Wolff Responds: Freedom of Speech, Gaza and students' right to protest (May 2, 2024) 

You are right, over blown as it is.

Yes, our younger generations need to express themselves and we need to listen to them. However, these students need to form opinions based upon investigation and understanding and poll after poll shows a great deal of ignorance concerning the Israel/Hamas war. Too many are chanting slogans with no real knowledge of what they mean. And too many, as has been shown, don’t even know why they are protesting. And shutting down the Universities for other students is simply wrong and not really peaceful protesting in my opinion.

The difference between these protesters and those who were protesting the Vietnam war is that these protesters have no skin in the game, with the exception of Palestinian protesters. During Vietnam, we were subject to the draft, and everyone was terrified of being sent to Vietnam. Many of us also opposed the war on moral grounds, but in retrospect it's quite clear that much if not most of the opposition to that war was grounded in self-centered reasons. We badly need a reinstatement of the draft so that young people and their friends & families start rebelling against all these U.S. wars of empire. Without a draft, these demonstrations will peter out, more likely sooner rather than later. The establishment ended the draft exactly for this reason, and they knew what they were doing. It's way past time that we change this. Of course it will be a big uphill battle, not only fighting the establishment, but fighting people morally opposed to the draft (at least those people have a legitimate argument, though I disagree with it), and fighting people who just selfishly don't want to be or have their friends & relatives subject to a draft, but it's what needs to be done to stop all this war-making.

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Not only are the students giving us a lesson in how to behave but a glimpse of a better future should they survive this global madness 🙏

He's an excellent teacher with a golden heart. Keep an open mind and you'll learn much. We've been listening for years and he's literally changed our lives.

Add they were fighting for abortion rights.

Gotta make america great again

When was this murderous colonial empire great?

@@roberthornack1692 Still is great, bub, even if TEMPORARILY infiltrated and hamstrung by users. Americas list of accomplishments way too long to put here. I'm busy.