{"id":4541,"date":"2018-10-31T16:41:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:22:35","slug":"why-are-there-so-few-activists-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/31\/why-are-there-so-few-activists-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are there so few activists on campus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4528\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/103118-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4528\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/103118-3-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"Why are there so few activists on campus?\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why are there so few activists on campus?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When you see an injustice, there are basically two ways of trying right it: 1) try to correct that instance of injustice: feed a homeless person, or perhaps even help them get to a soup kitchen, or even help them find a job and a home. 2) try to address the systemic social problems that cause an injustice such as widespread homelessness: expensive health care, unemployment, inequity in schools, or a social safety net full of holes. Path #1 requires generosity and is hard to scale up to solve widespread social ills. Path #2 requires a lot of struggle for slow changes you may not see in your lifetime, and is therefore hard to convince people to undertake. It&#8217;s possible that BC&#8217;s focus on path #1 leads people on path #2 to attend other schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you see an injustice, there are basically two ways of trying right it: 1) try to correct that instance of injustice: feed a homeless person, or perhaps even help them get to a soup kitchen, or even help them find a job and a home. 2) try to address the systemic social problems that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/31\/why-are-there-so-few-activists-on-campus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are there so few activists on campus?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}