{"id":476,"date":"2016-06-27T14:32:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/?p=476"},"modified":"2016-06-27T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T18:32:39","slug":"a-students-perspective-on-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/week-6\/a-students-perspective-on-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Student&#8217;s Perspective on Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Friday, I was surprised and alarmed to learn that the United Kingdom had voted to leave the European Union, especially because of the xenophobic implications this vote had. As the morning continued and voter demographics were released, I was dismayed to learn that a majority of young voters had voted that the UK should remain in the EU&#8211;and their voice had been silenced by older generations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This event, in my opinion, highlights exactly why social justice movements in college campuses are so important. When college students stand together for a cause they believe in, it is in an attempt to shape the world that they will inherit,often in a way that makes the world more equitable and just. College protests allow for students&#8217; voices to be heard, even if they are not represented in elections. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I was surprised and alarmed to learn that the United Kingdom had voted to leave the European Union, especially because of the xenophobic implications this vote had. As the morning continued and voter demographics were released, I was dismayed to learn that a majority of young voters had voted that the UK should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/week-6\/a-students-perspective-on-brexit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Student&#8217;s Perspective on Brexit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}