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yeah there's really no need to argue here, but i think that if you're looking at number of orgs involved, it's probably more similar than you would expect (the intensity of individual member engagement probably does differ). campus activists love an open letter to the admin. if you're looking at national attention/buzz generated, there's no contest. a lot of this comes down to the fact that when a bunch of harvard or stanford students write op-eds and letters to the admin or do sit-ins protesting engagement with saudi arabia or russia (another one that was a big wave of student engagement), etc it's not a national news story.

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he said "curious silence from the woke-nut gallery on the horrors from the House of Saud" and then when you showed him cases of SA being criticized within universities, he said it was lip service. Frankly it's difficult to take the original criticism seriously or even on good faith when there's apparently no way to be "right," whether you protest SA or not.

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