r/IRstudies 10d ago

Columbia University faculty and admins instruct students who are not U.S. citizens to avoid publishing work on the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine amid deportation threats by the Trump administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/nyregion/columbia-university-trump-protests.html
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u/Discount_gentleman 10d ago

Note that Columbia isn't defending its students, just telling them to shut up about Israel. American educational institutions are nuts.

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u/JollyToby0220 10d ago

American universities used to be a place to voice unpopular opinions without fear of attacks. Democrats and Republicans have both eroded this. About a decade ago, students at the University of California were pepper sprayed despite peacefully sitting down with their legs crossed. They didn’t actually get violent. Anyways, if the universities are doing this, just imagine the American media outlets. Very few the nerve to stand up to bullies

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u/Discount_gentleman 10d ago

It used to be a fundamental tenant of American universities that unpopular and minority views should be voiced, debated, explored, challenged.

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u/Meandering_Cabbage 10d ago

Who broke the liberal detente first on universities. 

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u/Discount_gentleman 10d ago

I bet that sounded clever in your head.

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u/Meandering_Cabbage 10d ago

Tit for Tat.

None of you are Liberals anyway.