USC and Columbia Protests

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

? You do know the campus protests in the 60s were widespread and very similar to what is going on today (I was raised on stories of my parents taking over a building at Columbia and finals were cancelled).

That generation became executives and Volvo driving soccer moms.

It’s funny because the people who seem to be upset at these protesters are millennials whose own protest (occupy Wall Street) fizzled out.

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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/

Would prefer that Iranian embassies not harbor known terrorists like Mohammed Reza Zahedi.

Would prefer that Iran establish diplomatic relations with Israel — as Egypt and Jordan have done — so that rules of diplomacy apply

Terrorist are in the eye of the beholder. The world considers Israel a terrorist state.

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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.

Exactly (well, not the jeering privilege kid part). But that anti war sentiment is why they are protesting for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid for Gaza.

I have absolutely no issues with those goals.

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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.

They are ultra bright, accomplished and hardworking as evidenced by their acceptance to IVYs. They are also willing to fight for what they believe in. Meet your future competitors.

Yep. Your loss. Not theirs.

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The difference is that the US is bankrolling Israel.
And BTW the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and our war on Iraq are nothing to gloat about.

I don't remember the hoards of college students shutting down campuses for any of those conflicts.

There were hordes of 20-somethings protesting Iraq in DC. I was one of them, with friends.

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Anonymous wrote:BREAKING: Columbia University President announces it’s time “to move forward with a plan to dismantle” the pro-Palestine encampment, gives organizers a midnight deadline to do so as part of a comprehensive agreement with the administration.

Looks like Kent State in the making. The mask is off, let the brutality begin.

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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?

They are feeling great, their children are getting an education vs. an overpriced worker training program.

Plus the kids are going to classes remotely and studying. Haven’t you seen the photos?

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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.

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Most publics would never allow this moronic activity to run rampant, disrupting life for everyone.

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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.

+ a million
I was going to just ignore the troll, but thank you for your response.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

Sure but protests like these can impact public perception and effect change. Look at the anti Anti Vietnam protests and SA disinvestment.

Instead of scoffing at these protesters why don’t you look at why they feel so strongly. Maybe there is something there. Of course it’s easier to write them off as idiots…

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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.

They are ultra bright, accomplished and hardworking as evidenced by their acceptance to IVYs. They are also willing to fight for what they believe in. Meet your future competitors.

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The entire world has witnessed these morons behaving like petulant children, making demands and ASSuming they'll be met. Their comeuppance is going to be delightful to watch.
DP

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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.

They are ultra bright, accomplished and hardworking as evidenced by their acceptance to IVYs. They are also willing to fight for what they believe in. Meet your future competitors.

I suggest they sign up for Study Abroad in Palestine next semester.

I love you.

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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?

They are feeling great, their children are getting an education vs. an overpriced worker training program.

Yes, what an incredible education they're getting in their tents, making signs and yelling at passerby. I'd be so proud!

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The difference is that the US is bankrolling Israel.
And BTW the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and our war on Iraq are nothing to gloat about.

I don't remember the hoards of college students shutting down campuses for any of those conflicts.

There were hordes of 20-somethings protesting Iraq in DC. I was one of them, with friends.

Did you disturb any neocon’s brunch with your shouts? Shouting is very disturbing to the establishment. Please protest quietly and politely, preferably at home.

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So, the pro Israeli lobby is saying that these protests make Jewish students “uncomfortable “, by this logic any civil rights or any other significant protests would not have happened because they made white people uncomfortable. But those protests took place and here we are better off because of them.

Change of this magnitude is not achieved without making some people uncomfortable, if that’s the only price Jewish kids have to pay then they should consider themselves very lucky. There are 14000 children buried under concrete in Gaza who would have given anything to endure some minor discomfort.