Maroon Dawn said:

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All the ones in blue states with Soros DAs will face zero actual consequences

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annie88 said:

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kag00 said:

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I thought they were standing up for their beliefs? That has a cost but they don't understand that since they have been coddled their entire lives. This is entertainment to them, not real action where there are real consequences.

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I am old enough to remember anti-war protesters being proud of their arrest records. Showed their dedication, in their minds at least.

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And yet many of those same protesters are still rabid liberals who have become tyrannical themselves. With vaccines, and other things.

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aggiehawg said:

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kag00 said:

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I thought they were standing up for their beliefs? That has a cost but they don't understand that since they have been coddled their entire lives. This is entertainment to them, not real action where there are real consequences.

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I am old enough to remember anti-war protesters being proud of their arrest records. Showed their dedication, in their minds at least.

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Aglaw97 said:

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People are free to act dumb and make mistakes. I've made PLENTY in my life. But you do people no favors by removing the consequences. I'm a better person for having dealt with the consequences. That's life. Wish more people understood this.

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Watching the idiocy on college campuses this week and seeing all the explanations for protests in favor of murderous Hamas, two tweets seem particularly on point. There's the great David Burge (Iowahawk), who calls these outbursts "Hamas slumber parties," and says, "This is like staging a pro-Nazi lunch counter sit-in and getting mad that people won't treat you like you're a modern-day Rosa Parks." He attributes protests for the Intifada and slogans reading "from the River to the Sea" by numbskulls who have admittedly no idea what they are protesting as the result of baby-proofing houses. "There is," he says, "no better educational experience for a child than finding out what happens when you stick a butter knife into an electrical outlet."

I think he's right. Helicopter parents who shield kids from the consequences of their actions have raised a generation of reckless, entitled, ill-educated brats. (I'd add to his admonition the habit of so many parents to spend evenings "helping" their kids with their homework. My view is they either do it or don't and, if they don't, they can learn the consequences.)

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aggiehawg said:

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annie88 said:

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aggiehawg said:

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kag00 said:

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I thought they were standing up for their beliefs? That has a cost but they don't understand that since they have been coddled their entire lives. This is entertainment to them, not real action where there are real consequences.

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I am old enough to remember anti-war protesters being proud of their arrest records. Showed their dedication, in their minds at least.

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And yet many of those same protesters are still rabid liberals who have become tyrannical themselves. With vaccines, and other things.

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Rebels without a cause. Nature abhors a vacuum. They have to find something for which they can be outraged.

It was Obama that brought normalization to Bill Ayers and his wife who were terrorists. Ayers was "just a guy from the neighborhood: to Obama.

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BQ_90 said:

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They want the Bill Clinton treatment

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The troubles on Columbia University's campus began over six months ago, long before last week's protests. Shortly after Hamas' October 7th attack on Israel, a box truck covered in LED screens displaying the names and photos of dozens of Columbia students started circling a pro-Palestine protest near the university's Morningside Heights campus. The truck, paid for by the conservative nonprofit Accuracy in Media, called the students "Columbia's Leading Antisemites."

"I literally did not leave my apartment the days my friends told me about it," a computer science undergraduate, whose name was listed on the truck, told me outside the Columbia encampment on Tuesday afternoon. The student, who did not wish to be identified for fairly obvious reasons, said her name was listed on the truck because a club she was no longer a part of had signed onto an open letter urging Columbia to cut ties with Israel. It was a traumatizing experience for her. "I completely wiped as much as I could of my online presence and stayed in my apartment as much as I could," the student said. "I felt like I couldn't go to classes."

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Like most of the other people who filtered in and out of the encampment, the student stayed masked as we spoke. Students covered their faces with surgical masks, sunglasses, and kaffiyehs, both to prevent spreading covid-19 in close quarters and to shield themselves from the prying eyes of outsiders who they feared would target them over their involvement in the encampment.

At Columbia and elsewhere, pro-Palestine protesters have attempted to balance their public-facing activism with increasingly dire concerns over their privacy and safety. People who have attended marches or rallies, organized fundraisers for displaced Palestinians, or belonged to certain campus clubs have found themselves and even their families on the receiving end of relentless online harassment after their names were publicized by anonymous accounts that claim to combat antisemitism. In some cases, they have even lost their jobs.

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Kraft Punk said:

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Awww poor terrorists

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The students' plight has become a central part of protests, with students and a growing number of faculty demanding their amnesty. At issue is whether universities and law enforcement will clear the charges and withhold other consequences, or whether the suspensions and legal records will follow students into their adult lives...Questions about their academic futures remain. Will they be allowed to take final exams? What about financial aid? Graduation? Columbia says outcomes will be decided at disciplinary hearings, but Alwan says she has not been given a date. "This feels very dystopian," said Alwan, a comparative literature and society major...For international students facing suspension, there is the added fear of losing their visas, said Radhika Sainath, an attorney with Palestine Legal, which helped a group of Columbia students file a federal civil rights complaint against the school Thursday. It accuses Columbia of not doing enough to address discrimination against Palestinian students. "The level of punishment is not even just draconian, it feels like over-the-top callousness," Sainath said...More than 40 students were arrested at a Yale demonstration last week, including senior Craig Birckhead-Morton. He is due to graduate May 20 but says the university has not yet told him if his case will be submitted to a disciplinary panel. He worries about whether he will receive a diploma and if his acceptance to Columbia graduate school could be at risk.

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