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We Don’t Need Warrior Cops Policing Campus Protests
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So, what do the Universities do? Just let them stay there as long as they want?
I mean, Lemmy lets you stay even though you are annoying as fuck, and nobody brutalizes you for sharing your viewpoints (psychotic as they may be). Perhaps you could put that shoe on the other foot if you could first pull it out of your mouth.
Is this a joke? I'm probably the ONLY person on this entire site that leans Right, and I've been called every name in the book for my opinions because they don't align with the Left....
Yeah but ya aint been banned dumbass. Ya can yap about whatever bullshit ya want without ya gettin banned. Freedom of speech in action fucker, ya can say whatever shit ya want and I can call ya a fucktard.
The ideal of freedom of speech is to say what ya want, that doesnt mean anyone has to agree, listen, or stay quiet. So keep on yapping and maybe youll make a good point eventually.
How many times have you been pepper sprayed or clubbed for sharing your stupid shitty opinions on Lemmy
Yes. Property is not as important as life.
But not other students lives right? I mean, the whole reason Colombia did what they did was because other students were afraid. More specifically, Jewish students. But, they don't matter, right?
Hi, just dropping by reading the comments. I believe Jewish students were a part of the protesters so you can't really go that route without adding a conditional on which Jewish students were in danger.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-hold-classes-virtually-jewish-leaders-warn-safety-palestinian-rcna148733
If I'm reading this right, the groups themselves were peaceful, but individuals which may have been just anti-Israel instead of pro-Palestine or outside agitators taking advantage of the situation stirred things up towards violence. The administration was ineffective in identifying these individuals or maintaining the overall peace, so instead members of the peaceful groups were arrested in order to shut the whole thing down.
So from this perspective, i can see why you would say that.
Something like this is always the line used when there's protest violence and you really want to support the cause and so feel a need to minimize or disregard any violence.
It is also a common method used to incite violence at peaceful protests in order to disperse them. This is seen as such more clearly when the individuals apprehended are not the ones causing violence and instead are part of what seems to be the leadership of said protests.
As long as they're peaceful, then pretty much, yes. A state university where the land is publicly owned (government "owned" property), it sounds like they were exercising their rights to assemble, speak, and petition the government...
But they weren't peaceful, that's the issue. The whole reason the university went in was because the protestors were putting other students at risk, more specifically, Jewish students.
From what I've heard since then, there was some vandalism / breaking and entering going on. I haven't heard about any violence directed at people, but if they're breaking into buildings, it is reasonable to stop them. If they were all just peacefully (meaning non-violent, not necessarily quiet) camped out on the quad, then I would say the govt had do right to remove them.
They weren't? Cool, show me some videos of protesters attacking or threatening Jewish students.