- cross-posted to:
- thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world
With the greenlight of Columbia President Minouche Shafik and her administration, NYPD has entered Hind Hall through the windows and begun to mass arrest students inside. Let this be remembered as Columbia and Shafik’s legacy: one of mobilizing the violence and terror of the state against their own students and faculty, solely to prevent an end to Columbia’s complicity in a genocide.
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They took Occupy in the night, too. Coordinated strike on the remaining camps. It always comes down to the government’s monopoly on violence.
The Panthers were right. Revolutionaries should be armed.
You’re not wrong, but if they had been armed, there would be more dead people in this story.
Maybe. It’s also possible that the administration would have negotiated a settlement with the protestors to avoid escalation.
Seems like escalation is all that the higher ups know how to do these days.
If they ever descalate they may find themselves living in the system they created and whoa-ho do I kinda get why they’re so goddamn afraid of that. If only they hadn’t made it so awful down here.
This protest is not a thing that matters. No one will remember this in a year, probably less than that. Because you can’t just break random rules as a protest. You have to break the specific rule that is unjust. This building is not the center of Israeli government or the IDF.
If these students went downtown to the Holocaust museum and held up signs saying “Gaza is a modern Holocaust”, that would work better. They could protest outside the Israeli Consulate too. It would also be more efficient to just call a bunch of representatives and senators every day. Get 100 students to spend one hour making calls per day and you can tie up the Congressional switchboard. Do that for a month and you will get a response.
These students are mainly protesting to feel good about themselves. They are taking the easiest and coolest route. Actually organizing for change is tougher than just occupying your own school. It’s your school, you aren’t taking it from anyone.
Breaking and entering has never been a form of protest that’s acceptable. At this point the protest has just devolved into doing everything they can to get arrested like that.
No they just want to be cool and have control over some part of their lives. Like we all do. I completely understand but it’s not an effective way to protest.
Breaking and entering can easily be a good form of protest but it matters where you break into. The Jewish dude who broke into an American Nazi meeting in Madison Square Garden was a great protester.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Square_Garden
No they just want to be cool and have control over some part of their lives.
They’re protesting about someone else’s lives, not their own. Last I checked this isn’t Vietnam where those same students are being conscripted to fight a war.
Breaking and entering can easily be a good form of protest but it matters where you break into.
Breaking into a random building is not a good form of protest. I would even argue your example isn’t great either, nor really a protest.
The protesters should have been armed so that they could repel this.
The protestors shouldn’t be breaking into buildings and barricading themselves in them.
You’re such a fucking hero. I wish we were all as brave as you.
At least I’m not committing criminal breaking and entering.
Yes, you’re a very good boy, and we’re all proud of you.
Look at you attempting to be all passive aggressive. We all know you try really hard behind your keyboard. Maybe one day you can even talk to a person without hiding your identity.
Pot, meet kettle.
I actually try having discussions here, despite the tons of misinformation that flows through lemmy. That person literally had nothing to contribute beyond passive aggressive comments.
oooh, no! criminal breaking and entering!
at least funding genocide is ok though, it aint a crime!
Were these people also committing genoside? I was only commenting about their illegal actions.
i dunno, you seem to be bothered with their protesting against it.
Well I was specifically bothered about the illegal activities they’re using to protest, but sure, twist my words to fit your narrative.
I read the stats on how little America students care about the Gaza conflict but then you look at lemmy and every post is about these small protests.
The islamic/tankie propaganda teams are working hard on this.
NYPD going in through the windows is much better than a bunch of protestors breaking down the doors and locking themselves in there.
