My DC's Graduation Location was Just Switched to Accommodate the Encampments on Campus...I'm Angry!!

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I’m so sorry that genocide has dampened your celebrations. That sounds hard.

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Anonymous wrote:Ukraine has been under attack for a lot longer. Funny how white-on-white warfare doesn't merit an encampment, but the perceived white-on-POC conflict which is complicated x1000 does.

WE ARE FUNDING UKRAINE AND NOT SIDING WITH THE RUSSIANS.

There are protests against Israeli policies right now because it seems a lot of influential political and advocacy groups are siding with Israel, which is the equivalent of siding with Russia, in terms of people being killed and unfairness of collateral damage.

35K Palestinians killed.
Less than 2K Isaelis killed.

In the entire history of Israel, there have been far, far, more Palestinians and other Arab nationals killed than Israeli citizens.


At some point, you've got to realize that you're on the wrong side of history. Cold hard math, PP. Math doesn't lie.

While the Israeli government's response may be over the top, I still believe in the right of Israel to exist and that there has to be a 2-state solution.

In addition years ago I heard a story about a UN cartographer sent to the Middle East to work on maps with Israelis and Palestinians. His verdict when he got back, "They're both a$$holes." That has been my lifelong view of the situation and it won't change.

These Palestinian-American men who are in charge of American advocacy groups come across as complete a$$holes. When asked whether they are to blame for possible damage to Biden's campaign, they assert that if it occurs it will be all Biden's fault, not their's! Seriously!?!?! What effing entitlement. As I said, they are all a$$holes. If you choose to be that naive, PP, it's on you.

Israel over the top. The understatement of the year. The lack of empathy is utterly astounding.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so sorry that genocide has dampened your celebrations. That sounds hard.

The OP is an entitled jerk. Imagine coming on here to vent about this while people are dying.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so sorry that genocide has dampened your celebrations. That sounds hard.

It is not a genocide.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so sorry that genocide has dampened your celebrations. That sounds hard.

It is not a genocide.

Says you, but I'll bite. Just substitute genocide with mass murder, pogroms, annihilation, elimination, decimation, butchery, slaughter, eradication, anything but genocide right PP

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Anonymous wrote:My DC attends Swarthmore College, and I just got a notification that they have decided to move the graduation off campus 30 minutes away to accommodate the encampment on campus! This angers me because this class has already lost so many traditions because of COVID-19, and now they will lose another because they prefer to allow protests. I just think it is really unfair and they should have taken into consideration that this class has already lost so much due to the pandemic. Plus the school is having to spend money unnecessarily to rent a space large enough for all of the graduates and families. Enough already!

I mean, at least it's not cancelled....so they are at least making that work (which must be hard last minute at this time of year to find an alternative location)

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, that does suck, but so does Gaza not having any universities anymore and having thousands of students killed.

That does suck, but please tell me (I"m not OP) how these encampments are helping the cause.

The same way students helped end the Vietnam war with protests and helped South Africa end apartheid. Citizens of Israel are also protesting with much bigger crowds against Netanyahu. Protests have always been a way to, well, protest against something. Nothing new.

I hear you but I’m also having trouble seeing that these protests are effective. Vietnam was different because we were the ones waging the war and college aged students were being drafted. And there weren’t protests like this on campus re South Africa — I was at a liberal college at the time. We wrote letters thru Amnesty and boycotted Coke. It was more a targeted financial boycott that was effective, combined with near universal global condemnation and decades of really effective activism within the country. These kids should be protesting at the state department or NSA headquarters — swarthmore really has nothing to do with it and ruining things for the fellow students won’t help the people in Gaza at all. They’d do better to get every family to sign a petition, distribute information, and get every guest to donate $100 to famine relief.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not like they cancelled graduation. They just moved it. Sheesh I hope your kid isn’t as whiny and entitled as you are.

Agree. What’s the big deal with changing the venue? This would be like moving UMD graduation from College Park to UMBC. Maybe a minor inconvenience but certainly not the end of the world!

But if you didn’t go to UMBC or take any classes at UMBC, I wouldn’t want to trek 30 mins to some campus I have no affiliation with for my graduation. Sorry. I want pictures and memories from the campus I attended for 4 years.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC attends Swarthmore College, and I just got a notification that they have decided to move the graduation off campus 30 minutes away to accommodate the encampment on campus! This angers me because this class has already lost so many traditions because of COVID-19, and now they will lose another because they prefer to allow protests. I just think it is really unfair and they should have taken into consideration that this class has already lost so much due to the pandemic. Plus the school is having to spend money unnecessarily to rent a space large enough for all of the graduates and families. Enough already!

Effing losers, these encampment people. I feel for ya, sorry.

+1
And I would add, the administrators who are allowing this are also effing losers.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, that does suck, but so does Gaza not having any universities anymore and having thousands of students killed.

That does suck, but please tell me (I"m not OP) how these encampments are helping the cause.

The same way students helped end the Vietnam war with protests and helped South Africa end apartheid. Citizens of Israel are also protesting with much bigger crowds against Netanyahu. Protests have always been a way to, well, protest against something. Nothing new.

The students didn't achieve that. And very different issues. Stop with the CNN talking points if you aren't au courante to have an educated view on the situation

You clearly demonstrate an appalling lack of understanding of those two mass protest efforts. And there's no "e" at the end of courant.

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Anonymous wrote:Ukraine has been under attack for a lot longer. Funny how white-on-white warfare doesn't merit an encampment, but the perceived white-on-POC conflict which is complicated x1000 does.

WE ARE FUNDING UKRAINE AND NOT SIDING WITH THE RUSSIANS.

There are protests against Israeli policies right now because it seems a lot of influential political and advocacy groups are siding with Israel, which is the equivalent of siding with Russia, in terms of people being killed and unfairness of collateral damage.

35K Palestinians killed.
Less than 2K Isaelis killed.

In the entire history of Israel, there have been far, far, more Palestinians and other Arab nationals killed than Israeli citizens.


At some point, you've got to realize that you're on the wrong side of history. Cold hard math, PP. Math doesn't lie.

While the Israeli government's response may be over the top, I still believe in the right of Israel to exist and that there has to be a 2-state solution.

In addition years ago I heard a story about a UN cartographer sent to the Middle East to work on maps with Israelis and Palestinians. His verdict when he got back, "They're both a$$holes." That has been my lifelong view of the situation and it won't change.

These Palestinian-American men who are in charge of American advocacy groups come across as complete a$$holes. When asked whether they are to blame for possible damage to Biden's campaign, they assert that if it occurs it will be all Biden's fault, not their's! Seriously!?!?! What effing entitlement. As I said, they are all a$$holes. If you choose to be that naive, PP, it's on you.

Israel over the top. The understatement of the year. The lack of empathy is utterly astounding.

This isn’t my first rodeo with self-righteous virtue signallers with a selective sense of fairness and a flair for posturing like you. Given that I originally referenced Ukraine, lack of empathy is not an issue. I’m just not desperate for moral certitude in a world of ambiguity.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m so sorry that genocide has dampened your celebrations. That sounds hard.

It is not a genocide.

Says you, but I'll bite. Just substitute genocide with mass murder, pogroms, annihilation, elimination, decimation, butchery, slaughter, eradication, anything but genocide right PP

I know what a genocide is because my ancestors were victims. This is not a genocide. Your other descriptive words are accurate, but genocide is the wrong term here.

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1.That is disappointing, OP. The Swarthmore campus is so beautiful!

2. STOP IT with the snowflake pandemic whining. It's getting old and you lose credibility every time you use it. Millions died. You can't whine about your kid missing out on extra luxury stuff, like graduations and parties.

3. Congratulations to your child! They are clearly intelligent and highly capable.

4. I have every sympathy for Palestinians being mass murdered right now, with newborns and their mothers starving in the streets, young orphans amputated of their limbs, rotting corpses under the rubble of their homes, and no future at all for any of them, dead or alive, under the oppression of the Israeli fundamentalist and racist right-wing government and voting block. At least YOUR child has a future. May he or she use it to promote peace around the world.

And yet when anyone points out that Trump involved us in ZERO wars during his presidency, that means nothing to you and you’ll continue to vote for endless wars

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry but I have very very little sympathy for families who send their kids to these campuses run by EXTREME “progressives” and then cry when they make extreme decisions.

But on a brighter note—sincere congratulations on your child’s graduation!

+1. Swarthmore is the Kremlin on the Crum, OP. Sorry but what did you expect? Kid should’ve gone to Bama.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no horse in this race (except DC is a future college student hopefully) but how do people not understand that these protests are centrally funded and organized? Follow the money, who funds them? My guesses are: the gulf countries or the Chinese. Well maybe Putin donated a little too.

Follow your own advice, PP…and follow the money ….to Soros. 100%