The Real Reason Behind Campus Protests

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

We have arguably not seen college protests like this since the 1960s. They are becoming more disruptive, more violent, and increasingly more extreme in their demands. So today, we are going to address some important questions…What is actually going on? Where is it actually taking place because it isn't just on University campuses? Why is it actually happening? And what, if anything, should be done about it?

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0:00.0	What is actually going on at all these college protests that are taking place across the country?
0:05.3	Obviously, one of the biggest ones that's gotten the most attention has been Columbia.
0:08.3	And there's been some interesting things going on there.
0:10.0	But that's not the only place to include some false reports coming out of Texas that the National Guard was called in.
0:16.4	Spoiler, that didn't actually happen.
0:18.8	But here's what we're going to go over today.
0:20.3	We're going to ask the
0:21.1	question, what are they actually protesting about? Because all of us have an idea of what we think
0:26.0	they want, but if you start to look at the list of demands from various protests, it can vary
0:30.7	greatly. So we're going to look at what do they actually want? What do we think is really
0:35.5	fueling this? And one of the most important things we're
0:38.5	going to discuss today is in a world where we're having politicians talking about forgiving
0:44.2	billions of dollars in student loans, I think we as taxpayers have right to ask the question.
0:50.0	Is this the sort of thing we want to be funding, whether it's in government subsidies, whether it's in forgiving of loans that the taxpayers backed? Is this the sort of thing we want to be funding, whether it's in government subsidies, whether
0:55.2	it's in forgiving of loans that the taxpayers backed?
0:57.6	Is this the sort of thing that we want to be subsidizing?
1:01.9	And if it is, is it fair enough to say, fine, if you want that sort of experience, you
1:06.8	pay for it, but you don't get to require the taxpayers to do it.
1:09.6	Because once you start to learn what sort of endowments these universities are sitting on,
1:14.3	combined with how much of your tax dollars they're getting,
1:17.3	you're probably going to be a little bit frustrated.
1:19.1	All of that and more coming up on this episode of making the argument brought to you by
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