Protests on college campuses

[Anonymous]

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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.

Starts at home. Leave em Profs alone!

[Anonymous]

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

May a 3rd party prevail this year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

May a 3rd party prevail this year!

I'd like it to rain lollipops. Can we add that to our list of birthday wishes?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Perfect description. Thank you.

At this point, neither side accurately reflects the opinion of the majority of Americans.

Thank god.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Perfect description. Thank you.

At this point, neither side accurately reflects the opinion of the majority of Americans.

Thank god.

People protest because it’s something to do. It’s a hobby or activity. Other people play sports, collect things, go places, craft things, etc.

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Likely Harvard Law students who don't fully understand the law......

[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??

Yes, so innocent, yet.

Colleges forum typically for those looking to apply, applying, waiting for admissions, admitted, planning for start of college and overall college info. Graduation is part of it, yet...Protests talk = political. Another discussion in a non-political thread, about a Muslim teacher and firing of teacher based on email signature or what was apparently said in a classroom, was also locked when it turned political.

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Northwestern encampment

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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.

Professors have a RIGHT to protest. Full stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:_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."_

What exactly does she want to convey by shouting that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:_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."_

What exactly does she want to convey by shouting that?

I saw the full video: police officers were arresting someone and she came from behind to try to stop them, insulting them repeatedly and touching one officer. Then she threw an epic over dramatic tantrum and resisted arrest. She thinks that being a professor means she should be given a pass to break the law.

[Anonymous]

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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.

NP. I said on the other thread that the Vietnam protests absolutely were also about killing children. My dad, an injured vet had someone yell "baby killer" at him. Remember the disturbing photo of the naked girl running -- people were appalled about what we were doing on the ground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Perfect description. Thank you.

At this point, neither side accurately reflects the opinion of the majority of Americans.

Thank god.

Wrong. A vast majority of BOTH Jews and Muslims support a permanent ceasefire as of mid-February. Both groups also flipped on age dependency. Also, see the chart about where the general population places the blame for the Gaza violence.

https://www.ispu.org/ceasefire-poll/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Professors have a RIGHT to protest. Full stop.

Sure she does. She doesn't have a RIGHT to prevent the arrest of others or to resist arrest.