MIT suspends student protesters

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25. "These people" understood civil disobedience

To protest an unjust law, they understood they would gladly suffer the consequences for breaking it. They did so willingly with full knowledge of what their actions would lead to.

That is far, far, far, far different from the current protest culture of "I can do whatever I want, wherever I want, and I should suffer no consequences for it whatsoever. Also, send food. We take Uber Eats."

One group is brave, uncompromising people who deeply believed in combating injustice.

The other is hyper-privileged and cosplaying at what people in the Civil Rights movement actually did.

Comparing the two betrays a very shallow understanding. And, if I'm being honest, it dishonors the people who fought the Civil Rights movement to compare them to the abject unseriousness of the current campus behaviors.

These students are not the same in kind nor degree.