"Tuesday is 60th anniversary of an event that shaped our world: The Berkeley Free Speech movement, which set the stage for modern liberalism - and the right's backlash
How bittersweet that a wave of campus repression is drowning their victories."
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60 years after the day college students won free speech, their rights are vanishing
It's hard to celebrate the anniversary of 1964's Berkeley Free Speech Movement when students are losing their right to protest.Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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in reply to Laffy • • •10/ "But will today’s youth generation — coming of age in a more repressive time, saddled with problems like debt and rampant careerism not faced by their predecessors — be able to accept that torch? Huge issues, including the constitutional right of dissent and the future of colleges as bastions of open discourse and critical thought, hang in the balance. Sixty years later, America is desperately waiting for a second Free Speech Movement."
Please read the whole column
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I guess it makes a lot of sense to remind people of 👉why this rightwing backlash happened, strategically speaking.👈
I'm therefore linking to an insightful article by #JonSchwarz from @theintercept, which I threaded:
*The clandestine logic behind "#Reaganomics"
"The Origin of #StudentDebt:*
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592
...as well as a more current look at the issue by @ThomHartmann on #HOA and "...#Reaganomics #grift #Republicans have...
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#USpol #FreeSpeech #Republicanism #Reagonomics #MAGA
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...inflicted on this country for the past 43 years:"
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112875414830140318.
For those asking how long this #Republican strategy that led up to #Reaganomics and the #MAGA movement had been going on, I would like to point out this important thread:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598555451884508
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This is a great thread. Thank you for posting!
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You are very welcome!