Student Activism in the USA
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When people say the source of funding for this stuff is "either Soros, China or Russia" I'm comfortable in thinking they're suggesting more than some arms length links about where some of some grants have ended up.
Anyone sensible knows the word Soros has become shorthand for all kinds of conspiracy theory horses
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Anyone sensible knows the word Soros has become shorthand for all kinds of conspiracy theory horses
t.bhstewie said:
hstewie said: When people say the source of funding for this stuff is "either Soros, China or Russia" I'm comfortable in thinking they're suggesting more than some arms length links about where some of some grants have ended up.
Anyone sensible knows the word Soros has become shorthand for all kinds of conspiracy theory horsest.
Much like the Tory donor stuff you are constantly on about?Anyone sensible knows the word Soros has become shorthand for all kinds of conspiracy theory horses
t.otolith said:
bhstewie said:
hstewie said: Anyone sensible knows the word Soros has become shorthand for all kinds of conspiracy theory horsest.
Ironically, it’s shorthand for “Jews are conspiring against us”.t.Particularly ironic to accuse people of anti-Semitism for being against Soros when some of the groups he financed supported the Oct 7th attacks and were making justifications on the day or just afterwards.
Personally I think that celebrating the rape and slaughter of hundreds of Jewish civilians to be a stronger indicator of anti-Semitism that being against someone like Soros.
ChocolateFrog said:
What we're they supposed to do?
Americans get quite uppity about their flag.
They also get uppity about the word "uppity". In the US it has racist connotations, because it was often used to describe black people perceived to have "ideas above their station".Americans get quite uppity about their flag.
Of course, that means that in the globalised/Americanised world of Reddit you get people getting upset with you, for reasons they don't understand because they are not an American, about using a word for which there are no racist connotations. See also "fag" to describe cigarette and "oriental" to mean eastern (again, historically racist connotations in the US but not here).
Well it looks like the retard virus has crossed the Atlantic:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/06/uk-uni...
Demands from the *Oxford* students:
At Oxford, camp leaders have pinned up a board with a list of six demands to university chiefs, including to “boycott Israeli genocide, apartheid and occupation”, to “disclose all finances”, “stop banking with Barclays”, help rebuild Gaza’s education system and “divest from Israeli genocide, apartheid and occupation”.
They added in a statement: “There is no university in the history of human civilisation that is more complicit in violence, dispossession, and the building of destructive colonial empires than the University of Oxford.”
I don’t know how they possibly can sleep at night in their college rooms…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/06/uk-uni...
Demands from the *Oxford* students:
At Oxford, camp leaders have pinned up a board with a list of six demands to university chiefs, including to “boycott Israeli genocide, apartheid and occupation”, to “disclose all finances”, “stop banking with Barclays”, help rebuild Gaza’s education system and “divest from Israeli genocide, apartheid and occupation”.
They added in a statement: “There is no university in the history of human civilisation that is more complicit in violence, dispossession, and the building of destructive colonial empires than the University of Oxford.”
I don’t know how they possibly can sleep at night in their college rooms…
More UK Universities join the protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may...
Protests are supported by many of the faculty and staff members according to reports.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may...
Protests are supported by many of the faculty and staff members according to reports.
Andeh1 said:
Isn't it kind of a students perogative to protest, get all excited by whatever the latest trend is, make lots of noise, feel good about making a difference, graduate and move on? Adults just need to patiently smile and nod and wait for them to get bored and move to the next popular protest.
Also, don't deploy snipers.
Apathy is the biggest threat to democracy. Also, don't deploy snipers.
Edited by Andeh1 on Tuesday 30th April 21:34
Ridgemont said:
They added in a statement: “There is no university in the history of human civilisation that is more complicit in violence, dispossession, and the building of destructive colonial empires than the University of Oxford.”
And yet, they still want Oxford written on their degree. Vanden Saab said:
As long as one person is not antisemitic that makes it OK. Got it. Same as the hate marches in London.
Strange argument but I guess it made sense when you typed it.
Except he said nothing like that. Feeble attempts to twist people's words doesn't make them look feeble; it makes you look intellectually dishonest. So why do it?Strange argument but I guess it made sense when you typed it.
CheesecakeRunner said:
Ridgemont said:
They added in a statement: “There is no university in the history of human civilisation that is more complicit in violence, dispossession, and the building of destructive colonial empires than the University of Oxford.”
And yet, they still want Oxford written on their degree. Student protests always attract a load of childish plonkers. When student groups are on opposite sides of a debate, the greatest noise comes from the clash of each sides' most ardent plonkers. It tells you nothing about the merits of either side of the debate while undermining real discussion.
bhstewie said:
..so its not about Israel. It is about being Jewish afterall...hstewie said:williamp said:
bhstewie said:
..so its not about Israel. It is about being Jewish afterall...hstewie said:https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/nus-stops-attempt-by-...
CheesecakeRunner said:
Ridgemont said:
They added in a statement: “There is no university in the history of human civilisation that is more complicit in violence, dispossession, and the building of destructive colonial empires than the University of Oxford.”
And yet, they still want Oxford written on their degree. Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff