Worth noting that the universities (and police departments) that ended these protests with violence chose that route because they wanted to end the protests with violence. Not because they had no alternative. - ThreadSky

edburmila.bsky.social • 301 days ago

Worth noting that the universities (and police departments) that ended these protests with violence chose that route because they wanted to end the protests with violence. Not because they had no alternative.

Reposted from Neil Lewis, Jr.

Add Minnesota to the list of schools that have found a peaceful solution.

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bainard.bsky.social•301 days ago

and the most notable incidents of violence all took place in huge blue metro areas (nyc, la, atl, clb)

conflictgeog.bsky.social•301 days ago

Yes. And last night at UCLA Gene Block chose this:

coffmanesq.bsky.social•301 days ago

Likewise, news orgs who report on the protests in and of themselves while not so much as mentioning Gaza are actively choosing to report that way.

tom4okstate.bsky.social•301 days ago

Yeah my response would have been hey if people want to camp on the quad feel free to do that right up to football season

grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social•301 days ago

At least at Columbia they were camping where commencement was going to be held (and it is of course impossible to find another potential venue for such a thing)

edburmila.bsky.social•301 days ago

Violence Enthusiasts are simultaneously arguing that the students are misguided dilettantes and that they could only be dislodged with swift brutality.

idk if you think this is just performative and insincere that suggests they'd leave if you just ignored them!

martyolliff.bsky.social•301 days ago

How can you show the mailed fist inside the velvet glove if you leave the glove on?

edburmila.bsky.social•301 days ago

My siblings in christ all of this happened like two weeks before Spring semester finals, did you consider just waiting to see if most of the students would simply leave when the semester ended.

judet.bsky.social•301 days ago

YES.

Jesus, they'll all fuck off in a couple of weeks on most campuses. Fuckin' Pompey at Pharsalus-ass stupidity.

nothingfromnada.bsky.social•301 days ago

After the first big attack by police during Occupy, Obama got involved and worked with mayors on a strategy to tolerate the encampments while they lost steam and then have a coordinated crackdown once they were weak enough. It sucked.

Biden's inability to take action here is very telling though.

richpuchalsky.bsky.social•301 days ago

If they had waited for the students to leave, they would not have been doing their job. Their job is to beat social compliance into the students.

kakotechnia.bsky.social•301 days ago

Just thinking about the total insanity at the WORST possible time and laughing

locopells.bsky.social•301 days ago

That was the issue with Colombia though, wasn't it? They didn't feel the least bit threatened, but with the semester's end in sight, they wanted the camp out of the way of graduations...

docbs.bsky.social•301 days ago

But Teh Donorz!

aacoek.bsky.social•301 days ago

It was the optics around graduation and the impending invasion of Rafah.

chickenlady.bsky.social•301 days ago

They were told to.
Luckily, one of these got served 8 subpoenas today 😂👇🏻

7amkickoff.com•301 days ago

Yep, like so many of the things that are wrong with this country they are intentional choices. Often made because the cruelty is the point.

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