Protests on college campuses

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Anonymous wrote:Students chanting “USA” drowned out the pro-Palestinian protesters on campus at Bama earlier today.

I bet southern schools will see a big uptick in commitments from students who are sick of anti-American nonsense.

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Absolutely.

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Anonymous wrote:Those Frat boys have amassed over $489k and growing! https://www.gofundme.com/f/pi-kappa-phi-men-defended-their-flag-throw-em-a-rager

Love it!

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Anonymous wrote:The Post had a picture yesterday of a protester fighting with a custodian inside the building that was taken over. The protester's hoodie was pulled up above his ribs and you could see he was wearing a leather belt coated with tons of sharp metal spikes and had several tattoos on his abdomen.

Peaceful protesters my foot. The students are such tools.

That isn't a student. Wake up.

DP. This student protester disagrees:

One of the student leaders of the protest, Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian scholar attending Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, disputed assertions that outsiders led the occupation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pro-palestinian-protesters-occupy-building-columbia-university-cnn-2024-04-30/

I guess he's proud to admit that the idiot students were completely in charge.

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Shots fired at Columbia

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Anonymous wrote:Shots fired at Columbia

Probably an accident. No one was hurt and no need to dramatize it.

"Cohen said no students and only police officers were in the immediate vicinity when the shooting occurred."

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-officer-fired-gun-columbia-hamilton-hall-raid/

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Anonymous wrote:Shots fired at Columbia

Probably an accident. No one was hurt and no need to dramatize it.

"Cohen said no students and only police officers were in the immediate vicinity when the shooting occurred."

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-officer-fired-gun-columbia-hamilton-hall-raid/

Good teachable moment about playing with fire "Don't play with me, cause you're playing with fire..."

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Anonymous wrote:The “grownups” are finally in charge and apparently they are thugs.

Chilling, haha. What a bunch of babies.

I usually don’t care about protests. But the vandalism out of UCLA was disappointing. I mean the hammer and sickle graffiti just pathetic.

The only people who laugh at violence are psychopaths.

Before the military descended on UCLA, the vulgar class, was shrieking about the safety of Jewish kids who had to walk past a Palestian flag or a scarf.

Post military occupation of UCLA, 25 students are hospitalized.

hospitalized because they fainted due to lack of a hot lunch?

That’s how the Nazis talked about your malnourished grandma in the ghetto.

You’re seriously out of line. The more you rant on here the clearer your anti-semitism shows.

You mean it’s painful to think about your loved ones being humiliated for lacking basic human needs, like a need for nourishment? Only vulgar creatures like you find lack of nourishment funny.

let me get this straight: white UCLA students demanding hot food for lunch is the same as Jewish elderly people starving in the ghetto. Is that right?

Making fun of people because they request food is vulgar.

They are choosing to starve themselves...and it is HILARIOUS!

They are choosing to eat. Their supporters are providing them the food. There is something really bizarre about people making fun of people who engage in the most basic life sustaining activity.

How about protesting, heading off campus to eat, going home for the evening, then returning to protest the next day?

Maybe also add in...going to classes and focusing on their careers..unless all college kids want to be radical activists. Then they will complain about how unfair their student loans are when they are making $15/hr making antisemetic signs.

how about not massively disrupting education for 10,000s of students?

Please you and your conspiracy theories. Hamas took time out of their busy schedule to send over all these activities. Who used their Jedi mind trick to confuse college students.

exactly, you know, through that tunnel from there to the U S.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Those Frat boys have amassed over $489k and growing! https://www.gofundme.com/f/pi-kappa-phi-men-defended-their-flag-throw-em-a-rager

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Wow that is a lot of kegs!

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Anonymous wrote:Those Frat boys have amassed over $489k and growing! https://www.gofundme.com/f/pi-kappa-phi-men-defended-their-flag-throw-em-a-rager

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Anonymous wrote:Which one of you raised these thugs?

Birthright?

A mob of thugs. If there is an ounce of justice left in this world, federal indictments will arise from those attacks the other night. Anything less is a stain on our democracy. The frenzied attack of that encampment was one of the most disturbing things I've seen in my life that didn't involve definitive, actual loss of life. It is fair and accurate to say that those counter-protesters behaved like rabid animals on the UCLA campus.

Everyone who cheered what they did. Those who financed them (looking at you Ackman apparently Jessica Seinfeld). Disgraceful. An army of vile, vicious Stu Seldowitz drones.

And for the record, the only "Western values" those vicious twatwaffles demonstrated were the Western values that were once embraced in America - slavery and diminished civil rights for non-whites. Absolute disgrace. Nothing in all of these college protests comes close to topping the despicable events of that night, and that's saying a lot when we've all seen 117 lb. 65 year old economic professors DDT'd into concrete by two officers who carry sidearms and possessn an assortment of crowd control training and equipment, and outweigh her collectively by 350 pounds.

That’s a bit much. When you act like a bully (which the UCLA protestors were doing) sometimes a bigger bully comes along.

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Anonymous wrote:Those Frat boys have amassed over $489k and growing! https://www.gofundme.com/f/pi-kappa-phi-men-defended-their-flag-throw-em-a-rager

Love it!

Up to $505,000 now. Will probably be a campaign ad-- saving U.S. flag from those who wanted to replace it with a Palestinian flag.

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There’s no amount of repression of their critics that the Zionists and the other fascists on the far right won’t justify. It’s going to make the inevitable reversal of fortune that much harder for them when the next generation, which largely has negative views of Israel, assumes power.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s no amount of repression of their critics that the Zionists and the other fascists on the far right won’t justify. It’s going to make the inevitable reversal of fortune that much harder for them when the next generation, which largely has negative views of Israel, assumes power.

Duly noted. We’ll check back in next generation.

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Anonymous wrote:Which one of you raised these thugs?

Birthright?

A mob of thugs. If there is an ounce of justice left in this world, federal indictments will arise from those attacks the other night. Anything less is a stain on our democracy. The frenzied attack of that encampment was one of the most disturbing things I've seen in my life that didn't involve definitive, actual loss of life. It is fair and accurate to say that those counter-protesters behaved like rabid animals on the UCLA campus.

Everyone who cheered what they did. Those who financed them (looking at you Ackman apparently Jessica Seinfeld). Disgraceful. An army of vile, vicious Stu Seldowitz drones.

And for the record, the only "Western values" those vicious twatwaffles demonstrated were the Western values that were once embraced in America - slavery and diminished civil rights for non-whites. Absolute disgrace. Nothing in all of these college protests comes close to topping the despicable events of that night, and that's saying a lot when we've all seen 117 lb. 65 year old economic professors DDT'd into concrete by two officers who carry sidearms and possessn an assortment of crowd control training and equipment, and outweigh her collectively by 350 pounds.

I agree. The police need to hire a 65 year old 117 lb. officer so that the professor had a fighting chance. Trial by combat, just like the good old days.

Was that the only tactics these two officers had for controlling a 65 year old woman? If so, training has failed miserably.

This isn't about whether the protesting was right or wrong. Pick your side, lock it in, it doesn't change for one second the fact that embarrassingly ineffective public safety tactics were on display in far too many cases. I agree with others that the job wasn't enviable for hard working officers. But that, too, isn't the issue. You cannot defend that use of force with an unarmed, geriatric subject. Sorry, you just can't.

If what we saw is how officers from those agencies are trained to control someone like that professor, they need new training. Fast.

I see your point, but strongly disagree.

Simply put, the police are being out in a literally impossible position.

They’re ordered to clear out the protesters.

The protesters refuse to leave and use barricades, lock arms, etc.—all designed to make the police use physical force to remove them.

Then protesters physically resist when police begin to arrest/detain them.

At that point, police have to use more force to complete the arrest/removal.

In the meanwhile, some protesters are accosting, grabbing, pushing, throwing things at the police.

I’m not trying to score political points here—I literally see no other options for police in these circumstances.

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ugh yup--I fear you are correct. These crazies have handed the election to Trump and we'll all be worse off as a result.