see, here's the thing. columbia could hold a big press conference tomorrow, saying this is absolutely unacceptable and we will do anything legally possible to protect our students. Or they could shrug and say they had a warrant, maybe, we think, and we didn't like that guy anyway. - ThreadSky

tomtomorrow.bsky.social • 2 days ago

see, here's the thing. columbia could hold a big press conference tomorrow, saying this is absolutely unacceptable and we will do anything legally possible to protect our students. Or they could shrug and say they had a warrant, maybe, we think, and we didn't like that guy anyway.

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mrtoads.bsky.social•2 days ago

How many universities won’t be Good Germans? I’m inclined to think not too many.

bearpondboy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wee-nies.

cascadetommy.bsky.social•1 day ago

The previous president of columbia claims to be some kind of big expert on and friend of free speech

https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/about/experts/lee-c-bollinger/

gastropoda.bsky.social•2 days ago

Months ago food historians were lamenting that they were no longer able to get onto Columbia's campus to access the library. And here we are...

tomtomorrow.bsky.social•2 days ago

it's hardly the most important thing but as a neighborhood resident I profoundly resent that they have locked off what is legally required to be a public thoroughfare

gastropoda.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also, too, don't get sidewalk vendors started on how Columbia pays no taxes...

gastropoda.bsky.social•2 days ago

We get furious every Thursday when we go up to the Greenmarket and can't cut across the campus. (In December we went to Cambridge & were able to stroll freely around Harvard.)

hammancheez.bsky.social•1 day ago

And their weaseling will do them no good from any quarter

billypilgrim65.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes, the silence of Columbia leadership is deafening. Absolutely shameful

tomtomorrow.bsky.social•2 days ago

if you don't see where people you may not like getting disappeared by the government is heading I honestly don't know what to say

tomtomorrow.bsky.social•2 days ago

we're really not gonna survive this if the response is "well they had a warrant (we think)"

crookedknight.bsky.social•2 days ago

"It'd be really bad if they didn't have a warrant, so let's just assume they did"

ccarter84.bsky.social•1 day ago

Weird, you'd think a place was such a well-known law school, might have a few folks that could consult

odanaos.bsky.social•2 days ago

First they came for the pro-Palestinian students and I did not speak up, because I didn't like them...

baj.bsky.social•1 day ago

I will be surprised, and frankly a little relieved, if they feel compelled to say anything at all.

blahpers.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean they already said they were fine if they didn't have a warrant so they have kinda already stated their position on this

revmod.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm old enough to remember when "Making student dissidents disappear" would have been crossing a pretty bright red line into undeniably fascist rule.

morrisnormal.bsky.social•1 day ago

The line is still there being crossed, whether the media admits it or not

bobotron808.bsky.social•2 days ago

The absence of the first is the implication of the second.

abecedarian.bsky.social•1 day ago

They're going with plan B

nsilv.bsky.social•1 day ago

What say you @ColumbiaUniversity?

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