• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    there ever been a wide-scale student protest movement that WASN’T unequivocally vindicated by history?

    • National Socialist German Student League were literal Nazis

    • The Red Guards were a Student-led paramilitary group.

    • Japanese Students protested against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo)

    • Veganism?

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      4 hours ago

      The key word is “widescale”. The reason is that a malignant narcissist can get a small group of cultists to do anything. But in order to get a large group of cultists to do something, he needs a propaganda machine like fox News and they have a much older demographic