What’s happening at Columbia?

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

We all say, "LOL" with stuff like that.

But, in this case, I really did.

[Jolly]

A different perspective ...This guy is rooting for the protesters...

https://theaspenbeat.com/2024/04/29/im-rooting-for-the-protesters/

[89th]

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

We all say, "LOL" with stuff like that.

But, in this case, I really did.

I call that the LLOL (literally laughed out loud)

What I would pay for a nice mass arrest video, it would be so great.

[Copper]

Deport 'em.

Deport 'em all.

[Jolly]

We're building this pier...And there are plenty of cruise ships...

[Mik]

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

A different perspective ...This guy is rooting for the protesters...

https://theaspenbeat.com/2024/04/29/im-rooting-for-the-protesters/

He nails it pretty well.

[Copper]

Here’s why.

Because the protests are revealing the rot in American universities.

Yup

[George K]

The absolute BALLS...

https://www.campusreform.org/article/no-food-you-hungry-hamas-endorsed-columbia-building-occupiers-beg-administrators-feed/25365

A Columbia University protester representing anti-Israel campus occupation protesters asked the institution to provide people occupying Hamilton Hall with food and water.

During a press conference on Tuesday, the individual said that Columbia is “obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan here.”

”I guess it’s ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Colombia feels it has to its students? Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you?,” graduate student Johannah King-Slutzky asked.

The protester said that food and water for occupation protesters “is like basic humanitarian aid.”

”We’re asking for, like, could people please have a glass of water?,” the individual said.

[Renauda]

Let them dehydrate and starve.

Freeze their bank accounts too. When they realize they have lost access to money they’ll come out with their hands up.

[Mik]

No sympathy whatsoever. These kids embody white privilege.

[Axtremus]

https://wapo.st/44n2PRy

Very nice graphics to help visualize "how pro-Palestinian college protests have grown."

[George K]

Perhaps the Washington Post could have labeled it "How anti-Israeli college protests have grown."

[Jolly]

If these were Hitler Youth protesting Jews, wonder how long it would take to shut this down?

Better yet, label them January 6 protesters...At least then we'd have the bulk of the FBI working all camera shots and social media available...

[LuFins Dad]

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

Perhaps the Washington Post could have labeled it "How anti-Israeli college protests have grown."

Isn’t Pro-Palestinian worse than Anti-Israel? I mean, by definition Pro-Palestinian is anti-Israel, then add on pro-inbreeding, pro-spousal rape, pro-killing gays, pro-patriarchal societies, pro-raping and killing civilians…

I mean, being ProPalestine means being for some really sick shit.

[LuFins Dad]

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

If these were Hitler Youth protesting Jews, wonder how long it would take to shut this down?

Better yet, label them January 6 protesters...At least then we'd have the bulk of the FBI working all camera shots and social media available...

This is Hitler Youth protesting Jews…

[George K]

Umm, considering the breadth of these "protests" why isn't the FBI looking at this coordination as a RICO violation?

[Axtremus]

@LuFins-Dad said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

Isn’t Pro-Palestinian worse than Anti-Israel? I mean, by definition Pro-Palestinian is anti-Israel, then add on pro-inbreeding, pro-spousal rape, pro-killing gays, pro-patriarchal societies, pro-raping and killing civilians…

I mean, being ProPalestine means being for some really sick shit.

That's an important question. I have read articles critical of these campus protests use the term "pro-Hamas", which seems like a strawman switcharoo. Not many articles actually report what exactly the protesters protest against. It's possible that different individual protesters protests against different things. (I also haven't look into this detail, frankly I haven't follow this campus protest stuff all that closely.)

They way you approach this, equating "pro-Palestine" with "pro-[a bunch of other things you do not approve of]," supposedly the same can be applied to "pro-Israel"; e.g., "pro-taking/occupation of land by force," "pro-bombing hospitals," "pro-bombing civilians," "pro-mass displacement of civilians," etc. An approach conducive to neither truth, peace, nor understanding.

As it is, I am not even sure "pro-Palestine" is an accurate characterization of these campus protests, but I do not object to you using that term for the simple reason that you were responding to the WaPo article that uses that term.

Maybe some news org will get around to sampling and tabulating the many different things that the protesters are protesting against and create some nice graphics to help visualize the issues being protested.

[Jolly]

NYPD just chunked them out of Hamilton Hall and loaded them on police busses.

[Jolly]

BTW, The Dersh just issued a challenge...ANY Jewish student at Columbia that feels he has been physically threatened and his civil rights have been abridged, call Dersh and he will represent them pro bono.