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NYPD arrests Palestine activists at Columbia library as school negotiates with Trump
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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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.