Protests on college campuses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe American students are protesting this but have not been protesting Roe being overturned with this much fervor, which has far more direct effect on their lives. I swear it’s a TikTok influence thing.

Many people will go their whole lives without being affected by abortion. It's important, but it's abstract for a lot of people, and more philosophical.

What's happening in Gaza — what we've all seen with our eyes — is far from abstract. Anyone with a pulse can see that it is wrong. And if our government and those in power can justify this, and send billions of our money to fund it, while the people are screaming that they don't want it, there's a big problem.

Really think about that. Our government, full of politicians sucking at the teat of AIPAC, is sending insane amounts of tax payer money, against the will of the majority of those tax payers, to fund a genocide, so some wealthy white colonial settlers can have more beach front property and a new canal.

So we've learned that our government is fully willing to sell out it's own citizens for foreign money, fully willing to support genocide when it makes fiscal and political sense, AND it's willing to jail, threaten, and likely kill dissenters.

Personally, if you're not protesting, I'm not sure what *would* be enough to motivate you to action.

Did you vote for Biden?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many? Do you remember 2003 at all? This is like occupy wall street or something.

No this is serious, young people are questioning why our tax money is funding a genocidal government?

Hahaha they just look like idiots.

[Anonymous]

These college students want their universities to divest from anything related to Israel.

Why don’t they divest themselves from the universities? Just withdraw from the university. If this issue was so important to them, why did they enroll in the first place?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe American students are protesting this but have not been protesting Roe being overturned with this much fervor, which has far more direct effect on their lives. I swear it’s a TikTok influence thing.

Many people will go their whole lives without being affected by abortion. It's important, but it's abstract for a lot of people, and more philosophical.

What's happening in Gaza — what we've all seen with our eyes — is far from abstract. Anyone with a pulse can see that it is wrong. And if our government and those in power can justify this, and send billions of our money to fund it, while the people are screaming that they don't want it, there's a big problem.

Really think about that. Our government, full of politicians sucking at the teat of AIPAC, is sending insane amounts of tax payer money, against the will of the majority of those tax payers, to fund a genocide, so some wealthy white colonial settlers can have more beach front property and a new canal.

So we've learned that our government is fully willing to sell out it's own citizens for foreign money, fully willing to support genocide when it makes fiscal and political sense, AND it's willing to jail, threaten, and likely kill dissenters.

Personally, if you're not protesting, I'm not sure what *would* be enough to motivate you to action.

Yeah, not really. Most Americans don’t GAF. College kids protest. That’s what they do. That’s what I did. Summer is in a few weeks. This is all going to go away, and college students will start up new coursework in fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don't see her touching anybody in the video. She leans down, but I don't think she touches anybody. The first woman arrested in the beginning (black tee shirt, green pants), it looks like she was just walking by the tent and they kind of randomly pick her to arrest.

Video is below. professor walks into the video just after the minute mark.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/04/25/emory-university-pro-palestinian-protest-police-digvid.cnn

[Anonymous]

Yep, it’s all just going to go away.

Nothing big happening this Fall.

/s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

She thonks she's s.p.e.c.i.a.l.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don't see her touching anybody in the video. She leans down, but I don't think she touches anybody. The first woman arrested in the beginning (black tee shirt, green pants), it looks like she was just walking by the tent and they kind of randomly pick her to arrest.

Video is below. professor walks into the video just after the minute mark.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/04/25/emory-university-pro-palestinian-protest-police-digvid.cnn

That professor of economics went down faster than the US dollar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, it’s all just going to go away.

Nothing big happening this Fall.

/s

Watch. You’ll learn. You seem new to how this goes.

[Anonymous]

Now her social media is blowing up…. Lol. Her whole career shot in one afternoon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, it’s all just going to go away.

Nothing big happening this Fall.

/s

Watch. You’ll learn. You seem new to how this goes.

I have a very good idea how it’s going to be on college campuses this Fall. And it’s not going to be calm, like the PP implied.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe American students are protesting this but have not been protesting Roe being overturned with this much fervor, which has far more direct effect on their lives. I swear it’s a TikTok influence thing.

Many people will go their whole lives without being affected by abortion. It's important, but it's abstract for a lot of people, and more philosophical.

What's happening in Gaza — what we've all seen with our eyes — is far from abstract. Anyone with a pulse can see that it is wrong. And if our government and those in power can justify this, and send billions of our money to fund it, while the people are screaming that they don't want it, there's a big problem.

Really think about that. Our government, full of politicians sucking at the teat of AIPAC, is sending insane amounts of tax payer money, against the will of the majority of those tax payers, to fund a genocide, so some wealthy white colonial settlers can have more beach front property and a new canal.

So we've learned that our government is fully willing to sell out it's own citizens for foreign money, fully willing to support genocide when it makes fiscal and political sense, AND it's willing to jail, threaten, and likely kill dissenters.

Personally, if you're not protesting, I'm not sure what *would* be enough to motivate you to action.

Did you vote for Biden?

I did. I won't be this time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don't see her touching anybody in the video. She leans down, but I don't think she touches anybody. The first woman arrested in the beginning (black tee shirt, green pants), it looks like she was just walking by the tent and they kind of randomly pick her to arrest.

Video is below. professor walks into the video just after the minute mark.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/04/25/emory-university-pro-palestinian-protest-police-digvid.cnn

That professor of economics went down faster than the US dollar.

So funny to watch grown men beat up defenseless old women! MAGA!!!

[Anonymous]

earlier this week in Washington DC, American University students marched to the president’s office building to demand that the administration divest from Israel

washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/23/protests-american-university-israel-gaza-college-campus/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, it’s all just going to go away.

Nothing big happening this Fall.

/s

Watch. You’ll learn. You seem new to how this goes.

I have a very good idea how it’s going to be on college campuses this Fall. And it’s not going to be calm, like the PP implied.

Yes, it will. This is a springtime “I’ve finished my finals” activity. You’re beyond naive to think otherwise.