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Warpy

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5. I'm waiting to see if there are similar demos in Florida
Fri Mar 31, 2023, 12:19 PM
Mar 2023

now that the heavy hand of government censorship has fallen on all institutions of learning, from kindergarten through grad school. Then again, it's Florida, too hot and muggy all the time for many people to develop that sort of ambition.

The whole thing was rather tame by today's standards but it was enough to alarm the Greatest and the Silents into voting Republican for the rest of their lives, something confirmed for them when those of us of a certain vintage got out and started to break every rule that had been laid out for us.

It's hard to explain to people who weren't there just how regimented the 1950s were and why the 60s produced such an explosion in the popular culture. To them, the Free Speech Movement was both incomprehensible and tame, maybe a little quaint. They don't get how earthshaking it was even for those of us too young to participate and on the other coast who were reading about it in pinko magazines on cheap paper like The Nation and The Realist.

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Hope all dweller Mar 2023 #1
Thank you! Tansy_Gold Mar 2023 #2
You and your quotes were missed Warpy Mar 2023 #3
One of the reasons for the QFTD Tansy_Gold Mar 2023 #4
I'm waiting to see if there are similar demos in Florida Warpy Mar 2023 #5
Great Minds . . . . Tansy_Gold Mar 2023 #6
Very Interesting Times DemReadingDU Mar 2023 #7
Interesting . . . and Interestinger Tansy_Gold Mar 2023 #8
In the first Quarter of 2023, Apple added 1/2 TRILLION $ of market capitalization bucolic_frolic Apr 2023 #9
But it's all on paper, right? Tansy_Gold Apr 2023 #10
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