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A university president makes a case against cowardice

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453 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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assimpleaspossi ◴[04 Apr 25 17:55 UTC] No.43585737[source]▶
What bothers me the most about all these protests and going-ons at universities and colleges is that they are generally by 18-22 year olds who are pre-adults still in their formative years who still have a lot of learning and growing up to do.
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tguedes ◴[04 Apr 25 18:36 UTC] No.43586180[source]▶
I suppose that means you don't know about the rich history of college protests that were instrumental in progressing human rights over the last 100 years?
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1. trhway ◴[04 Apr 25 23:31 UTC] No.43588832[source]▶
It would be useful if you mentioned say a couple examples.

It would be even more useful if you were able to show that the effect of such student protests moving progress forward exceeded the effect of the student protests moving progress backward, like the Cultural or Iranian Revolutions. I think you'd not be able to show it.