This is one of the things I think that is the reason I really like devils panties. The whole diary format allows for funny sometimes, opinion, politics, and just a nuance for things you see. Every so often I see something on how anything is not enough or pointless in some way. Voting, protesting, boycotting. I love the way the artist can convey things with the comic.
I don’t mean to downplay the incredibly violent response that the Civil Rights protests were met with one iota, but the survivors of the Kent State Massacre might object to the insinuation that student anti-war protests were a fun and light-hearted affair.
I think the mom was just supposed to be talking about her experiences in this case. Its possible a convo like that took place and her mom related it to her but its also possible she took license to create it with her mom as a character.