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If an educational institution won't abid by the First Amendment it means they're more interested in pumping out cogs for the machines of capitalism than they are teaching students critical thinking skills.
Fuck Columbia and every other school that follows this path.
Go read up about what the first amendment actually is and how it applies to private entities (hint: it doesn't).
There is a difference from having to uphold a constitutional right by law or by principle of valuing the right.
Free speech is essential for universities as it creates the space in which scientific discourse and development can strife. This is also why autocratic governments always crack down on universities and then within a few years the quality of research and teaching goes down the drain.
By cracking down on students that were voicing their opinion Columbia declares that it does not want to be an university in that spirit anymore. It might not be a legal problem. But it is a complete moral failure.
Was that the university that private the YouTube video saying protests were allowed on campus or was that another one?
Either way, universities love to pretend they're bastions of activism until they actually have to be about it.
"an university" this is worse than nails on a chalkboard or the word "moist"
Ooniversity
W safety of some students cannot be comprised by granting other students their freedom.
On all the Universities were police was brought it, it escalated the situation. We saw evidence of a pro-Israel protestor committing to antisemitic hate speech in order to get the police to violently crackdown on the peaceful anti-genocide protest.
Meanwhile Jewish students and members of faculty from most campuses report that there was not threat towards them by the anti-genocide demonstrations
Bad timing on your end. The Colombia protestors just raided one of the halls and barricaded themselves in.
Tents on a lawn is one thing, even if they did nothing to silence the calls for hate among their ranks. Breaking (in the literal sense) into a building and causing damage is a whole level of escalation from the protestors. At what point do they shift into a violent riot?
You got a source on that?
So after police came in and violated people things escalated. You are confirming what i said.
Nah, you have it backwards. The protestors broke into a building, so police was sent to get them out. It would be the same outcome as if you decided to break into a building and lock yourself in.
The police raided the protest camp before. Stop playing the zionist game of "before the moment i say, nothing relevant happened!"
The zionist game? That's been the main playbook of all the Hamas supporters. "What do you mean we fired thousands of rockets aim at civilians before the IDF came in here? They're just trying to oppress our rights to self expression"
Then why are the cops there? Are they private security 100% funded with private money?
When the cops show up at your home are they your own funded private security? The university called them in due to trespassing protestors.
If my tax money's paying to beat up protesters it's 100% a 1st amendment issue
Wrong, try again.