Isabel Fajardo
Week 7
AO3
I
think being able to protest any higher-in-power institution – not doing
anything illegal while protesting, mind you – without serious repercussions from
said institutions. The only real exception I have in that regard are the
Alt-Right, Neo-Nazi movement because they are blatantly racist, have harmful
messages, and have no place perpetuating their hate in our society.
In
“Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Paving the Way for Campus Activism,” one of the
sentences that stood out to me the most was: “FSM's success demonstrated to students
across the nation that effective protest movements could be built on campus, and
that engaging in such dissident activity was not "un American" but was,
in fact, their moral and political right.” I think that it is important to keep
this in mind when thinking about what the current government is doing and protesting
their actions. Last year, when Donald Trump was elected president, many
protests arose, and students marched and chanted into Downtown Davis.
College
students should be allowed to protest on their campuses without consequences,
so long as they are not harming anyone or doing anything illegal, which is
exactly why our pepper-spray incident is so memorable; they used force against
students who were defenseless.
Question: Why do so many older adults have a
negative view of student protests?
Reference:
Cohen,
R. (1985). Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Paving the Way for Campus Activism.
OAH Magazine of History. Retrieved November 05, 2017.
[PBS Newshour].
(2015, November 12). At Mizzou, Yale and beyond, campus protests stir
fresh questions about free speech [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgTkA4vD-FM
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