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10. This older generation is teaching them all the wrong things.
Sat May 4, 2024, 11:40 PM
May 2024

Fithian taught them to apply the excesses of Occupy Wall Street (property appropriation and destruction) that cost OWS public support (but she didn't teach them to bug out before the cops moved in, like she did!). Carlson taught them hate, violence and disrespect.

None of these lessons served them well. These has-beens were just trying to stay relevant by co-opting the issue du jour. They had nothing to offer but their bad ideas to these kids.

Where are this generation's Mario Savio, MLK, Cesar Chavez? It seems most of these kids hide behind tents and keffiyehs they bought on Amazon and get inspired by uneducated influencers and shadowy foreign internet organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine instead of by their fellow students. Indeed, some of them label many of their fellow students the enemy, "Zionists." It's tragic.

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