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...America’s intelligence community—has become the subject of more discussion than any other puke in Harvard’s history. One man’s vomit has become a symbol of all that is supposedly wrong with campus activism. Critics have accused the Progressive Puker of distracting Harvard from the issues, making the Left look bad, and denying the CIA its right to free speech...
April is a good month for protest. Roughly four years before the Progressive Puker opened his mouth, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) spent 21 days “occupying” Mass. Hall to compel Harvard to pay its workers a living wage. The criticism of PSLM’s act sounded a lot like the criticism of the Puker. The Crimson, which supported a living wage, argued that the occupation was “unjustified and inappropriate.” A majority of students supported a living wage, but less than a third supported the occupation. The University...
...PSLM’s exploits aren’t the most interesting example of what unpopular tactics can do. Forty-four years and three days before the Puker, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter that would become famous. He was not attacking Southern mobs or Northern politicians. The targets of King’s letter were the liberal ministers and rabbis who had previously been some of his most powerful supporters. When King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had moved into Birmingham to stage a civil disobedience campaign, the liberal clergy objected to King’s tactics...
...course, the Progressive Puker is not Martin Luther King, Jr., and vomiting is not sitting in. But King’s story reminds us that some of the most effective protests were originally considered radical to the point of being counterproductive...
Some argue that the Progressive Puker distracted the campus from the CIA’s brutal history. According to this line of thought, we were all sitting around politely discussing ways to end torture before some crazy radical came and puked in our faces. This argument has some legitimacy. Vomit is more newsworthy than the CIA’s history, just like PSLM’s sit in was more newsworthy than the poverty of Harvard’s workers and civil disobedience was more newsworthy than the brutality of Jim Crow. The fact that these tactics generate more discussion...