In 1956, "In God We Trust" became the official motto of the United States. It formally replaced "E pluribus unum", which was long the de facto motto of the US.
Nah, they just continue on as normal, believing the lie that he's a "political prisoner" (Trump's words actually) and that the charges were bullshit concocted by the Democrats to put him away.
...........a customer of mine spewed this nonsense off at me just yesterday after the news broke, and I died a little inside.
Students have always been persecuted, throughout human and US history.
It was like that in the French Revolution era, it was like that in the 60s–70s, and it's like that in this era.
My point is that students being persecuted is by no means a thing unique to this era; it's because college has been and still is a place where people are encouraged to think and governments have never liked that.
It's relevant because it seemed like you were saying that students being prosecuted for protests and other things was a recent phenomenon. I was merely saying that's not the case.
Honestly it sounds like you may be trying to make excuses for these attacks on student protestors by claiming that they’re an inevitable force of nature. That it’s always been this way and always will be. Nothing to see here, move along. Hopefully that’s not what you’re trying to do.
Not at all. I'm not making excuses for either party. I was merely under the impression that you were saying prosecution of students was a relatively modern phenomenon, and was stating it was not.
And no, the state is not persecuting students for thinking, it’s persecuting them for the same reason it’s persecuting Yeshitela and Assange: for expressing things it would rather not have expressed.
Both are true, honestly. Universities have often been hotbeds of alternative viewpoints, and these are largely caused by said universities naturally having cultures of free intellectual thought. Establishments throughout history have generally not liked the resulting alternative viewpoints and thus have prosecuted them. For one reason or another, for good or ill. I'm making no judgement here one way or the other.; I'm merely making a statement.
Edit: Welp, that was weird. Not sure what I thought was Uncanny Valley–esque about this image. Don't see it now, but I did then. Fucking weird-ass brain...
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