We're All Noticing the Hypocrisy, Right?
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Campus protests have sparked a culture war flare up, which are not typically America’s best moments. Culture war fights are the trash TV of politics: They’re pulpy and inane, and they cut our collective IQ roughly in half. They typically end like an episode of
Remembering the Weather Underground, a Columbia Protest Movement Gone Maximally Wrong
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***Almost everything in this article comes from Bryan Burrough’s excellent book: “Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence”. In addition to the Weather Underground, the book covers groups including the Black Liberation Army, the Puerto Rican separatist group FALN, and the Symbionese Liberation Army. I highly recommend it.
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