I'm thinkin' about the fact that Israel leveled every university in Gaza so handing out some flyers seems like a pretty appropriate and restrained act of protest
if you’re claiming the Trump administration made a careful review before illegally cutting their funds…why? What have they done or said that would cause you to believe these are sober judgments they’re making?
Of course the pro-genocide and anti-free speech school @columbiauniversity.bsky.social will Nazify itself for the Orange Shitler! Like, where else would they go after this last year and a half?
Columbia's legal brief in the lawsuit should have photos of German newspaper front pages calling Elon's Nazi salute a Nazi salute. And just say "and we're the Nazis?"
As a scientist of Göttingen, it is just such a shame to see this reaction of the University of Columbia. Such a university should know what happened with German universities (like Göttingen) and should learn of such history
Is it weird that the right only seems to invoke the first amendment when a Nazi isn’t given a microphone and university administrators now use the same framing or seem to have forgotten it exists?
I’m aghast. These people will watch us all get hauled off to the camps or will call the security officers themselves to do it, and they will say, yes, this is how we fight antisemitism and preserve our hallowed institutions, this is freedom
Everyone should just reply to that email with a pic of Elon doing the Nazi salute and tell them the only way to combat anti-semitism is to get Musk the hell gone.
I have to say, I don’t think that anyone responsible for the current stance toward universities had identified them as being uniquely susceptible to the “comply in advance” mentality, but sociologically they so obviously are
We need mass protests on college campuses around the country. We need the names of every college professor that's pro fascism and pro MAGA and we need to picket outside their offices until the university removes them from all positions. We will never bow to murderous tyrants! STAND AND DELIVER MAGA!
Is there more of this? Who wrote it and is there more context here? Who do we write letters to here- this obviously sounds ridiculous and needs to be called out but need a little more context on it.
Remember that every person who works for this institution who isn’t standing up and saying what they stand for, is also in a position of relative wealth, social stature and safety nets that most of us don’t have. This is the testament to their true shameful character, and shall never be forgiven.
And while some resist in sandals to their last breath, other can’t even be bothered to disrupt a public address, or use any of the means granted by their proximity and access to the people and spaces that perpetuate this. What the most deprived humans would only dream of, what they’d die for.
Are they not concerned with any other discrimination?
It would be wonderful if they committed to fighting all bigotry and worked to be more inclusive of all groups.
Your NUMBER ONE priority? Really? Educating students has to take a backseat to harassing Palestinian and Jewish students standing up to fascism? Belittling and expelling them is more important than EDUCATION?
Your rival institutions will thank you for decades.
Meanwhile my friends in Paris are demonstrating at the Jussieu and Sorbonne campuses in support of "La Colombia" [sic]. I don't have the courage to tell them.
Passing by the main entrance yesterday, "protected" by a high gate, stanchions and massive security, all of which is illegal because it closes off a public thoroughfare.
On top of the gate, a crown.
I suppose, if you fail to doff your hat you have to shoot an apple off your son's head.
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The problem, of course, is that Columbia is also caving the the administration's illegitmate, bad-faith 'concerns'.
#WeAreOnOurOwn
no institution in our capitalistic society has the will or incentive to save or protect individual liberties.
The educated 401k crowd thought that they were part of the capitalist class (my “portfolio”).
Perhaps understanding history and language? Like the British Mandate for Palestine…
Are they not concerned with any other discrimination?
It would be wonderful if they committed to fighting all bigotry and worked to be more inclusive of all groups.
Your rival institutions will thank you for decades.
Colombia is the country.
On top of the gate, a crown.
I suppose, if you fail to doff your hat you have to shoot an apple off your son's head.
https://erraticus.co/2019/11/14/the-dude-abides-pragmatism-deontology-nihilism/
This is Columbia.
They love instrumentalizing antisemitism to justify their racism.