Mazdak@lemmy.orgM to Lemmy.org - Politics @lemmy.orgEnglish · 6 months agoSpeaker Mike Johnson booed at Columbia University as he calls for president to quitwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down11
arrow-up1111arrow-down1external-linkSpeaker Mike Johnson booed at Columbia University as he calls for president to quitwww.independent.co.ukMazdak@lemmy.orgM to Lemmy.org - Politics @lemmy.orgEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareWhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49arrow-down1·edit-26 months agoColumbia students: protesting peacefully and testing boundaries, exercising free speech Columbia President: Let’s call NYPD and arrest them all Columbia Staff: wtf? Mike Johnson: How can I make this worse? I know, force the president of the school to resign for not doing enough, and call in the National Guard And fuck all those ads I endured to read that.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down7·6 months ago protesting peacefully and testing boundaries, exercising free speech Doesn’t sound like that on the ground: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/opinions/columbia-university-protests-greenblatt/index.html And I’m sure plenty (more) of bad actors have slipped in since. It’s not as cut-and-dried and lemmy is making it out.
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·6 months agoEhhh, that article sounds pretty biased. Yes, Jewish students don’t deserve to be persecuted, and yes, people who break the law should be arrested, but that’s true everywhere. Everything else in the article is just fearmongering.
Columbia students: protesting peacefully and testing boundaries, exercising free speech
Columbia President: Let’s call NYPD and arrest them all
Columbia Staff: wtf?
Mike Johnson: How can I make this worse? I know, force the president of the school to resign for not doing enough, and call in the National Guard
And fuck all those ads I endured to read that.
Doesn’t sound like that on the ground:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/opinions/columbia-university-protests-greenblatt/index.html
And I’m sure plenty (more) of bad actors have slipped in since. It’s not as cut-and-dried and lemmy is making it out.
Ehhh, that article sounds pretty biased. Yes, Jewish students don’t deserve to be persecuted, and yes, people who break the law should be arrested, but that’s true everywhere. Everything else in the article is just fearmongering.