Don't fuck with old hippies. Half of them have been on the front line of protest action since the 60s, and the other half are Vietnam vets. They will kick your ass.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

this woman is an HIV researcher, which I think is a step or two harder than 'old hippie'.

Given her age, it's reasonable to assume she didn't just become an AIDS researcher in 2015 and finish out her carreer or whatever. this woman has already been on the front lines of a genocide. remember, there wasn't initially funding for HIV research, so this woman has done the not-evil version of "fuck the rules, im doing science." on people she probably had to have human relationships with, who were probably in-on-it and absolutely comrades, and watched a statistically significant (because it needed to be, for the results to be useful, and that was the whole point) number of them die, possibly while knowing everything she and the rest of her team/org/whatever were doing was an incredible long shot.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

If she's a Berkeley professor, and can pull a head slam like that at 70+ years old, I'd say odds are 80% hippie vs maybe 20% mid 70s punk. Tell me she wouldn't look right at home at a Grateful Dead concert, or rockin out to the Clash for that matter.

Plus, everyone who's been to college knows that hippies make the best professors.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago

Not only that, I'd bet top dollar that the nazi twat has dismantled funding for the research she been fighting for her entire career.

Guy's lucky it didn't take a proctologist with an electrician license to retrieve the stun gun.