dippins.bsky.social
Chemistry student at Columbia University in The City of New York.
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If this is how the administration chooses to handle this crisis, then they are no better than self-made caricature of the movement they seek to destroy.
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That they do not believe in the ideals they try to censure the University for failing to uphold. That fear, the chilling of free expression, and the weaponization of the law are now available tools to enforce compliance.
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Though the Department of Homeland Security made no arrests tonight, their mission was a success. By raiding the homes of students in the middle of the night, the current administration has made clear one thing already suspected by many.
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I see entire (and successful) political campaigns built on the premise of hurting others.
And I see members of my university community cheer as a man is torn from his heavily pregnant wife and disappeared without due process, simply because they disagreed with him.
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2: what we have become.
A phrase I catch myself saying a lot these days is “at some point in the last few years, you decided it was ok to hate your fellow American”. I see it everywhere. I see people get excited when a natural disaster hits a state that voted differently from them.
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If I grew up reading books that described slavery as “beneficial” or insisted that the south seceded for their rights, I could easily imagine the bigoted vitriol that could flow out of me. It is through the free exchange of ideas, and uncomfortable conversations, that I have become the man I am now.
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From that discomfort grew compassion, empathy, and a sense of justice integral to who I am today. If I had not learned this history, I don’t know who I would be. I cannot help but draw parallels to my home country of the USA, and watching its attempts to whitewash our history.
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Upon reflection, those moments of discomfort were the most important part of my education. That discomfort, and encouragement from my university community pushed me to be better—to better understand the pain *my* ancestors had brought upon innocent others.
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While England represents the home of my loving family and my ancestral roots, to many others it represents pain, oppression, persecution, and so much more for good reason. Learning the history of England, and other students’ visceral and raw reactions to that history made me uncomfortable.
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A university in which you risk being offended is the only university worth attending. My father immigrated to the United States from England. By virtue of the birth lottery, I get to say I have two passports. Though I love England and what it represents to me, I know not everyone feels the same.
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1: Freedom of speech is most important and most vulnerable when it is used by people you don’t like to say things you don’t like. To somewhat ironically quote Douglas Murray: “A society in which you risk being offended is the only society worth living in”.
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This is not normal, and it is not acceptable. As a student at Columbia, I have been very critical of the protestors, and disagree with them on most of their points. At this critical moment in higher education, I’m left with two inescapable thoughts.
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A few hours after that, at midnight, the student body received an urgent email from the office of the president confirming that two residence halls had been raided by the Department of Homeland Security, and that the school’s hands were tied.
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A few hours after the disciplinary proceedings had concluded, a letter from the Federal Government was sent to Columbia, demanding outlandish and draconian concessions that would stifle free thought and damage the integrity of higher education.
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Hollow Knight final boss. The music starts off packed with action, but when you get to phase 2, it turns into a beautifully sad song. If you paid attention to the lore, you realize why: the boss *wants* to die, and is trying to help you complete your objective.
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If you have an Apple device, the native podcast app has the show.
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Humble? This is the second rudest man on the radio you’re talking about. Obviously fake account.