Many people who have been watching college protests become even more eccentric and radicalized in the past 5-10 years may wonder how these colleges became so extreme. While the state of our education system carries much of the blame, it is also crucial to consider the rising impact of outside forces on our college campuses. These organizations are largely responsible for the rise of cultural Marxism in US college campuses. They have also influenced a lot of the college campus protests.
These events have escalated sharply in the past few months due to the Israel-Palestine conflicts that began last October. However, these protests appear to have taken an even nastier turn, with anti-American and anti-Semitic discourse becoming the norm. Furthermore, NYPD officers have found proof that outside organizations are telling students how to organize protests to take over schools and how to deal with police officers who enforce the law during these protests.
Growth of Protests on US College Campuses
Protests on college campuses have grown substantially in the past few years, primarily from liberal students protesting woke issues. Although, these movements have been growing for a long time. One could point to Marxist organizations like BLM and Antifa sprouting up over the past decade. However, Thomas Sowell, puts it mostly on one man.
Envy, resentment, and payback are the ideologies of angry gnostics who are out to destroy the world.
Yet many of these initial protests were labeled “peaceful protests” even though protestors burned precincts, damaged small business buildings, and injured and killed innocent people. The current cultural environment leaves little acceptance of criticism of these events, which is the idea of this system.
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