Imagine them wanting equal protection under the law!!! Crazy isn’t it?
Hey, where are the people who were so concerned about violence speaking out against the masked mob that attacked the protestors with clubs and mace?
Protests on college campuses.
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Hey, where are the people who were so concerned about violence speaking out against the masked mob that attacked the protestors with clubs and mace?
It's almost like certain topics are being blocked in a way.
Perhaps he should be. Florida hasn’t had this problem. Columbia once they decided to deal with it, it was over in a couple of hours.
Iran offers scholarships to students expelled from US, European universities over anti-Israel protests: report
Iran's Shiraz University leader praises anti-Israel agitators at American and European campuses, offers scholarships to expelled students
I will offer to buy their one way ticket to IranIran offers scholarships to students expelled from US, European universities over anti-Israel protests: report
Iran's Shiraz University leader praises anti-Israel agitators at American and European campuses, offers scholarships to expelled studentswww.foxnews.com
I think amongst the biggest errors that some of these campus admins are making is allowing encampments. The u Chicago pres called encampments violence. I think that’s accurate. Similar to blocking highways. It’s a siege. A violent act. Allowing that at any level is violently provocative. Taking over a building is violence. That’s why the admins deserve to be replaced. This is the same problem at a smaller scale as the blm 2020 protests. In blue run cities, if the cause is adjacent or in line with blue thought, it is given a long leash. That’s a problem.
Another mistake, of course, is including activism driven prog left political litmus test statements to get into college. recruit based on that and you get what we are seeing today. There’s an ideology problem that’s very common on campuses.
When the 2016 election happened, many treated the next day like a funeral. Leadership pointed people to support resources and made solemn statements. Over the years, demands from prog left faculty members to release statements opposing -insert gop thing we don’t like here- have been common. It has been common throughout my career for it to be seen as ok to make fun of gop, which worsened through the 2010s, but there was a dramatic shift after 2016. Really before that, codified with Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” strategy.
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I don’t understand how any protesters, marchers, demonstrators are allowed to cover their faces!
I guess I’m also looking back at Antifa and blm as well
I think if the “ no face” covering law that was enforced against the kkk was enforced now that maybe it would be a deterrent to these things!!
Note, I am not talking about peaceful, non distruptive type of things
There should be no anonymity allowed for what’s taking place now!
I guess I’m also looking back at Antifa and blm as well
I think if the “ no face” covering law that was enforced against the kkk was enforced now that maybe it would be a deterrent to these things!!
Note, I am not talking about peaceful, non distruptive type of things
There should be no anonymity allowed for what’s taking place now!
Yeah. For God’s sake be careful. Don’t get hurt by rioters and protesters who support terrorists in the eco friendly Mecca of tolerance called California. Lmfao
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Excellent article from Ben Sasse. A breath of fresh air in academia. A fairly dramatic contrast to UCLA and Columbia.
Great article. “Speech is not violence. Silence is not violence. Violence is violence”.
Yes. And, accurately pins the problem on prog left identity politic infection in academia. You can see the difference in leadership with Columbia and UCLA both allowing terrible behavior from the prog left side so we can hear their grievances and also several schools capitulating to ridiculous demands. A few quotes:
Appeasing mobs emboldens agitators elsewhere. Moving classes online is a retreat that penalizes students and rewards protesters. Participating in live-streamed struggle sessions doesn’t promote honest, good-faith discussion. . .
Rather than engage a wide range of ideas with curiosity and intellectual humility, many academic disciplines have capitulated to a dogmatic view of identity politics. Students are taught to divide the world into immutable categories of oppressors and oppressed, and to make sweeping judgements accordingly. With little regard for historical complexity, personal agency or individual dignity, much of what passes for sophisticated thought is quasireligious fanaticism. [yep. We have achieved a critical mass of far left fanatics in gov and academia]
The results are now on full display....
Young men and women with little grasp of geography or history—even recent events like the Palestinians’ rejection of President Clinton’s offer of a two-state solution—wade into geopolitics with bumper-sticker slogans they don’t understand. For a lonely subset of the anxious generation, these protest camps can become a place to find a rare taste of community. This is their stage to role-play revolution [LOL yes, LARPing]....
Teachers ought to be ushering students into the world of argument and persuasion. Minds are changed by reason, not force.
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Like I said. The Jewish folks getting attacked going to work and class had no protection, and nobody complained. Now that a protester is attacked the governor complains. It should be equal. This in a nutshell shows what's wrong with that state and the country.
I agree with you though. If they are non-violent and protesting within the law someone protesting Israel should get the same protection as those protesting slavery or supporting Trump. Shouldn't matter what the cause is.
We’ve set a precedent that people protesting for leftist causes are allowed to be disruptive, break things, harass and intimidate people, trash buildings, burn things, and then have their demands met. Vote blue gained a massive amount of money from their 2020 riots. Many on the left believe that protests need to be disruptive. Civil disobedience is part of their protest culture and it is a badge of honor to be arrested.
Also, it wasn’t that nobody complained. In schools like UF (Sasse), Jews were protected. In places like ucla and Columbia, they were not. The difference is who is in charge.
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100% agree with you here
Here's a good way to get rid of them. Use a bulldozer like clearing dead cows.
www.ndtv.com
Video: Cops Use Bulldozers To Remove Pro-Palestine Protesters At Amsterdam University
Student protests against Israel's assault on Gaza started from the universities in the US and have now spread to Europe.
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I wonder why the article starts: New Delhi-Here's a good way to get rid of them. Use a bulldozer like clearing dead cows.
Video: Cops Use Bulldozers To Remove Pro-Palestine Protesters At Amsterdam University
Student protests against Israel's assault on Gaza started from the universities in the US and have now spread to Europe.
I wasn't pointing fingers, mind you. But the way some threads are highlighted and others aren't is confusing. It doesn't happen to me over at the Iowa board, but it does here, but only on the anything but board.
And I said I wasn't pointing fingers; figured giving DMS an idea of what's happening might help him out if he chose to look into it.He didn’t say it wasn’t happening. He said he wasn’t doing it
Yep. I was suggesting he knows it’s happening. Sorry. Sometimes tone doesn’t come across on this well. Was intended to be mildly funny.
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This thread is a prime example--tornadoes, etc. show up under "normal threads", but not this particular thread.
It shows up under "Normal Threads" for me. If you happen to have the original poster on your ignore list, then it would not show up for you.
In that case this one probably doesnt show up for alot of folks.
You could be right, though it appears nobody cares anyway.In that case this one probably doesnt show up for alot of folks.
I'll just stay on the golf thread and be happy.
My kids both have protests on their campuses. The only people who they say are threatening are the police.
Here are pictures from my son's campus this week. The scary protestors, and the non-threatening police response.
My son captured pix of the cops with shotguns at the ready from the livestream. Those umbrellas must look really scary.
What are the umbrellas and gas masks for? Why are they wearing terrorist scarves? Given the disposition of the police, why aren’t they listening to law enforcement? Why are they wearing gloves? Why is there garbage strewn about everywhere? Why did the cops have to get the guy in white on to the ground? I’ve looked up the uc Irvine protests. Google the pics. They trashed the campus. They put tents on campus property. They had free Palestine flags with blood appearing red paint. They seized a campus building. They created barricades. They defaced property, writing inflammatory and false statements “genocide.” “Everything about Israel is illegal.” Unironically “massacre of innocent can never be justified .” “End apartheid”My kids both have protests on their campuses. The only people who they say are threatening are the police.
Here are pictures from my son's campus this week. The scary protestors, and the non-threatening police response.
My son captured pix of the cops with shotguns at the ready from the livestream. Those umbrellas must look really scary.
Some of these I point out because these people are legitimately stupid. But also, they’re clearly impaired by religion and political ideology.
The concept of the bill of rights is that your rights end where another’s begin.
The purpose of a college campus is not loitering, and camping. It’s not a garbage dump. You can protest in some areas of campus if you’re a student. But you have no right to setup barricades, to occupy buildings, to block people from moving freely through campus nor to harass people because they’re Jewish, or for any other reason.
These are not peaceful nor are they legal protests.
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I hope that they stay safe, Belem. I hate seeing that green and yellow in there; it makes me so nervous.My kids both have protests on their campuses. The only people who they say are threatening are the police.
Here are pictures from my son's campus this week. The scary protestors, and the non-threatening police response.
My son captured pix of the cops with shotguns at the ready from the livestream. Those umbrellas must look really scary.
With the general strike across the system and the faculty dissatisfaction with the law enforcement actions, I have a feeling that several chancellors may be facing a reckoning. I would not be surprised to see the chancellors engage in a Baron's war against the president if these scenes continue.
You want me to take you seriously when you call keffiyeh's "terrorist scarves"? You're not a serious person.
I'm guessing the umbrellas and gas masks are for tear gas.
There's trash because the police are tearing shit down
I'll take your word over my son's that they 'trashed the campus' as you seem to know a lot about things you don't participate in.
Hey, what could go wrong when a lawless gang with guns (LA Sheriffs) gets involved?
They’re explicitly to show solidarity with Hamas and worn by a group saying things like “from the river to the sea.” Ie, antisemitic genocidal terrorists. Might as well be wearing white hoods. They should be embarrassed.
I can understand feeling empathy for children killed in Gaza. I can understand opining that Israel should be careful. I cannot understand an American who has awareness of 9/11 and the history of the the regional Islamic position on Israel, knowing that the denizens of Gaza believe that Israel should not exist and are virulently both anti semitic and anti us, knowing that Hamas attacked on purpose young people who were non combatants, filmed it and the gleeful mutiliation of Israel citizens, took hostages including American citizens… I cannot understand an American showing solidarity with Hamas, quoting their slogans, wearing their clothes and asserting that Israel is wrong for responding to an explicit attack on civilians that killed more people proportionally to Israel than 9-11. Seems like a Jewish person might perceive that as a threat, no?
If Hamas managed to execute a similar attack on Austin city limits festival, for example, Gaza would be glass. But, we are ripping Israel?
The apartheid and genocide rhetoric is insultingly stupid.
The umbrellas and gas masks are to 1) obscure identity 2) physically resist arrest, defend their occupation.
The trash is there because the occupiers brought the trash on campus.
I’ll take google images visual cataloguing of the mess left by the idiots over your son who was apparently raised by a zealot.
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It's awful. One of the chaotic aspects of what happened on my campus was their showing up uninvited and another agency being called in to police them. And that is not the first time that has happened.
There we go, 'would be glass'. You could be a congressman.
It's not genocide! But if I was in charge, it would be!!
Thanks for the reminder of why I typically ignore your content.
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I wouldn’t advocate that. But you know the response would be more strident than what Israel is doing. It is hypocritical for us to be telling them to calm down.
You’d be a great apparatchik.
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