Many universities calling in police today also celebrate campus protests of the past
“They try to co-opt this image of campus protest to try to diffuse it into an aesthetic for students to imbibe."
Well of course. The past isn’t challenging their ruling and authority.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
\ Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
This was back when colleges were still focused more on academics and critical thinking.
Now it's about million dollar, MBA presidents, NCAA, alumni money, and the amount of money they generate.
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming...
I think what you're finding is a lot of Americans can barely afford to live anymore and I mean A LOT. While their way of what they consider to be barely living/scraping by is tens of millions of times better than what's going on around the world most are so beaten down for their standard of living the reality is setting in hard and you're seeing the breakdown of a country right before your eyes.
No one besides the privileged people give a shit right now is what you're seeing because the privileged can afford to stand and picket for a night. Many people are one paycheck away from doom or have iron fist bosses that penalize them for missing a single day of work. Don't hate the haters...hate the rich, the landlords, the politicians that don't help the general public anymore that horde all the wealth essentially.
So, GOP voters?
It's almost like each movement should be judged by its own merits
Yes, do we have cause to be against genocide or don’t we? This one is tough. I mean the merits of genocide are obvious but there are drawbacks, too. Those pesky academics can’t see the bigger picture.
Or, generally when students and academics at the world’s top universities start protesting, shit is fucked.
Yeah but this time they really deserve the genocide you see? /s
If you're going to define your movement as anti-genocidal you should really have a firm grasp on what genocide is and who is committing it:
Article II of the Convention defines genocide as:
... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- (a) Killing members of the group;
- (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Hamas, what Israel has been clear they intend to destroy, is not a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. However, Jews/Israel/Israelis, what Hamas has been clear they intend to destroy, are. Therefore, legally Oct 7 was an act of genocide, and Israel's war on Hamas is not. Such a designation has nothing to do with body count.
I support Israel because I oppose the genocidal. Binding their hands and preventing them from retaliating in self-defense only serves to support genocidal Hamas by keeping them in power.
Israel’s Occupation: 50 Years of Dispossession
For half a century, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip has resulted in systematic human rights violations against Palestinians living there. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/
