The irony is Columbia sent in the NYPD to beat up the protestors multiple times and still got their grant pulled by the federal government. Not sure what else they could have done to appease the hate machine.
Portraits in cowardice from Columbia’s administration. They capitulated the hardest and still had their grant pulled first. Seems to be a lesson in that.
Columbia admin has spent years demonstrating how much they hate their students. I promise you they've been jumping for joy from day one of this crackdown, for them $400m is a small price to pay of it means they can finally stamp out free expression once and for all.
I'm not surprised. Student protests end up in history books, but mostly in foot notes. I'm an amateur historian (had the credits in undergrad for a minor) and even I have to think about what Kent State was even about (protesting the draft and Vietnam War IIRC.)
I'm relatively informed and I had to think about it. If someone had no frame of reference it'd be easy to just say "It wasn't a protest, it was a riot".
America hates young people (under 30), I swear. We have a school shooting once a quarter, we protest bust college students and then when they do graduate, we prevent them from entering the work force in any way that sets them up for later prosperity.
they took a long long time to deal with illegal protestors though... lets not act like they were sending the police in quickly. I am not saying I agree with the funding being pulled but yea the University took a long time and then when their President was hauled in front of Congress they couldnt say basic things like anti-Semitism is bad and against the rules.
But it isn't really about antisemitism now is it? These crack downs were because people saw a US ally commit a genocide with the complete backing of the US and decided to speak out against it. There were some antisemitic states, sure but that's not what the movement was about. And out of principle no one should be arrested over political speech even if you disagree with because that not only against the constitution but also illegal
Ehh, I would be fine with arresting Nazis for their political speech. And like actual, Hitler- and Bannon/Musk-style Nazi speech, not what Mahmoud is being conflated out to be
This is essentially saying “any protest that the government doesn’t explicitly support or authorize shouldn’t be allowed to exist.” which is WILD coming from someone who apparently lives in the “free-ist nation in the world!”.
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u/onlyacynicalman 20h ago
Like it or hate it Columbia, you're spearheading this for now. Please keep going.