Watching/listening to what is going on at Columbia and other top tier private universities reminds me soooo much of what I saw on the streets after the first month of the Occupy Wall Street movement. I was working private security at the Deutsche Bank HQ at 60 Wall at the time, and what had started out as a genuine anti-corporatism movement devolved into mobs of young Millennials holding up cell phone cams and shouting in unison when they weren't doing drum circles at camp sites, refusing to bath, and shitting in the streets. This kind of stuff was the beginning of what we now call the "campus left," and the Palestinian solidarity movement is a direct offshoot of this kind of far left click, only it's Zoomers this time instead of Millennials. Same shit, different generation. I imagine Woodstock was very similar, but I never lived through the late 60's so I wouldn't know.

If history is any guide, a good 80-90% of these kids are going to sell out and put all of this stuff behind them after they graduate and go off to work for large companies as they ride the escalator to the upper middle class. The smart ones will scrub their social media history before doing so.