You're probably right.
I was responding to the comments earlier that they were "doing it wrong" and wouldn't be remembered positively like the earlier protesters.
I wanted to point out that if these protests do end up linked to some shift in policy and are viewed as having accomplished something, then the memory of them will be edited to be positive - just like happened in the past.
I'm not sure they're "doing it wrong", since it seems to be note-for-note a repetition of the 60's protests and an attempt to cosplay the 60's anti war movement.
The difference is that many more students have a dog in the race that is directly opposed to the protestors own opinions - i.e. the Jewish students and their PoV. And there is no draft to make Palestine a gripping domestic issue.
True.
But those things weren't separate.
Opinion changed over time and the protests started long before the population's opinion shifted.
It was all part of many things going on and feeding into each other.
Just look at US opinion towards Israel and Palestine. It isn't where it was 20 years ago.
The protests are part of this back and forth of public opinion.
Not very different than what is going on now.
There are people promising to end the war, there are people promising it would never happen, and there is a wild amount of misinformation about what is going on there.
Part of the transition was the lack of an easy win by the US, when domestic public opinion had been led to believe the mass of the VN population supported the Saigon regime and the US intervention. That led to a pendulum effect where Hanoi was then presented as "the real VN patriots".
Everything cartoonishly over-simplified of course.
