Columbia called police on their students, on campus, just as they had done on the same exact day 56 years earlier to clear protests against the Vietnam war (they called 1 thousand police then on their own students)🧵 www.yahoo.com/news/police-... - ThreadSky

timnitgebru.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Columbia called police on their students, on campus, just as they had done on the same exact day 56 years earlier to clear protests against the Vietnam war (they called 1 thousand police then on their own students)🧵
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-clear-columbia-protest-just-115512221.html

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miolfhiodha.bsky.social•1 day ago

Karma and all that jazz

athenabear2024.bsky.social•1 day ago

“Lies” by Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Telling lies to the young is wrong.
Proving to them that lies are true is wrong.
Telling them that God’s in His Heaven and all’s well with the world is wrong.”
This poem addresses deception and manipulation, making it relevant to gaslighting.

timnitgebru.bsky.social•1 day ago

➡️Two of their students, former IDF members, chemically attacked Palestinian and Jewish students students just for their anti-genocide stance, without any repercussions to those students.

➡️They used face recognition on their students to further target and harass them.

timnitgebru.bsky.social•1 day ago

➡️ They banned Jewish Voice for Peace and SJP from their campus.

And these are only the things off the top of my head. They still didn't escape the wrath of the orange man however. They still lost hundreds of millions in funding.

The lesson?

timnitgebru.bsky.social•1 day ago

You will NEVER appease the fascists. You will only be met with moving goalposts. But each time you preemptively comply, you're laying the groundwork for worse and not just to others but to yourself.
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03/07/trump-administration-cuts-400-million-in-federal-funding-to-columbia/

timnitgebru.bsky.social•1 day ago

At least the university could have said that they were on the right side of history. At least they could have said they were fighting back. But that's not what they did. They harassed their students and still didn't satisfy the fascists.

roseatespoonbill.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because Columbia’s administrators and those of most universities essentially have the same politics as Orange Mussolini, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc. The fascists aren’t attacking the administrators, but the students and the concept of education. The silent complicity is by the tenured faculty.

tired-native.bsky.social•1 day ago

And they will probably not learn from this experience.

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