RantWoman's comment:
Old protestor rant here.
First, THANK YOU to places like Brown and Evergreen State in WA where administrators agreed to TALK in exchange for easing up on the encampments. IN the short term, the best I think people can aim for IMMEDIATELY is to ease the humanitarian disaster, get Israel to stop bombing relief and killing humantarian actors like World Central Kitchen Economic transformation from Israel's apartheid state is going to take longer than the end of one semester and students need stay steady past graduation.
Now, Kids, Kids, Kids, FFS! People protesting use of US tax dollars to help induce famine in #Gaza should be glad they have options to feed themselves. Yeah, sure students have meal plans, but building occupation 101 is bring food, prepare for basic utilities being disrupted.
THANK YOU for calling out the "Antisemitism Awareness Act." I consider it in the same free speech trash can with, say, "don't say gay" in FL, book bans in multiple states, and parents hyperventilating about what kids see in libraries. Stuff people disagree about exists. ONE point of school is learning how to disagree constructively.
Thank you also for talking very militarized policing and about NYPD cop equipment. Honestly, when I saw the big long ladder thing, I though, doesn't the fire department have ladder trucks? How many ladder trucks can be bought for whatever that thing costs?
It's College. Students are SUPPOSED to meet people they disagree with. Students are supposed to be prepared to learn from each other EVEN IF that means sometimes being uncomfortable.
And we get to come back in another rant to comparative treatment of different categories of protestors.
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