Lots of nonsense.
NEW: Pro-Palestine protester has no clue why she is protesting and then asks a friend why they are protesting who also has no clue.
Remarkable.
Reporter: "Why are you protesting?"
Protester: "Demanding that NYU stops! I honestly don't know what NYU is doing... Do you know what NYU is doing?"
Protester 2: "I wish I was more educated!"
This pretty much sums up most protests.
History seldom repeats, but it often rhymes.
How a student movement started and how it ended: the story of the Red Guard Movement.
The Cultural Revolution was formally kicked off on May 16th, 1966.
The students in the most prestigious universities and secondary schools in Beijing were immediately mobilized as the vanguards of revolution. They called themselves the Red Guards. They walked out of classroom, shut down schools, and attacked teachers and school administrators.
They quickly took the revolution to the streets and started the destruction of the “Four Olds” in public places followed by the looting campaign targeting private homes.
The first killing took place on August 5th in the most prestigious Beijing Girls’ Middle School. The girls beat, tortured and killed their principal.
In the rest of August thousands of presumed enemies died at the hands of the Red Guards. It is remembered as the bloody Red August.
The Red Guard Movement soon spread nationwide. Together these Red Guards accomplished what Mao wanted them to do: seizing power of all levels of the government for Mao.
The movement eventually got out of control. Fighting broke out among factions. Before long it resembled a civil war. They were now regarded as a liability rather than an asset.
In 1968 Mao deployed the army to suppress the most violent factions and sent the rest to the fields to be “re-educated” through hard labor.
The end.
This is a VERY important clip. I speak at more college campuses and with more college kids than perhaps anyone else in the country and what this man is saying is 100% true. Watch and have your eyes opened.
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