What’s happening at Columbia?

[LuFins Dad]

That really borders on the fringe of domestic terror charges.

[George K]

Link to video

[taiwan_girl]

@Renauda said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

She shouldn’t graduate. She can barely form sentences and uumm talks like uumm a 14 year old uumm bopper.

She needs a speech coach.

Her crying sounds like a laugh.

[George K]

Commencement cancelled:

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/06/columbia-university-graduation-commencement-canceled?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social

[George K]

Is Harvard getting serious?

[Mik]

With any luck.

[Copper]

@George-K said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

Is Harvard getting serious?

Next they'll be wearing MAGA hats.

[89th]

[George K]

[George K]

13 federal judges say they will no longer hire clerks from Columbia Law School OR Columbia College after the university allowed an encampment on its lawn to spiral into a destructive occupation of a campus building.

[Copper]

In a post to X, formerly Twitter, Tom McClellan, the editor of The McClellan Market Report said that he will no longer be hiring "any recent graduate of Columbia, because that school is so tainted.

Similarly, consultant Warren Kinsella said: "At the firm I founded 18 years ago, and in the war rooms I've run for the past 31 years, I've employed hundreds of young people. I'll never again hire one from @Columbia."

https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-columbia-alumni-1895244

[89th]

I watch these videos of these cosplay protestors and sincerely want to know if deep down they really know the futility of their actions and the consequences of their actions… I think they feel trapped to play the part and justify their actions. When they asked the cake eater above if she would do it again you could sense the hesitancy as logic set in for a brief moment before she continued on script.

[George K]

Interview with the janitor.

Mario Torres describes the experience of being on duty as protesters stormed the building in the early hours of the morning, breaking glass and barricading the entrances. “We don’t expect to go to work and get swarmed by an angry mob with rope and duct tape and masks and gloves,” he said.

“They came from both sides of the staircases. They came through the elevators and they were just rushing. It was just like, they had a plan.” Mario said protesters with zip ties, duct tape, and masks “just multiplied and multiplied.”

At one point, he remembers “looking up and I noticed the cameras are covered.” It made him think: “This was definitely planned.”

Torres was trying to “protect the building” when he ended up in an altercation with Carlson: “He had a Columbia hoodie on, and I managed to rip that hoodie off of him and expose his face.” (Carlson was later charged with five felonies, including burglary and reckless endangerment.) “I was freaking out. At that point, I’m thinking about my family. How was I gonna get out? Through the window?”

Torres has not been to campus since the incident. He says he does not feel safe. “When it comes to the public safety, the workers’ safety, people don’t feel comfortable walking through a mob to punch in to get into campus. That’s crazy,” he said.

He added that he’s worried Columbia might take disciplinary action against him for speaking out. He worries about losing a job he loves. He worries about supporting his young family.

“Is Columbia going to retaliate and find a reason to fire me? Is someone going to come after me? So I’m taking a big risk doing this, but I think that they failed. They failed us. And I think that’s the bigger story. They failed us. They should have done more to protect us, and they didn’t.”

[Horace]

These cosplayers are consuming the resource of incivility. They make civil situations uncivil. In the civilization economy, their incivility is a scarce resource to be consumed. They depend on the rest of the world to be more civil than they are. Otherwise the whole situation devolves to chaos, as both sides become uncivil. They can do these things on their civilized campuses where they're sure they'll be the only ones consuming the incivility resource. They can't do them in armed places with citizenry that really wouldn't mind just killing all of them for the inconvenience they cause. "Try that in a small town" springs to mind.

[George K]

@Horace said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

They can't do them in armed places with citizenry that really wouldn't mind just killing all of them for the inconvenience they cause.

Where's Officer Byrd when we need him?

[George K]

A second call for lawfare - the process is the punishment.

[Renauda]

Similarly, consultant Warren Kinsella said: "At the firm I founded 18 years ago, and in the war rooms I've run for the past 31 years, I've employed hundreds of young people. I'll never again hire one from @Columbia."

I knew Warren Kinsella from grad school back in the early 1980s. He was in Poli Sci, active on the Students Union and president of the campus Liberal Party organisation. Big supporter then of John Turner. Has remained affiliated and a go to contractor with Liberal machine until the Trudeau era. Operates Daisy Consulting Group out of Toronto.

Never thought much of him. I do however agree with him on this issue.

[Horace]

I don't see how categorical denials of all students at an institution follows from a few students at that institution behaving badly.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

I don't see how categorical denials of all students at an institution follows from a few students at that institution behaving badly.

I for one will never hire another Austrian.

[George K]