.@Wendy_Pearlman made the point clear the other day: Syria is not safe. For me, the evidence of integration is especially important. Migrants and refugees face steep hurdles to integrate in Denmark. They do the work.
Denmark can protect them, they just don’t want to.
May 4, 2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of the massacre at Kent State. I teach it every year, so that it's lessons and warnings continue to reverberate through our national collective memory. A short thread1/n
There are any number of places to find details of May 4th, in which 4 students were fatally shot and 9 students wounded by the Ohio National Guard. And @KentState maintains a fascinating collection of photographs, films, and audio testimonies. 2/n
But what are the lessons I teach my students? What does a student protest against the bombing of Cambodia, and the fear of being drafted to fight in a war you believe unjust, on a campus tucked away in NE Ohio, teach us about ourselves and our country in 2020? 3/n