Reminder: When a person or institution you hate is targeted for illiberal persecution by an aspiring authoritarian, you have to defend them EVEN IF you don't like them. It doesn't matter if you don't like campus protestors or Columbia or the law firms. We must defend them or we're all at risk next.
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You let their fall serve as a message and rally around those who deserve protection and are willing to change. Columbia has shown its all in on defending Israel.
Dems need to decide if defending Israel's crimes are worth losing America to fascism because there is no path towards electoral victory for them which continues to make excuses for genocide.
Columbia made their bed and is committed to lying in it.
Defending Columbia from fascist moves that will be extended to others next if allowed to proceed in their case? Might be a good idea, not for their sake but for everyone else's.
Some schools have stood by sound moral principles, and they're where we need to circle those wagons.
The "person or institution you hate" being referred to here is Mahmoud Khalil, not Columbia University.
https://bsky.app/profile/brendannyhan.bsky.social/post/3ljyblfm67s24
Also i wish this app had a “thanks, I hate it” option instead of me having to ❤️ that.
And a "Classical Liberal" is a right winger with a graduate degree.
NO. When a person or institution you hate is targeted you have to defend them IF YOU HAVE SUFFICIENT POWER THAT YOU CAN CHANGE THINGS.
The feds target one grad student? Adding even one voice changes the equation. They target rich law firms? My time is better spent elsewhere.
Resist strategically, not reflexively.
You deserve it.
I don’t support them one bit as people, but just wondering.
"we fight for your right to be against us"
https://youtu.be/S7Rl6XgkWUg?feature=shared&t=53
https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-department-israel-gaza-human-rights-horrors
So only if you have a soul. Which I doubt.
Otherwise it is *you* that should have this coming down on your head
Just as you don't need to have sympathy for murderers to insist that they deserve lawyers.
But if helped unleash this Trump fascism and misery on millions of people, including Palestinians, he would not receive my sympathy.
The law says how a green card is to be revoked. If they want to revoke it they need to follow that process.
Not by disappearing people.