Why Academics Leftists and Elitists Need to Treat Ordinary Americans With Respect

[thethe]

eh...i think you are overattributing rational and strategic thinking and a unified approach to what is a pretty heterogenous group

at a minimum their tactics aren't well-designed if their purpose is to attract wider support for the Palestinian cause...which tells me that at least for a core group within the larger protest group there is probably some other goal

Fine people on both sides....

[sturg33]

Law and order for thee presidents, but not mee professors!

[Tapate50]

What a bunch of listless losers

[nsacpi]

On Wednesday morning, on a corner across the street from Columbia University, a man dressed in black, a huge gold cross around his neck, brandished a sign that featured a bloodstained Israeli flag and the word “genocide” in capital letters. He was also shouting at the top of his lungs.

“The Jews control the world! Jews are murderers!”

I watched as a pro-Palestine protester approached the man. “That is horribly antisemitic,” she said. “You are hurting the movement and you are not a part of us. Go away.”

The man shouted vile, unprintable epithets back at her, but the woman, who told me she had come to New York from her home in Baltimore to support the protesting students, walked away.

Hours later, a well-known congressional reporter covering House Speaker Mike Johnson’s visit to Columbia’s campus posted a photograph of the same man. “One sign here at the Columbia protest,” the reporter, Jake Sherman, wrote. “This man is ranting about Jews controlling the universe.”

The man wasn’t “at the Columbia protest.” The university’s campus has been closed to outsiders for over a week — even as a journalist and an alumnus, I had trouble getting in. He was, several people on social media told Sherman, a well-known antisemitic crank completely unconnected from what was unfolding on campus. Indeed, last week I had seen a man wearing an identical cross carrying a similarly lettered sign that read, “Google it! Jews vs. TikTok” protesting outside Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Lower Manhattan. He was, for the record, standing on the pro-Trump side of the protest area.

But the incident is emblematic of how difficult it has become to make sense of what is actually happening on college campuses right now. As the protests have spread to dozens of campuses and counting, competing viral clips on social media paint vastly different versions of what’s happening inside these pro-Palestine camps. Are they violent conflict zones, filled with militant protesters who hurl antisemitic abuse and threaten Jewish students, requiring, as some political leaders have suggested, deployment of the National Guard? Or is it a giant love-fest of students braiding daisy chains and singing “Kumbaya”?

I tried to figure this out the only way I know how: by reporting. I happened to have been on campus on April 18, the day Columbia’s president, Minouche Shafik, decided to call in the New York Police Department to clear the protesters from campus, and I returned a week later to spend the day reporting on the protests and the mood on campus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/o...smid=url-share

[sturg33]

Definitely very fine people on both sides

[sturg33]

Well done, academics

[nsacpi]

Any prohibition on sex with camels?

[sturg33]

[Tapate50]

Put them behind bars

[sturg33]

L
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What a joke the academies have become

[sturg33]

While it's true this is one of the more retarded posts in Twitter history, he does have a PhD. Can us dumb rubes afford to dismiss it?

[sturg33]

The only reason society doesn't treat the hammer & sickle symbol more harshly than the swastika is because our academics have failed us in educating, while promoting the virtues of the former

[Tapate50]

White frat boys cleaning up the Arizona Tempe campus lol

[sturg33]

Commies gonna commie. No brains. Just mindless foot soldiers

[nsacpi]

Commies gonna commie. No brains. Just mindless foot soldiers

Someone needs to explain to these students that they can ask other people to leave their own private property. But they can't ask other students to leave space on a campus that doesn't belong to them.

They also need to have it explained to them that free speech goes both ways. They are free to hold their protest. As are those who have different point of views. It is a very good learning experience to find out at an early age that when you push the rest of the world will sometimes push back. That's how the world works.

It aint that complicated.

[sturg33]

Someone needs to explain to these students that they can ask other people to leave their own private property. But they can't ask other students to leave space on a campus that doesn't belong to them.

They also need to have it explained to them that free speech goes both ways. They are free to hold their protest. As are those who have different point of views. It is a very good learning experience to find out at an early age that when you push the rest of the world will sometimes push back. That's how the world works.

It aint that complicated.

That someone may be the academics and the academic institutions, but as we have all learned, they are a joke

[Tapate50]

Too busy teaching Harry Potter classes

[sturg33]

Too busy teaching Harry Potter classes

Sadly one of the least useless use cases of modern academia

[sturg33]

Commies gonna commie

[Tapate50]

Morons gonna moron