Word: zinn
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...That comparison will always take place," Zinn says, "[but] it should be resisted. Take the high point of any history and then...try to measure everything against it and it will always seem too low. I don't think it makes sense to do that. It creates the wrong impression--and also is sort of discouraging...
...Zinn says it is unfair to expect student protests of the same magnitude of those in the '60s without a single, unifying cause to stir action...
...Zinn says holding today's activists to the standard of the '60s can create the wrong impression--that students today are more apathetic than their predecessors...
...There's nothing inherently active or passive in any student generation," Zinn says. "It all depends on what happens in the world...
...Zinn echoes Morgan, saying protestors shouldn't see the '60s as a standard for radicalism to which all later activists should be held...