acesfull86
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May want to update your priors on that one
Why Academics Leftists and Elitists Need to Treat Ordinary Americans With Respect
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May want to update your priors on that one
Talk about misdirection to the point I was making.
chop2chip
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This is such a weird take to have.
Hamas didn’t murder those babies because it’s war. Next level semantics
Call it murder or call it war crimes. It’s all the same in the end. Jesus
cajunrevenge
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Wut?
cajunrevenge
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Everything over there is about retaliation for something. I am not trying to say its okay, just that its not happening in a vacuum. Both sides have murdered innocent kids and both sides justify it by the other side doing it. They treat Palestinians like animals and then act shocked when they bite.
chop2chip
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Yes. The open air prison argument. I don’t disagree that it’s awful and it’s needless suffering but from Israel’s perspective it’s quite easy to see why they can’t put their guns down. Palestinians since 1948 have objected violently to the Jews being there and have consistently rejected a two state solution. Why? Because they prefer the eradication route.
acesfull86
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You’re starting with the assumption that folks on one end of the political spectrum would be willing to kill folks who don’t belong, based on…nothing. This past week would suggest there’s more evidence that folks on the other side of the spectrum would support that tactic. “Settlers aren’t civilians .” So maybe you should update your prior assumptions.
acesfull86
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These will be the same people begging for their loans to be paid by the taxpayers.
Tapate50
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acesfull86
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https://reason.com/2023/10/13/1-million-told-to-flee/
Macroaggressions: "We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence," read one representative statement from Harvard student groups. Similar ones were issued at Stanford, Columbia, George Washington, and elsewhere. At Yale, religious studies professor Zareena Grewal tweeted: "Settlers are not civilians. This is not hard" and that Israel is a "murderous, genocidal settler state." It hasn't all been paraglider poster art and simplistic decolonizer narratives (all free speech that I personally find vile, but important to permit), though: At Columbia, an Israeli student was reportedly assaulted by another student.
Since roughly 2013—the start of the modern-day campus social justice movement—college administrators have been offering safe spaces replete with coloring books, bubbles, and Play-Doh for students who might find their emotional health threatened by hearing words they disagree with from on-campus speakers (if even platformed at all). They've been providing guidance on which Halloween costumes might hurt feelings or lean too far into stereotypes (at, for example, Yale, where Grewal teaches). Students have been routinely sorted into affinity groups and privilege hierarchies, in what looked (to the uninitiated) like a benign effort to help them understand how other people's plights differ from their own.
To some of us, these practices seemed hollow, infantilizing, or downright wrong from the start. But for many others, this moment we're in now has smashed whatever vestigial support for campus wokeness remained. Turns out, when people reveal themselves to be Hamas apologists, it is hard to take seriously their requests for microaggression sensitivity.
Macroaggressions: "We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence," read one representative statement from Harvard student groups. Similar ones were issued at Stanford, Columbia, George Washington, and elsewhere. At Yale, religious studies professor Zareena Grewal tweeted: "Settlers are not civilians. This is not hard" and that Israel is a "murderous, genocidal settler state." It hasn't all been paraglider poster art and simplistic decolonizer narratives (all free speech that I personally find vile, but important to permit), though: At Columbia, an Israeli student was reportedly assaulted by another student.
Since roughly 2013—the start of the modern-day campus social justice movement—college administrators have been offering safe spaces replete with coloring books, bubbles, and Play-Doh for students who might find their emotional health threatened by hearing words they disagree with from on-campus speakers (if even platformed at all). They've been providing guidance on which Halloween costumes might hurt feelings or lean too far into stereotypes (at, for example, Yale, where Grewal teaches). Students have been routinely sorted into affinity groups and privilege hierarchies, in what looked (to the uninitiated) like a benign effort to help them understand how other people's plights differ from their own.
To some of us, these practices seemed hollow, infantilizing, or downright wrong from the start. But for many others, this moment we're in now has smashed whatever vestigial support for campus wokeness remained. Turns out, when people reveal themselves to be Hamas apologists, it is hard to take seriously their requests for microaggression sensitivity.
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These students who need play-dough to cope with being misgendered are the people that nsacpi lectures to us as the "educated" in future years
cajunrevenge
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I am stating that shooting people trying to illegally cross the border would get over 50% support by Republicans. And I stand by that.