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College administrators are falling into a tried and true trap laid by the right (theconversation.com)

submitted 7 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 97 points 7 months ago

The Right Wing is really good at working the refs, and the Left needs to catch a Clue: they're going to get called radical socialist Marxist communist anarchists no matter what they do, so they should get off the knees, stop being such appeasers and fight.

Own the label

[-] hark@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

Democrats are not the left.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

I didn't see a mention of democrats.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

The left isn't afraid of being called "radical socialist Marxist communist anarchists" so I assumed they were talking about democrats who are.

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago

Democrats are not the ones out there protesting for Palestine.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Right, the protesters aren't being "appeasers", they're fighting. It's the democrats who are being appeasers and afraid of being called "radical socialist Marxist communist anarchists" so my conclusion is that they were talking about democrats.

[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Ooohh that's what you meant. Haha. Thanks for the context!

[-] whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 7 months ago

What do they mean "trap laid by the right". These college administrators are conservatives.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

So when "leftists" in office are calling for ending "antisemtic" protests on campus, does that make them part of the right?

[-] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Those people aren't leftists obviously. They're likely liberals

[-] Dearth@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

What evidence is there that college administrators are leftists?

[-] Potatofish@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

In my book, I plug every outlet. Please buy my book!

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

They mention it once in the whole article? But that’s half the stuff on The Conversation. No different from interviews on most news programs

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming

[+] ZK686@lemmy.world -82 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Silly. The Right isn't doing anything...people in general are getting fed up. USC cancelled their graduation, imagine being a 4 year student who didn't get to celebrate a graduation in 2020, and now they can't in college? It's getting ridiculous and these "protests" are starting to effect normal people...

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 43 points 7 months ago

They cancelled graduation after they banned the commencement speaker from speaking. Nobody made them do any of this.

[-] Blackout@kbin.run 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Just imagine if they had done nothing. Just let the students talk and let the speech happen. There wouldn't have been a big deal about it. Some people would have been offended sure but they can get over it. Just like everyone else gets over things that bothers them. Instead they made it a big deal so they could feel powerful over the kids. Must suck to be so much older than them and be so completely wrong.

[-] juicy@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well, you can't go around letting people just say whatever they want. Badspeak is called badspeak for a reason.

[-] FunkyMonk@kbin.social 30 points 7 months ago

normal people who don't want to be inconvenienced by genocide on the planet. I would call that an apathetic asshole but hey it's your internal narrative right.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 29 points 7 months ago

"forget the genocide, what about these poor kids who are gonna miss ANOTHER graduation ceremony?!?!"

[+] ZK686@lemmy.world -12 points 7 months ago

Oh brother....here we go.. because THAT'S the responsibility of Americans right? WE NEED TO DO MORE FOR EVERYONE ELSE!!!

"The US needs to stop getting involved in everyone's business" - Sincerely, The World.

"The US needs to do more to get involved in everyone's business" Sincerely, The World.

I swear...people want the US to be the international police until they don't...

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lmao I'm pretty sure the main argument is for the US to stop sending billions in aid and weapons to Israel (and in this case, for Columbia to not invest in Israel)

US support is the only way it's survived this long, so really we'd like them to be less of the world police.

[+] ZK686@lemmy.world -12 points 7 months ago

Israel is our biggest ally in the Middle East. They literally are our extension in an area that hates America and will stop at nothing to kill us. These "protestors" have no idea how imperative it is that we support Israel because without support, they'd get invaded, slaughtered, and wiped out by the countries surrounding them. The whole point of Israel was to create a home for Jewish people, so that they'd have somewhere to call home if anything like the Holocaust were to ever happen again.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 7 months ago

Lmao I wonder why anyone around there hates America....

Also I'm sure they found a home for them somewhere where nobody else was or at least moved in peacefully with a joint administration right

[-] Triasha@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Preventing geanocide with more genocide.
The tragedy of the Holocaust was the death, not the enthnicity of the slain.
They lost the plot, and so have our leaders.

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 17 points 7 months ago

affect

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 13 points 7 months ago

Guess they missed their college graduation where you learn the difference between "effect" and "affect".

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