Nearly 60 years ago, Jack Weinberg, a U.C. Berkeley student whose arrest spurred the era-defining Free Speech Movement, made a simple, somewhat tossed-off, comment to a reporter: "Don’t trust anyone over 30." In the process, he helped further ignite a generational wedge that sticks with us today, marking college campuses and the young people they contain as the initiators and supporters of a host of social movements, from anti-war protests to Occupy Wall Street.
In the 2020s, there’s a new student movement afoot...online. (And in some cases, it's the main thing keeping college students on Facebook.) Read more...
More about Facebook, Memes, Activism, Meme Culture, and College Life
from Mashable https://mashable.com/article/college-meme-groups-student-dissent/
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