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OT: American Politics

zeke said:
this isn't actually the case at all. it's like one square of lawn on campus.
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Jewish students have been advised not to attend campus cause it is not safe for them. and there are tons of videos out there of antisemitic chants, assaults, and general harassment of Jewish students. and open support of designated terrorist groups.

Columbia is asking students to stay off campus. and they are controlling access to all points on campus is my understanding.

not to mention an Israeli professor had his access to campus revoked after he indicated his intention to peacefully sit in the 'liberated zone'.
 
Wayward DP said:
Jewish students have been advised not to attend campus cause it is not safe for them. and there are tons of videos out there of antisemitic chants, assaults, and general harassment of Jewish students. and open support of designated terrorist groups.

Columbia is asking students to stay off campus. and they are controlling access to all points on campus is my understanding.

not to mention an Israeli professor had his access to campus revoked after he indicated his intention to peacefully sit in the 'liberated zone'.
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reality:

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Doesn't anyone there have a mid-term to study for or an essay due? Are either of those things still a thing in college anymore?

In my day, an encampment like that would include several kegs of beer.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Doesn't anyone there have a mid-term to study for or an essay due? Are either of those things still a thing in college anymore?

In my day, an encampment like that would include several kegs of beer.
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Always hilarious on mid-terms where you'd notice all these people you've never seen in class all semester.
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(who am I kidding...I was one of those people 🤣 )
 
oscarheyman said:
Always hilarious on mid-terms where you'd notice all these people you've never seen in class all semester.
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(who am I kidding...I was one of those people 🤣 )
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#metoo. I got a B- in a political science course where I only showed up for the first class of the semester, the mid-term, and the final exam. My term paper was a recycled essay from my last year of high school.
 
zeke said:
Ah yes university protests famously are a brand new thing that never happened in previous generations.
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Not to this extent, at least not since the Vietnam era. In the 80's when I went to college there were some protests but they were small and easy to ignore. The Friday night beer bashes attracted far bigger crowds than any anti-apartheid or anti-Reagan protest. We had a lot of Jewish students and a lot of Palestinian students and they all drank beer at the same campus parties.
 
zeke said:
Ah yes university protests famously are a brand new thing that never happened in previous generations.
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yep, this follows a long line of Columbia students protesting against civilian deaths in armed conflicts or other alleged ethnic cleansing campaigns.

for example, in just the past couple of years, we have seen Columbia students gather and form similar encampments, replete with pro-terrorist messaging, to protest against the Syrian civil war (way more dead Muslims than in Gaza); the ongoing Sudanese conflict (and potential genocide in Darfur); the persecution of Rohingyas; the persecution of Uighurs.

oh, shit, nevermind. it was only the Jews that they felt the need to start an encampment for. wonder why that is...
 
Personally, I think people are just responding to the lefts hypocrisy.

From 2017: When Is Speech Violence?

By all means, we should have open conversations and vigorous debate about controversial or offensive topics. But we must also halt speech that bullies and torments. From the perspective of our brain cells, the latter is literally a form of violence.
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From June 2023: ‘Your speech is violence’: the left’s new mantra to justify campus violence

The lesson took with students. A recent poll shows that 41 percent of college students now believe violence is justified to fight hate speech. At Cornell, a conservative speaker was shouted down, met with the common mantra that “your words are violence.” At Case Western, the student newspaper editorialized against university recognition of a pro-life group because its pro-life views are “inherently violent” and “a danger to the student body.” At Wellesley, student editors declared that it was time to shut down conservative speakers and that “hostility may be warranted.” They added, “The spirit of free speech is to protect the suppressed, not to protect a free-for-all where anything is acceptable, no matter how hateful and damaging.”
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So what is it? Is speech violence or not, and if it is, then these protests ARE violence and should be shut down.
 
zeke said:
You should probably delete this.
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Why? It's true. The most protest-y thing I did in college was attend a lecture about public policy given by Ralph Nader. I didn't give a shit about whether Reagan traded arms for hostages or from what South American country the school cafeteria sourced its coffee (because I didn't drink coffee and wouldn't have cared anyway) I didn't go to college to try and change the world and I certainly didn't go there to hang out on picket lines with the dirty hippies and hairy lesbians who were forever protesting against something or other. I just wanted to party with my buds, get laid, and watch sports like a normal 20-something male.
 
Wayward DP said:
do you think it is okay that these 'protesters' have been documented forcing Jewish students off campus solely because they are Jewish? (among other issues)
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Of course not. And anyone who is violent or threatens violence should be arrested (and have been). But for the record there hasn't actually been any violence.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Why? It's true. The most protest-y thing I did in college was attend a lecture about public policy given by Ralph Nader. I didn't give a shit about whether Reagan traded arms for hostages or from what South American country the school cafeteria sourced its coffee (because I didn't drink coffee and wouldn't have cared anyway) I didn't go to college to try and change the world and I certainly didn't go there to hang out on picket lines with the dirty hippies and hairy lesbians who were forever protesting against something or other. I just wanted to party with my buds, get laid, and watch sports like a normal 20-something male.
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I couldn't care less what you did or didnt do.
 
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