Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We've all seen the swastikas and the hate speech.We've seen law firms rescind offers to students signing anti-semitic screeds. Most people don't want to be associated with these protesters. So I imagine that those that do will be the worst of the worst. And of course most will be masked. Just like the KKK. Definitely would not attend if you have a career to think about
The vast majority of protests have been peaceful. I think there have only been a handful of incidents out of the hundred+ protests in the last few weeks? The ideal would be 0 incidents. The hate speech and swastikas have been a very small percentage of these people and I wouldn't want any person saying those things to show up. Of course showing up with swastikas is awful.
Yes, there will probably be chants of "from the river to the sea" and "free Palestine", but that is not hate speech, not in the US. You can pull up a bunch of articles written by people saying it is, and I can pull up articles written by people saying it's not. So it would be your perspective to say it's hate speech, but other people have a different perspective.
I mean, since you all think it's hate speech anyway and want to cancel them for saying free Palestine, why wouldn't they just say death chants or whatever if that's what they really meant? It's because it's not what the vast majority of people mean when they say it.
So let them exercise their first amendment rights. If we disagree with an action of our government, it is our right to protest peacefully. They are not terrorists or terrorist sympathizers. This is a call to our government to do what it can do to minimize the suffering of the innocent people of Gaza.