Rutgers University Students Now Complaining of ‘Protest Fatigue’
Many more Americans — both on and off the nation’s campuses — will be suffering “protest fatigue” before 2024 is over.
As the week started, Rutgers University joined the long list of institutions whose campuses have been taken over by anti-Israel/pro-Hamas demonstrators.
The tents were set up in the heart of Rutgers-New Brunswick on Monday afternoon during a protest march announced by the university’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a political organization involved in student-led protests demanding a cease-fire on college campuses across the nation.
The students are part of a growing movement of college students occupying campus spaces and asking university leadership to divest from Israeli corporate and cultural interests.
The Rutgers encampment took place peacefully and without interference from university administration on the greens on Voorhees Mall, a member of the group and junior on campus who did not want to be identified said in an interview.
“We will not leave Voorhees Mall the same way Palestinians in Gaza refuse to leave their homes until our demands are met,” the Rutgers-SJP group said in a press release, referring to university administrators’ “not acknowledging” Palestinian students.
Legal Insurrection readers may recall we covered Rutges’ experience with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) earlier this year. Masked SJP members listed demands for the campus during a press conference in front of a sign that said, “Rutgers profits off of Palestinian suffering,” and wearing the traditional Arab headscarf, the keffiyeh. That was after the student government enabled SJP antics by forking over $20,000 for teach-ins and conferences.
However, the tide may be turning against the hate-campers. Rutgers students now complain of “protest fatigue” and want the encampment gone.
Atan, an information technology major, had no sooner stepped outside the Art Library in Voorhees Hall when he caught his first glimpse of several tents assembled by pro-Palestinian protestors.
“We walked out and they were all banging on drums and yelling,” he said. “It used to be a nice campus, but now when you walk around, it’s just a bunch of protests and people yelling.”
Several students who spoke to TAPinto New Brunswick on Tuesday said they have had enough of protests and marches that spread over the College Avenue campus following Hamas’ attacks on Israeli citizens on Oct. 7 and Israel’s military response.
…One student even said he and his friends are experiencing “protest fatigue” because not only have spaces such as Voorhees Mall and Brower Commons been occupied by rallies organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and other groups, but there has even been a smattering of protests from Rutgers faculty union members speaking out against proposed cuts in the English department that could result in several adjunct faculty members not being rehired in the fall.
'Protest Fatigue': Some Rutgers Students are Tired of Protests, Want Encampment Gone https://t.co/COdYb1exiO
— TAPinto Madison (@MadisonTapinto) May 1, 2024
I project that many more Americans—both on and off the nation’s campuses—will be suffering from “protest fatigue” before 2024 is over.
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Worse to come. With worthless degrees and huge college debt they will be suffering “barista fatigue” working at Starbucks.
Perhaps the budding baristas can carry their demands over to Starbucks.
I am sure that the woke corporation will fall all over themselves to pay student loans, free meal delivery to the barista’s communal tent on the street outside Starbucks, divestment from all capitalist corporations and countries, and increased pay with unlimited PTO.
Spray those masks with skunk extract, when the voluntarily remove the masks take their pictures.
There should be a database of every one of these protesters so that employers know who not to hire. Even Starbucks will not want these losers.
Let the little commies suffer what they wrought. They will never earn more than minimum wage because they aren’t worth anything, thanks to Progressive brainwashing.
Why do you think they keep increasing the minimum wage? To buy the votes of fools.
How many are really students at the college? Seems likely most are imported soros communist agitators.
At least they all have matching green and grey tents to live in like homeless people next to the off ramp. I wonder where all those matching tents that suddenly appeared out of nowhere came from? It’s almost like this entire thing is coordinated.
The third Harry Potter book contains a spell that lets you make tents out of pallets of bricks.
The ones with protest fatigue are the ones at uni to get an education in a marketable skill. Like, for example, information technology.
We need college graduates with marketable skills. Otherwise, how will the loans for the advanced underwater basket weaving students be paid?
Marketable skills equate to the payer class.
All those useless majors, created specifically for dumb asses, should be eliminated.
Those majors were devised so they could get enough minority students enrolled. That in turn keeps the justice department off of their ass. With only offering real majors, the student body would be overwhelmingly, white and Asian.
If this whole crisis leads the payer class to say no, firmly, it could have a good outcome. Payment fatigue.
Colleges are the facilitators of some of the greatest wealth transfers, through their financial aid offices. Some students are charged an inflated price, others are heavily subsidized. The scale is massive for them; some families’ lifetime savings are wiped out and the student put in lifelong debt; others typically admitted on an easier standard are gifted partial or full rides. The government mainly picks the winners and losers through the FAFSA process, government support for these NGO’s (college financial aid offices) operating this taking and wealth transfer. This year they’ve decided to punish the middle class (i.e. payer class) with more than one kid in college by not giving them any help with the simultaneous costs.
The colleges are turning our society upside down. They are an adversary in our society. The middle class needs their own form of protest, but more effective than these campus demonstrators. The demonstrators might be useful though in weakening that adversary.
These modern day “68ers” don’t have any decent music to help them along.
But they have catchy slogans. From the river to the sea, it hurts when I pee!
Maybe there will be some new slogans by convention time in August. No music though.
If it hurts when they pee, there is medication for that. More than likely to relieve the drip, drip, drip of gonorrhea.
The Henny Youngman prescription is still indicated.
I had that very thought.
Somebody else who might get protest fatigue: Democrats, especially Biden and his flat-footed minions.
Note how desperately Biden is trying to NOT say anything about this. “Well…um…let’s talk about solar panels. I used solar panels to help Captain America fight the Nazis. True story.”
Likewise his press people are floundering. “Um…well…um…the president is, um…monitoring the situation. Yeah, that’s the ticket.”
Unlike the 2020 riots, Biden can’t just sit back with a smug smile. He’s HMFIC now and he has to be able to at least say something coherent about this. But no matter who he supports he’s gonna have to piss off a bunch of voters.
Saying “something coherent” is not in Mr. Biden’s wheelhouse.
The Being There presidency.
I have had a couple of disturbing thoughts –
First: what we are seeing is our political leadership -and their followers- of the future. While statistically a minority, they’re a vocal minority, and, being educated (sic) these student will form a substantial part of the policy making elite. They have been taught the tactics of shouting down their opponents and have NOT been taught any form of analytical thinking or reasoned debate. They are emotionally based, and purely focused on ‘the individual’. Our future as a country is going to be an irrational one…
Second: Israel must prepare herself for a future without American support. I am ashamed of this but it would seem that the handwriting is graffitied on the University wall.
These poor dearies are probably not getting good, restful sleep. Maybe Mike Lindell will stop by and distribute pillows.
I doubt it:
“In the wake of accruing over $200,000 in unpaid rent, MyPillow, led by Trump loyalist CEO Mike Lindell, was hit with a court-ordered eviction from its warehouse in Shakopee, Minnesota.”
They should get David Hogg pillows instead.
They can sleep soundly on their comfy rainchecks.
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh,
I was at Camp Intifada.
Making signs, screaming slogans,
doing yoga, reading poems,
Looks like we caused a ruckus
cops are not bringing Starbucks
Life’s unfair, we’re oppressed now
Got arrested, got the blues
I blame Jews
Ha. Well done.
But now I have that tune in my head the rest of the day.
Could be worse; I’m glad it wasn’t a parody of American Pie.
I give you multiple thumbs up LOL
I sang your post.
fjb assured them
dont worry
you can file for unemployment insurance
I think a large segment not discussed is the vast number of college kids not protesting and most of them are tired and fatigued by the constant disruption and negative focus on their school. I always feel like it breaks down into thirds ; 1/3 who go all in for oppressing others and like feeling powerful by attacking another group as less virtuous or human; 1/3 who stand up to those bullies, and 1/3 who do nothing at all and aren’t sure they agree with the oppression but don’t want to stick their necks out because they don’t want to be targeted. My guess is that over 2/3 of college students are not Jew haters; and do not want Israel to be destroyed and if you gave them even 5 minutes of basic facts they would be very much pro-Israel. The other loser 1/3 who enjoy feeling powerful and virtuous; are not only into antisemitism but they hate the USA; and that is likely the much bigger problem. COVID brought virtue signaling to new heights that think the gen Z kids have absorbed and made part of their identity.
Poor babies, guess none ever had a real job
48% of arrested at Columbia and City College NY were unaffiliated with the schools.