A lib I work with who has good politics about Palestine (shocking given his politics on basically everything else) had this to say in regards to the treatment of professors and student protesters.
All I could think was “have you been living in a cave?”
This guy actually believes the hype about America; Never mind the BLM protesters who were also arrested and given unacceptable prison sentences, never mind the national guard getting called on protesters, never mind cops killing protesters from time to time, now this is isn’t America.
It’s been America for a long time, I’ve no idea how he hasn’t noticed to be honest.
Hit them with cointelpro, condor, gladio, Fred Hampton, phoenix.
I actually did that just today!
He was talking about some people he knows who were being harmed by basically capitalism; the people he knows were middle men between one major corporation and many other small companies, and one small company got in touch with the corporation, so the giant corpo told the smaller one to find whatever dirt they could on the middle men; long story short, the middle men were being majorly harassed by the FBI. I then brought up cointelpro, which he googled and discovered that what I’d told him was real, and I also mentioned that they were behind Fred Hampton’s murder, and he was telling me that it feels terrible having grown up with this vision of heroism only to have it be shattered.
All I could think was dude, you’re in your mid 30’s, you should know all of this by now. It’s crazy to me that this is considered esoteric information, but then I realize I really only know about this because I started reading history being put up by socialists and communists.
Good work!
The best thing we can do is treat people like they don’t know and be patient with them.
Unless it’s on here then dunk away