NYPD arrests Palestine activists at Columbia library as school negotiates with Trump
NYPD arrests Palestine activists at Columbia library as school negotiates with Trump
Fucking lost your country when a school has to negotiate with the fucking POTUS over a protest, but here we are
I've been hearing from americans my whole life, how the rest of the world doesn't actually have free speech, while the USA has complete and total free speech, and is the most free country in the world ('Murica fuck yeee). Well congratulations americans, you can no longer voice your opinion in a private university without being arrested by the government. A university that WANT'S you to voice your opinion none the less. They're not even trespassing, they have permission from this privately owned entity, to voice their opinion on this privately owned piece of land.
America is a sick joke now
those americans were idiots and white
If you can transfer to another school then absolutely do it. If they'll sell you out for protesting genocide they'll sell you out for being socialist, antifa, or a "DEI student".
Nazis can March in Charlottesville but I guess Republicans liked those "protesters."
Nazi America
Fascism is here folks. Stock up on guns and ammo. Help others you know do the same.
ACAB
Fucking pigs, biggest gang in Ny.
Pathetic losers trying to negotiate with Trump, the upper level faculty of Columbia have already failed by even entering into a conversation with Trump under the guise that the destruction of Academia was an unintended consequence not Literally The Point.
The place of faculty "negotiating" with Trump was showing up with the students in solidarity and getting arrested.
...and before anyone goes into a response like "they are afraid of losing their job", I get that but there will be no future for anyone in academia in the US if we lose the fight today that we are losing, fight now, it is now or never.
Hopefully this will be like the law firms that caved. They've lost a lot of clients and future prospects. Who would want to be involved with such institutions? Definitely no one with ethics or morals. So I'm sure they will probably be all right in the end. But in the meantime there's going to be a lot of realignment.
Oh absolutely, and this isn't a schadenfreude or even ethical thing, this is purely a public safety thing.
These people who have immense material but more importantly ideological power to resist fascism and authoritarianism and yet have been utter cowards need to be shamed and shunned out of places of power and respect in society, or else we will inveitably bring about another era of mass scale violence and suffering like the one we have just ushered in with the Palestinian Genocide and a host of a million other abdications of valuing human life at a basic level.
I am considering getting a graduate degree in science, but one of my first questions to an advisor would be, can and will this institution stand up to an authoritarian leader who challenges the integrity of free speech in the society the university is in?
Actually my first question would be whether the university has ever acquiesed to the cowardice of conflating antisemitism with being against a genocide because it is politically convenient and allowed their students to be arrested for peacefully protesting without using EVERY tool at the universities disposal to resist, no matter how existentially the authoritarian leader threatened the university.
Unfortunately most U.S. universities, even prominent ones that used to claim to be centers of free speech and freedom of thought like Columbia fail at this test in a spectacular fashion and are now complete jokes in my eyes. Anyone who goes there and isn't lividly angry about this is just telling on themselves for being a naive fool and putting a professional label on themselves that says "I AM WITH STUPID"... or maybe "stupid" is too harsh, how about "I AM WITH THE GENOCIDE DENIERS"?
Even more unfortunately, as someone who was has lived my whole life in the U.S., I can think of no more damning proof that the U.S. is an embarassing backwater nation full of cowardly racists subjugating people far more capable and open minded than them.
JD Vance went over to Europe to lecture them on free speech while students in the US were being arrested for having the wrong opinions on the genocide that the US is paying for.
He was whining that Europe was starting to push back on far-right disinfo operations like Twitter and Facebook...that the US/MAGA party is paying for.
Like always, they want protection and sympathy for themselves, and vengeance upon everyone else.
Should have just said thank you...
Representative Stefanik, a vocal critic of Columbia, hammered the university on X after the arrests.
“President @realDonaldTrump is right: not a single taxpayer dollar should go to a university that allows chaos, antisemitism, and civil rights violations on its campus. Columbia must act – enough is enough,” she wrote.
......what? This paragraph makes no sense. How is this quote hammering the university, when it agrees with their actions?
Doesn't matter if anything is legal or not (see: deporting aliens). This administration is doing whatever it wants to stop what it doesn't like then allowing it to play out in court. Like a super villain, this is Trump's "super power".