Palestine college student protest megathread

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It’s crazy that this person still attends Columbia. There are no rules against death threats? Against calls for violence? You really can do whatever the hell you want over there as long as Jews are the target.

Well he has been banned from campus now...but I haven't heard of him being expelled? But not sure how it would work otherwise.

At this point he's unemployable even if he graduated. Although I guess he could just become an "influencer" and soak in big time grift.

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It's telling about how weak their movement is that they keep comparing themselves to the anti-Vietnam and anti-Apartheid protests.  Their protest isn't strong enough to stand on its own so they have to defend it by leeching off the romanticized reputation of more popular protests.  Basically "oh you don't like us?  well guess that means you wouldn't have liked the anti-Vietnam protests either.  you're either pro-protest or anti-protest."

BTW, were anti-Apartheid student protests actually a big thing?  I had never heard about them prior to last week.  Or are the students magnifying the impact and significance of what were actually a handful of small protests at various universities including Columbia?

Anti-apartheid protests directly in front of the South African embassy led to the formation and codification of emo. Kids in the DC scene at the time organized anti-apartheid protests, it became an actual social movement around the same time Rites of Spring and Embrace were making waves, Amy Pickering later known as the vocalist of Fire Party coined the term "Revolution Summer" to describe that, and along with the term "emocore" also later coined the movement made its place in history and the influence came.

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The image:



She's now claiming she did not know of the flag in the background...in the picture she posted to her Instagram herself, hahaha.

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BTW note her Prada bag, her designer clothes and she attended this protest in Spain where she was on vacation during winter break. Clearly in solidarity with oppressed and marginalized people.

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So classes are cancelled?

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She should've been fired years ago for being a DEI Director.

She was only hired in October so only got a few months of grift in.

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LOL.

https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1786116920619511885?t=F1-RXG1u-_jkWOe-f...

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Saying "the vast majority protests are peaceful" is like saying the vast majority of cops don't engage in brutality or abuses, even if true it doesn't mean the cases that aren't aren't a huge problem and aren't grounds for ignoring it.

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How American to kick out people cause you don’t like what they’re saying

can you list the countries that are super welcoming to people who celebrate terrorism?

I can think of one country that used to be a major power that fits the bill, but I’d probably get infracted for naming it.

What? The only one I can think of is the Soviet Union/Russia which would not result in infraction obviously.

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https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24156540/israel-palestine-protests-columbia-universities-free-speech

As Columbia law professor David Pozen writes, the university has multiple overlapping disciplinary codes and processes. The most longstanding of these are the Rules of University Conduct. Those rules were established in the wake of the campus protests of 1968 and aimed to maximize students’ expressive freedom and preempt viewpoint discrimination by the administration. When charged for an offense under the Rules of University Conduct, students are afforded representation and other due process rights.

But there is another disciplinary code administered by the CSSI, which was established in 2022 and aims to shield students from discrimination and promote the values of “Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.” The CSSI’s disciplinary process stipulates a broader definition of discriminatory speech than either the Rules of University Conduct or federal civil rights law, while providing the accused with few procedural protections.

As Pozen explained to Vox, the CSSI provides no right to counsel, bars the accused from making opening or closing statements, and allows the administration to add new charges in the middle of the process.

Lol Columbia using DIE to crush the protesters.

Actually a great argument against that sort of thing in the first place, and one that will probably give some people pause on it since it's not just right-wing outrage influencer types being targeted now.