The Revolution will be Twittered!

[redcactusflower]

Gawker has a hilarious story today about NYU Students staging an occupation of the school's food court demanding "fiscal transparency" and relief for Gaza.

Brothers and sisters of the proletariat, you must at this very moment drop your bacon egg and cheese wraps and rush down to the Marketplace at Kimmel Center, where a dashing group of Zapata-like

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[watchreader]

To me, it's the "group of attractive young sexually available rebels" that seals the whole thing.

And while I agree with your assessment that protesting is, for the most part, really stupid and pointless, I'm not sure I'd agree with your reasoning why. Although then again, at Tech we didn't really have protests. No one was politically active at all really. The only protests that occurred were of the religious variety

[redcactusflower]

Oh gosh, I had forgotten about all the "wear this color to show solidarity" days. What gets me about the uselessness of college protests is that your only audience is the same couple thousand people you see on campus every day, and it's not like they didn't see a similar activist thingy for another cause last week. After a while I became numb to all the booths outside the cafeteria advertising the thirdworld/orphan/incurable disease/enviro cause/international service trip of the day.

[watchreader]

What also really got me were the "information campaigns" about things that no one could really do anything about. Even though I belong to some of the big ones (Liberty in North Korea), I have to admit they are pretty lame.

"Bring Liberty to North Korea!"
"How?"
"Um... I guess if we talk about it enough.... it'll happen?"
"I'm pretty sure just informing people isn't going to bring liberty to North Korea."
"Yea, but if we TALK about it, we can INFORM people about North Korea and then make them DEPRESSED about it. Progress!"

[wmk06]

Isn't Gawker delightfully bitchy? I do enjoy their presence on my procrastination roster.

This is actually the second ridiculous protest NYC has seen in the past few months. The first one (at New School, which I kind of think of as a fake school even though it's actually not. But the one person I know who went there got a B.A. in Gender and Sexuality Studies, which sounds about as made up as American Studies or Museum Studies...) brought much hilarity.

[redcactusflower]

Gawker is quickly becoming the sarcastic sunshine of my life. I also love when Jezebel makes fun of women's magazine covers.

I saw the article about the New School too - that one was funnier I think.

[riannawolf]

this article was rather amusing, and yes the kids are being a bit ridiculous, but hopefully they'll grow up a bit. reading the comments afterwards, i always wonder why i bother because i am always amazed at the pettiness of people in comments to articles. at least this time they were articulate and full of vocab words...and not txt speak and regional slang, and that was refreshing, but what is always sad is that they are all accusing each other of bias and hate-and they are all displaying it. and i would have to say, that coming from a school where many students did in fact come from wealthy families, and having to deal with that stereotype as one coming from a normal family and having many friends and roommates who were struggling to be there, that the sheer ignorance and love of stereotype by even seemingly educated individuals is just saddening.