USC and Columbia Protests

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/columbia-university-protests-palestine/678159/?gift=mg7b1AqRHrzgE279scHT_JqGAaK-cEdHC33cpDj0ano&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The Unreality of Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’
What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive?

By Michael Powell

"students chanting like automatons"

"Repeat after me,” he says, and 100 protesters dutifully repeat: “I’m bored! We would like you to leave!”

"Upon entering the zone, I was instructed to listen as a gatekeeper read community guidelines that included not talking with people not authorized to be inside—a category that seemed to include anyone of differing opinions. "

"The prevailing tone tends toward late-stage Frantz Fanon: much talk of revolution and purging oneself of bourgeois affectation. "

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the bright side, every student enrolled in a university not being overtaken by violent protests is going to see his/her employment prospects increase.

When I’m reviewing resumes, these Ivy school applications are going into the circular file.

Fortunately, it’s not entirely Zionists and RWNJs making hiring decisions.

Lucky for you Hamas is hiring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the bright side, every student enrolled in a university not being overtaken by violent protests is going to see his/her employment prospects increase.

When I’m reviewing resumes, these Ivy school applications are going into the circular file.

Fortunately, it’s not entirely Zionists and RWNJs making hiring decisions.

Lucky for you Hamas is hiring.

+100
Beat me to it.

[Anonymous]

If you are in corporate America, no way do you want these protesting students on your payroll. Constant disruptions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think these protestors should do what many young American Jews have done - buy a plane ticket, pick up a rifle, and demonstrate the strength of their convictions that way

But if they even tried to do that they’d probably be strapped to missiles by Hamas the next day

LARPing clowns

Most don't have the courage to fight in a war.

Said the keyboard warrior IDF wanna-be.

I'm the youngest daughter and granddaughter and niece and great-niece of men who fought against the Nazis in WWII. My husband's father was a German POW for 15 months. I know from their shared memories what war entails. And as a female educator, I don't pretend to have the kind of courage needed for war. These jeering, privileged college kids who are disrupting classes and campus life of other students definitely don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are in corporate America, no way do you want these protesting students on your payroll. Constant disruptions.

+1
Absolutely no way. The schools that are allowing this idiocy have fallen so far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Israel and its supporters make it incredibly easy to support the underdog in this fight, even an underdog that shoots itself in the foot at times.

Yes, the US supports the underdog Israel. Last week, Iran, a country with eight times the population of Israel, sent a wave of drones, ballistic and cruise missiles, toward Israel. Fortunately, with US military assistance, Israel was able to shoot down 99% of the incoming explosives. and the only serious injury was to a 7-year old Bedouin girl. Would the people objecting to military assistance to Israel, preferred that there were instead massive casualties?

Would prefer that they do not attack the embassy of the other country.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-edge-iranian-retaliation-after-embassy-strike-2024-04-12/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the bright side, every student enrolled in a university not being overtaken by violent protests is going to see his/her employment prospects increase.

When I’m reviewing resumes, these Ivy school applications are going into the circular file.

Fortunately, it’s not entirely Zionists and RWNJs making hiring decisions.

Lucky for you Hamas is hiring.

Ha! Well done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Actually, as a person who objects to military assistance to Israel, I would have preferred that Israel not have provoked the Iranian response by committing war crimes in destroying a foreign diplomatic facility, murdering diplomats, and then expecting people to just turn the page when they conjured up another Israeli lie about the occupants of the diplomatic facility.

#stopIsraelsupport

And I would have preferred that Hamas didn't commit mass murder of 1200 civilians and kidnapping of 250 others on October 7. But we don't always get what we prefer.

+1000
Truly amazing that this has to be reiterated over and over.

To you and the PP:

What did 10/7 justify Israel to do in response, since you very clearly cannot get past 10/7 and believe Israel was an innocent bystander previously?

What did 10/7 justify as a response from Israel?

[Anonymous]

A lot of parents who are about to stroke their first Ivy League tuition checks are not feeling very good right now. Can you imagine sending $80k a year to a place like this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of parents who are about to stroke their first Ivy League tuition checks are not feeling very good right now. Can you imagine sending $80k a year to a place like this?

Never in a million years. And I could easily write the check.

My son graduated from SEC school…nothing like this would be tolerated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are in corporate America, no way do you want these protesting students on your payroll. Constant disruptions.

+1
Absolutely no way. The schools that are allowing this idiocy have fallen so far.

Google fired employees for there protesting so it is a problem for corporate America that they are

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Actually, as a person who objects to military assistance to Israel, I would have preferred that Israel not have provoked the Iranian response by committing war crimes in destroying a foreign diplomatic facility, murdering diplomats, and then expecting people to just turn the page when they conjured up another Israeli lie about the occupants of the diplomatic facility.

#stopIsraelsupport

And I would have preferred that Hamas didn't commit mass murder of 1200 civilians and kidnapping of 250 others on October 7. But we don't always get what we prefer.

+1000
Truly amazing that this has to be reiterated over and over.

To you and the PP:

What did 10/7 justify Israel to do in response, since you very clearly cannot get past 10/7 and believe Israel was an innocent bystander previously?

What did 10/7 justify as a response from Israel?

Ok since you believe 10/7 was just another day in a long war let the war continue without complaining.

[Anonymous]

Protestors:

If orga and schools continue to say "no" to your demands, what's next? Remember, they have the option to say "no" in reality.

Actually, this applies to the U.S. govt. If the U.S. govt continues to say "no", what are you going to do?

[Anonymous]

Eventually the semester ends and their student IDs are deactivated, right? They will be forced to leave campus. ??