UPDATED – NYU Revolt Watch: It’s Over February 20, 2009
Posted by Jehuda in Uncategorized.Tags: Education, News, Politics
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Food Court Revolutionaries: Interrupted Suspended!
Ha! “The Man Wins!”
UPDATE: “they have the support of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky.”
I’m sure they do. Unfortunately that support could not make up for the emptiness the students felt once NYU cut off the electricity and their access to the internet. At that point, their will to fight was on its last legs. It was all downhill from there. I can hear it already: “You got suspended from college for what? You are kidding, right?”
To sum up: “a big failure marked by muddled thinking and incoherent goals, and completed with a total lack of any progress towards the laughably unrealistic set of ‘demands’ the protesters set forth.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: The beginning of the end.
Plus, the “movement” earns widespread mockery and derision for its efforts: “The general consensus right now among the student body is that they are a bunch of idiots.”
And “This is not Students for a Democratic Society. This is – ooooh – the Take Back NYU! campaign. Take back NYU? From whom? Klingons? Are aliens manipulating the film class syllabus?”
When you start your list of demands by declaring “an occupation of this space” you can’t expect people to take you seriously.
Sad. It doesn’t even make for a good Dog Day Afternoon
