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Anonymous wrote:NYU. Not ok to withhold diplomas over war crime outrage.

That was not why it was withheld. It was withheld bc:
1. Kid submitted a script for the speech along with others who did the same.
2. Kid was gifted the oppty to speak at graduation based on a script he was supposed to follow.
3. Kid knew all along he was going to speak what he wanted to.
4. He stole the oppty from someone else who followed the rules and submitted their scripts and would have otherwise gotten the oppty to talk but for his lie.
5. He chose to speak his views not on a street corner where people can listen or not, but to a captive audience who had no choice but to listen
5a. The venue he spoke at was a celebratory event of people who worked years to finish an expensive edication endeavor. This was not the place to politicize it.
6. Your view is that he said what you believe in, so you think it’s appropriate. That is not what makes it appropriate.
7. Very likely he signed something that said he would say what the script says.

What he did was gross…and I would feel this way regardless what position he took:

Pro life
Pro choice
Israel
Palestine

Etc. the exact polarizing message isn’t the determining factor as to whether he was right or wrong.

You’re missing the point. The school shouldn’t have disallowed that commentary in the first place, leading to his covert attempt to save civilian lives. He showed courage taking a risk. Withholding a diploma for calling out war crimes is shameful. Cutting the mic at some point is the limit of what should’ve happened. History will be on the student’s side. I feel sorry for the other students because of the admin reaction, not the speaker.

He should be in jail.

You just demonstrated his courage. He will always be a target of extremists like you.

NP: you have an inability to see any side but your own. I choose to not engage again with you.