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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maelstrom of political violence. I also had the sense that the COCA's were having a hell of a time waving around guns and scaring the hell out of people. Many students who joined the Red Guard or Hitler's Brown Shirts had the same pleasures. But it seemed like a good cause...
...just like to point out that COCA is the first word in Coca-Cola. As in the phrase "Coca-Colonialism," in which zealous of financially sound institutions use media manipulation to do gross disservice to the world's poorer countries. As in money-backed misinformation. As in guerilla theatre." Or, more likely, as in "Lampoon pranksters with a political mask." Ah, excuse me, a politically-correct mask...
Instead, it became clear that COCA was, frankly, engaged in spreading specious and patently false propaganda. Don't be misled by its use of words like "self-determination"--COCA members are interested in no such thing...
...course, the fact that COCA seems not to have weighed such moral ambiguities and complexities in their superficial analysis of the ongoing crises in Central America should come as a surprise to no one. After all, its existence, like that of most other activist organizations on this campus, relies less on reasoned discourse between its members than on lock-step conformity to a single viewpoint and the drowning out of opposing beliefs...
...really like the lectures," I heard one student say. "They make me feel guilty." Lectures do seem designed to produce guilt. This sense of guilt is not productive or constructive, the kind that sparks a re-examination of societal structures and behavior. This guilt is self-complacent, rooted in the fact that we Harvard students were born privileged and "those people" weren't. And that's as far as social reflection goes...