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In reply to the discussion: The 63-Year-Old Career Activist Among the Protesters at Columbia , cops call her a "professional agitator" [View all]OutNow
(871 posts)I'm older than Ms. Fithian. I remember when George Wallace and his generation of fascists labeled MLK and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as professional outside agitators stirring up trouble among the black population in the south and all over America. The FBI spied on MLK and worked overtime to discredit and harass him and his followers.
So here we go again. And a sizable percentage of Democrats are quick to affix the outside agitator label to anyone who is older that the current student protesters.
But we can learn from history. It took a long time to convince most people that the war in Vietnam was immoral. Supporters of LBJ and HHH tried their best to stop the protests and proclaimed that outside agitators were communists, etc.
Please listen to Phil Ochs - a popular 1960s folk singer. His song - Love Me I'm a Liberal. And learn.