4 hours ago

      The Young Turk movement started with medical students.

      There were quite a few pro-segregation protests when schools were desegregated.

      There’s also a lot of cases where students with real grievances and positive intentions are coopted; most of the students protesting in the early 90s in eastern europe didn’t intend to do a color revolution and have their countries stripped for parts.

    • LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe
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      5 hours ago

      University students lead the Hungarian Revolution, and history doesn’t remember them fondly. They rebelled against the Soviet Union, which makes them Nazis. It’s a good thing our dear leader Stalin sent the tanks in to kill those students.