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> To be clear, you're comparing a protest movement across thousands of campuses and millions of students to one spanning tens and thousands, respectively.

No we're talking thousands of campuses. Here's a map if you'd like: https://www.palestineiseverywhere.com/

Duke is walking out. UCLA got attacked by counter protestors. UT Austin's in the news for police brutality against students. There are active encampments in Stanford, ALL of the UCs, Cal Poly, all of the ivy league schools. As of May 11 there was an estimated 2,900 arrests across 57 campuses.

Go to your nearest university and you're sure pressed to at least find stickers or artwork if not an active encampment. Sorry to say, but you're out of touch



> we're talking thousands of campuses

Where are you seeing thousands? It's hundreds globally per your source. The Vietnam War protests were thousands in the country, and that's not by counting stickers but mass protests and campus-wide shutdowns.

> As of May 11 there was an estimated 2,900 arrests across 57 campuses

Yes, thousands and tens. That's a big deal. But it's not on the scale of the Vietnam War protests. Which makes sense--we're not drafting our kids to go die in Gaza! (And the economy is doing well.)

In any case, the argument that this is relevant to Sweetgreen's business requires a little more to stand on. Certainly their Q1 results seem to dispute the hypothesis; the problem isn't growth, it's costs.


Only around 2 thousand students were arrested for the Vietnam protests in 1970.

It's important to remember that student protests are always unpopular. Only about 11% of Americans thought the Guard was too rough on student protestors at Kent state when police shot at crowds and killed 4 students. 58% of Americans thought the National Guard should've been more rough

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-palm-beach-post-campu...


> Only around 2 thousand students were arrested for the Vietnam protests in 1970

12,000 were arrested over a matter of days in 1971 [1].

Again, these protests don't need to be comparable in size to Vietnam's to be legitimate. Focussing on that narrative is a dead end. When it comes to Sweetgreen's business, I've gone from thinking the CEO should stay out of politics to suspecting he may be resonating better with Sweetgreen's actual customers than I initially gave him credit for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_protests




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