Protests on college campuses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't alive during Vietnam so have no direct memory of it, but I have a hard time likening the current situation to one that involved drafting young American men against their will and sending them to face the horrors of war overseas.

What's your explanation for why single women protested Vietnam War? They weren't drafted, not were their husbands or parents.

Maybe they friends or brothers or cousins who were drafted. Or maybe they had empathy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't alive during Vietnam so have no direct memory of it, but I have a hard time likening the current situation to one that involved drafting young American men against their will and sending them to face the horrors of war overseas.

What's your explanation for why single women protested Vietnam War? They weren't drafted, not were their husbands or parents.

Their brothers? Their friends? Their cousins?

[Anonymous]

_Emory university economics professor Caroline Fohlin was violently assaulted by state police at the university encampment whilst protesting with the students in support of Gaza. She can be heard shouting ‘I’m a professor."_

[Anonymous]

It doesn’t matter what she’s shouting. Her professor status doesn’t save her from anything. Professors should not be out there anyway. Full stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t matter what she’s shouting. Her professor status doesn’t save her from anything. Professors should not be out there anyway. Full stop.

Exactly. And, this just confirms that a good portion of university faculty are ant-Israel, just like the protesters.
You wonder where these impressionable students learn their antisemitism...... Here you have it.

[Anonymous]

I LOVE it when people employ "full stop" as though God was speaking through them and had proclaimed the law and the judgement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is more like Occupy Wall Street.

A bunch of entitled college-age students "occupying" areas and impinging on the rights of others.

Only difference is that these protests are antisemitic and threatening to Jewish people and others.

Stop throwing Molotov cocktails in this thread.

The kids are not racist. In fact, they are much more intersectional than their parents and YOU who seem to be firmly in the grandparents age group. You are too old now to change so go ahead and keep spouting your nonsense. You do not sound cogent.

If this is an example of being "intersectional," no thanks.

Oh well given who owns Twitter it must be true!

[Anonymous]

So many of these protests are receiving outside agitators moving the protest message from supporting Palestinians to supporting Hamas and the corresponding anti-semetism.

I 100% support both the Palestinian people and the Israeli people and 0% support either Hamas or Likud/Netanyahu.

What is sad is how the message and rhetoric is being co-opted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many of these protests are receiving outside agitators moving the protest message from supporting Palestinians to supporting Hamas and the corresponding anti-semetism.

I 100% support both the Palestinian people and the Israeli people and 0% support either Hamas or Likud/Netanyahu.

What is sad is how the message and rhetoric is being co-opted.

Do you have proof of this? Or any links to articles backing up your perception.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is more like Occupy Wall Street.

A bunch of entitled college-age students "occupying" areas and impinging on the rights of others.

Only difference is that these protests are antisemitic and threatening to Jewish people and others.

Stop throwing Molotov cocktails in this thread.

The kids are not racist. In fact, they are much more intersectional than their parents and YOU who seem to be firmly in the grandparents age group. You are too old now to change so go ahead and keep spouting your nonsense. You do not sound cogent.

If this is an example of being "intersectional," no thanks.

It is true.
He issued an "apology," of sorts. He blames the "right wing" for his incendiary comments.

Oh well given who owns Twitter it must be true!

[Anonymous]

Joe Biden is really showing great leadership. We have a president fully in control bringing unity and love to this country……..

[Anonymous]

If all these solitary encampments want their particular university to divest in companies that support Israel, do they even know what that means? Do they have a list of those companies in which their school has invested/in their endowment?

Can they even get specific?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t matter what she’s shouting. Her professor status doesn’t save her from anything. Professors should not be out there anyway. Full stop.

Astounding as always, you would be doing awkward backflips of outrage if this professor was a Zionist!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The thread in the college forum was closed but I don't see anything about the Emory protest here. People keep belittling the college students and professors. WHY? Good for the students for protesting! It's the cops who are completely over the top here.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/04/26/pro-palestinian-protests-college-campus-usc-emory-columbia-watt-ebof-vpx.cnn

Discussions about protests on college forum have been locked. Moderator wants people to post in Political forum.

I wanted to just talk about more missed graduations but apparently that was political??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many of these protests are receiving outside agitators moving the protest message from supporting Palestinians to supporting Hamas and the corresponding anti-semetism.

I 100% support both the Palestinian people and the Israeli people and 0% support either Hamas or Likud/Netanyahu.

What is sad is how the message and rhetoric is being co-opted.

Do you have proof of this? Or any links to articles backing up your perception.

Someone I know from college posted video on IG from the solidarity camp at Northwestern University last night. She's a 43 year-old mom in Chicago with no connection to Northwestern.

The encampments are like a flame for the moths - you get all these terminally-online hardline voices showing up to protest for Gaza. And then you get the hard-right pro-Israel counter-protestors bussed into Columbia to protest outside the gate. It's like a convention of idiots with megaphones.