Even as some were suspended, student activists gathered around their pro-Palestinian encampment.

Even as some were suspended, student activists gathered around their pro-Palestinian encampment.

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  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
    571·
    8 months ago

    Those rapscallions! How can they disobey like that!?! It’s almost as if they are thumbing their noses at the powers that be! Unbelievable!

    That being said, if you’re drawing national attention with your protest, you’re doing it right. Keep it up.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
      155·
      8 months ago

      Doesn’t require an encampment that’s where they’re going wrong and the university will always win. It’s a health issue plain and simple.

      Instead they should be water.

      • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
        261·
        8 months ago

        Your logic is fucked six ways to Sunday. Shooting people =/ peaceful protest.

        • MxM111@kbin.social
          240·
          8 months ago

          Love your first sentence :)

          But I never did say that they are the same. There is a way to point on logical fallacy by taking the logic to the extreme. Also, we may argue about semantics, whether to call protest peaceful or not, but it is a disturbance and against the university rules. There are ways to protest without violating those.

          • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
            251·
            8 months ago

            There is nothing to take to the extreme here. The comment was, “if you’re drawing national attention with your protest, you’re doing it right”. Shooting people is in no way, shape, or form a protest.

            Can you tell me how this protest is different from the ones about Vietnam War or South African Apartheid or Iraq War?

          • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
            81·
            8 months ago

            here is a way to point on logical fallacy by taking the logic to the extreme.

            The problem with this statement is that it requires you to actually use logic to get there, something your original comment sorely lacks.

          • Rookwood@lemmy.world
            71·
            8 months ago

            When you use hyperbole like that you will only win idiots to your side. Maybe that’s what you want. But you are literally comparing this protest to mass murder, whether you are being sincere or not. If you’re not then you have no point. Is breaking university rules as bad as mass murder? No.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
      463·
      8 months ago

      Zero support for tents and encampments.
      They will always lose. It’s considered a health issue.

      • acetanilide@lemmy.world
        92·
        8 months ago

        What about overcrowded refugee camps? Hospitals with no power or running water? Entire cities with murdered people everywhere? Bulldozers running over people? People crushed by falling crates? Operating rooms with no anesthetics?

        Are any of those considered a health issue?

        • Uranium3006@kbin.social
          61·
          8 months ago

          It’s really the college’s fault for not giving into demands already. Nor funding a genocide is a small ask

  • thisismyrealname [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    8 months ago

    At the same time, amid alleged incidents of hate speech, harassment and threats of violence by some participants, Jewish students have voiced concern about their safety on campus.

    proceeds to not point to a single incident or even quote a Jewish Columbia student voicing concern

    almost makes you think the crackdown on and media reaction to these students doesn’t have anything to do with their “antisemitism” thinkin-lenin