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Modern Protest Culture is Crippled by Internet-Brain

On being shocked that your university isn't like social media.

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Samuel D. James
May 15, 2024
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Disrupting institutions to achieve a desired social or political outcome is classic American protest. These processes are rarely pleasant and often ineffective (at least in the long term), but there’s nothing uniquely Millennial or Gen-Z about them. The pro-Palestinian students who have taken over buildings at Colum…

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