USC and Columbia Protests

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed at parents who allow and/or encourage their children to participate in protests when paying big bucks for a college education. These kids need to be studying and working at a part-time job.

You sound jealous.

Not at all. I'm a parent whose adult kids were raised to be responsible, honest, caring, and hard-working adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed at parents who allow and/or encourage their children to participate in protests when paying big bucks for a college education. These kids need to be studying and working at a part-time job.

You clearly did not graduate from a NESCAC or Ivy then…..I protested for Palestinian rights in college 25 years ago and I’m not Arab or Muslim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed at parents who allow and/or encourage their children to participate in protests when paying big bucks for a college education. These kids need to be studying and working at a part-time job.

I agree. I think the parents were activists themselves and raised kids to be like them.

Also, remember that most of the faculty at these schools fully support what these kids are doing.
They are probably getting extra credit for it. Doesn't matter if it causes Jewish students to be fearful of coming on campus. In fact, that makes it even more important to protest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed at parents who allow and/or encourage their children to participate in protests when paying big bucks for a college education. These kids need to be studying and working at a part-time job.

You clearly did not graduate from a NESCAC or Ivy then…..I protested for Palestinian rights in college 25 years ago and I’m not Arab or Muslim.

I didn't graduate from an Ivy, but I did graduate from a very highly regarded SLAC. I suppose I'm not as "privileged" as you and those who think disrupting learning on a campus is a right, with no regard for other students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed at parents who allow and/or encourage their children to participate in protests when paying big bucks for a college education. These kids need to be studying and working at a part-time job.

I would encourage my kid. Don’t just complain, do something.
Protests are legal

Trespassing on private property after you have been told leave is not.

I also can't stop rolling my eyes that these idiots are all wearing masks. It proves the theory they are mere decoration to show your progressive bona fides.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The DNC this summer is going to be absolutely wild and all of America will watch it live on tv - Palestine flags, antisemitic rhetoric, all the shit in college campuses will pour out at that convention center. Let’s see how they defend this shit to mainstream America.

Looks like mainstream America is sick of your Middle Eastern wars. Look at Candance Owens, Tucker Carlson. They are all sick of your wars.

Perhaps. But mainstream America always sides with Israel over Hamas. You won’t find a single “we support Palestine” flags in middle America, but you see “we support Israel” flags everywhere.

There is nothing mainstream America despises more than coddled, privileged rich kids “protesting” something which they know nothing about.

Yeah, well, we supported slavery and opposed suffrage and civil rights pretty ardently at points in time, too. That's the camp you're in now - wouldn't want to be pro-Israel in the coming years as reckoning starts to arrive with little to no notice.

While the US left supported Stalin (!) and Mao.

Maybe that’s the camp you’re in now—or do you think that Palestinians are going to be a beacon of civil rights and pluralism? (Snort)

Well, I doubt they'd be worse than Israelis. At least the Palestinians aren't committing genocide.

It doesn’t have to be one or the other. You can disapprove of Israel’s actions, and also acknowledge that Palestinians support a terrorist organization.

Many informed experts believe that Israel has knowingly committed war crimes. Some people might call that terrorism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed at parents who allow and/or encourage their children to participate in protests when paying big bucks for a college education. These kids need to be studying and working at a part-time job.

I would encourage my kid. Don’t just complain, do something.
Protests are legal

Trespassing on private property after you have been told leave is not.

I also can't stop rolling my eyes that these idiots are all wearing masks. It proves the theory they are mere decoration to show your progressive bona fides.

And, to conceal their identity. You know... to future prospective employers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you're wealthy, and it doesn't matter if your kids attend classes or disrupt learning for others, then it's apparently fine. That's a very privileged life.

What are you talking bout?
It is the working class thing to protest against war, low wages, dangerous working conditions
Ever heard about the Russian revolution?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Are you seriously calling these privileged elite kids "working class"?!?!

This is no Russian revolution. Maybe if they got on a plane and protested in Gaza, but not here it isn't and certainly not about their schools investments.

GMAFB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DNC this summer is going to be absolutely wild and all of America will watch it live on tv - Palestine flags, antisemitic rhetoric, all the shit in college campuses will pour out at that convention center. Let’s see how they defend this shit to mainstream America.

Looks like mainstream America is sick of your Middle Eastern wars. Look at Candance Owens, Tucker Carlson. They are all sick of your wars.

Perhaps. But mainstream America always sides with Israel over Hamas. You won’t find a single “we support Palestine” flags in middle America, but you see “we support Israel” flags everywhere.

There is nothing mainstream America despises more than coddled, privileged rich kids “protesting” something which they know nothing about.

I live in the middle of the country - in Wisconsin (not Madison ) there are far fewer "we support Israel" signs than in Potomac MD (where I'm from), you know that 100,000 + "mainstream, middle Americans" showed up in crappy rainy/sleety weather to do a protest vote against Biden? The medieval methods of siege warfare plus the racist garbage coming out of Israeli government minister's mouths coupled with the Arab and refugee population in middle America means middle America looks different than what you imagine.

Just spit balling here, but maybe because Potomac, which is in MoCo, has one of the highest populations of jews in the country compared to nowhere Wisconsin.

Just a thought.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're wealthy, and it doesn't matter if your kids attend classes or disrupt learning for others, then it's apparently fine. That's a very privileged life.

What are you talking bout?
It is the working class thing to protest against war, low wages, dangerous working conditions
Ever heard about the Russian revolution?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Are you seriously calling these privileged elite kids "working class"?!?!

This is no Russian revolution. Maybe if they got on a plane and protested in Gaza, but not here it isn't and certainly not about their schools investments.

GMAFB.

+1 Thank you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed at parents who allow and/or encourage their children to participate in protests when paying big bucks for a college education. These kids need to be studying and working at a part-time job.

I have mixed feelings about the protests but one could argue that the students are putting their education to work. They are trying to make change happen. Textbook studying is only good up to a certain point. Sometimes you learn more from real life in one day than you can learn from a textbook in one year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed at parents who allow and/or encourage their children to participate in protests when paying big bucks for a college education. These kids need to be studying and working at a part-time job.

You sound jealous.

Not at all. I'm a parent whose adult kids were raised to be responsible, honest, caring, and hard-working adults.

But do your kids care about the greater good? Do they care about fighting for a cause that they are passionate about? Do they want to change the country they live in?
History will judge these protesters. Hard for us to know in real time whether they are on the right side or wrong side of History

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed at parents who allow and/or encourage their children to participate in protests when paying big bucks for a college education. These kids need to be studying and working at a part-time job.

You sound jealous.

Not at all. I'm a parent whose adult kids were raised to be responsible, honest, caring, and hard-working adults.

But do your kids care about the greater good? Do they care about fighting for a cause that they are passionate about? Do they want to change the country they live in?
History will judge these protesters. Hard for us to know in real time whether they are on the right side or wrong side of History

What is this obsession with “changing” the country? I think it’s pretty damn great as it is and I’m thankful to be here

[Anonymous]

I wonder if protests will take off like Vietnam protests took off or if they will not because it is not our soldiers. However, it is our money and young folks surely believe they have better use for 95B.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed at parents who allow and/or encourage their children to participate in protests when paying big bucks for a college education. These kids need to be studying and working at a part-time job.

You sound jealous.

Not at all. I'm a parent whose adult kids were raised to be responsible, honest, caring, and hard-working adults.

What a good little sheep you raised.