Here r a few examples of "student protests" tinged with violence, whether by themselves or response by authorities. Just to point out why we need to step back & think first of what the students are really protesting against - are they protesting against the right or wrong issue?
(1) Autherine Lucy and the campus violence at University of Alabama, 1956 to block Lucy's entry as a "coloured". Marshall et al cdnt prove legally that Uni was behind the violence, but theres no report of students protesting the violence that took over the campus.
(2) the famous 1968 Paris demo started as a student demo at Nanterre Uni ag ban on male& female students sleeping together. Ultimately uni was shut down leading Sorbonne - the "liberal" - joining massively. This escalated with workers taking the chance to negotiate "better pay".
having obtained their wage demands, workers "left" the students to do their thing, and protests ultimately died off. '68 produced a lot of liberal literature& cinema, and a host of "youthful radicals" like Tariq Ali (of Pak extraction but a Brit Marxist aligned to 4th internatnl)
(3) Michigan State Uni has come up on the news a few times since first in 1999 students protesting "violently" ag their basketball team losing in NCAA final 4, in 2005 ag another loss, (in '98 for ban on alcohol in tailgate parties), as well as on win - for football win in 2013.
(4) similar stories r reported for Uni of Maryland, in 2001, 2002, 2010: the first two ag losing NCAA final 4, the last one for a win. Important to note the last one was subdued: uni had imposed rule that any caught misbehaving after sports events wd be "expelled".
(5) compared to these there wr student protests that wr not against measures to protect& legitimize threatened people - like CAA to protect non-Muslims who fled jihadi onslaught in AFPAKBD: ppl can compare the motives and issues and judge.
(6) The small "white rose" group of students from Munich Uni, primarily around the siblings Scholls - who were beheaded by guillotine after exposure and capture in 1943. But their leaflets wr smuggled out by Helmut von Moltke - a key ldr of the secret mil oppn to Hitler.
(7) the "May 4th" first modern Chinese student demo in 1919 at then "Peking". This was semi-violent movement ag alleged collaboration of post-imperial Chinese republic with "imperialist" interests at Versailles post WW1. Its suppression prompted secret founding of communist party
(8) compared to that, the diff between the 1966 "student movement" that launched the "cultural revolution" persecuting ppl purely based on Maoist insanity was state protected one way violence on citizens by student "red guard" goonism.
(9) when Chinese students protested in 1989, primarily ag removal of sympathetic party chair,& ag endemic corruption and outrages of the communist rule - they were treated far less softly than the "May 4th". They wr litreally crushed under tanks/shot/remains hosed down drains.
(10) in 1999 Iranian students protested the shutting down of Salaam which had persistently exposed the corruption and depravity of mullah led regime of post-revolution Iran and persecution of its staff. Their protest was violently suppressed. rferl.org/a/Iran_Student…
Iranian student/youth observed the 1999 student protest anniversary in 2009, leading to similar clerical scum regimes violence. I have been told that 2019 violent protests had a partial contribution from same sentiment and continued resentment.
(11) Indian students had protested in massive ways in 1940's - some violent -intensifying ag initial Congi tirade ag INA and then Brit attempt to court-martial the captive INA soldiers. They protested even going ag "mainstream" nationalistas wishes but ultimately ag imperialists.
whats most insidious with current anti-CAA "student" protests is that its directed ag legitimization of refugees fleeing religious persecution and they r angry only because the law officially recognizes the fact of jihadi violence ag non-Muslims.
this is not a student protest ag alleged corruption, imperialist invasion, persecution inside the country, but ag a law specifically to do with refugee non-citizen non-Muslims frm jihad dominated countries - whose plight was never worthy of these "students" protests before.
its a peculiarly cynical, and violent view against the non-msulim minorities subject to arbitrary genocide level treatment in Muslim majority countries - and I can't see it as genuine student movement: It is more like Hitler youth, or Chinese "cultural revolutionary" kids.
