The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

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    Dr Shafiq’s case was a great example of how one should (not) to deal with MAGA. She literally did everything the GOP demanded of her. Then Mike Johnson still went on to demand her resignation. She called cops on students (HUGE mistake), fueled the flames of nationwide protests… Yet she ended up resigning. In contrast Dr Claudine Gay did not budge so she was academically assassinated and then they made her resign. UPenn’s president Dr Liz Magill was pressured to resign too. Which is telling how the free speech absolutist party suddenly uniformly got 3 ivy league university presidents resign/removed regardless of them doing what was demanded or not.

    And this is what will lead to the demise of trumpism: they make resistance way more worthwhile than compliance.

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    Great job by leadership who thought that not standing up for student protestors would somehow protect them from reprisals.

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      For being literally Academia, you would think they would be more familiar with history of all fucking things.

      Anyone with a brain knows that a bully you try to please will just demand more. Trump’s hate cannot be satiated.

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        I mean… It kinda shows how bullshit and soulless it has become. It’s like when regular Americans that aren’t on the right act like our entire American culture isn’t to blame for where we are today.

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          Individualism and exceptionalism in a society that can’t be supported without the efforts of countless others and subsidized by the poorer living conditions of people who don’t even live there sounds kind of silly to me.

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        Because most of those institutions aren’t about teaching any more, it’s about soliciting donations from wealthy people, building fancy buildings named after billionaires, and managing all that money.

        BDS threatens all of that.

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          The leadership of these colleges are a part of the oligarchy. They proved that when they chose to crush their students civil rights and bend the knee.

          Calling most of these corporate whores “academics” is like calling Musk an “engineer”. It’s complete bullshit. They are the leadership of a for-profit corporation. Their actions sully all of their credentials and authority.

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        It’s usually vapid, amoral MBAs that handle the admin side that push this shit not the academics doing the actual work.

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    Nazis behave in comparatively mild Nazi ways to hurt enemies of Nazism. Experts shocked.

    Strap the fuck in. It’s going to get so, so much worse. Palestine is fucked. The ability to protest Palestine being fucked in the US is also going to be fucked soon. Not that the protests mattered anyway. The genocide still happened and will soon be ramped up to make real estate deals for billionaires.

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      Bro I can’t even physically get to my state’s capital. It’d be like a four hour train ride, and a few hundred dollars. Maybe if there was funding for busses there could be higher turnout, but the only people who want to resist are the ones who are already poor and desperate. Things are still fine for the people who’ve always been comfortable.

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      There’s been hundreds of protests. The national media isn’t covering them but there have been protests in every state capital and major city. Republicans have stopped doing town halls. France is the size of Texas and Paris is a few hours (by train) from Marseille. Los Angeles is like a 6 hour flight from DC. It’s a lot harder to have one big protest here than in geographically smaller countries.

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          Europeans really don’t understand how spread out we are over here. And then there’s the whole “I could lose my job and housing if I take a day off work” thing that most people have going on.

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        Now there’s no possibility of a bullet. Wait too long however and you’ll have to contend with that possibility before you protest anything.

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        Enough people and they can’t shoot you all. Revolutions are never easy and it requires some victims. Your fascist government doesn’t give up peacefully. If you just decide to sit on your hands, things will never change.

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      Because they thrive on the attention and it is expensive, dangerous, and a complete waste of time.

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    Didn’t we hear about this 5 days ago or something? And Columbia capitulated? I could’ve sworn I got updates from reputable (ish) sources.

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      Capitulating to fascists doesn’t get you off the hook. It just shows them you’re weak and easily duped.

      Fascists must be fought, not appeased.

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      After they capitulated to Trump, Trump cut funding anyways.

      Now Trump is here stating that they need to do such and such to regain funding (that Trump cut despite Columbia University capitulating to Trump).