While babies in Gaza are starving to death or are getting incinerated or buried under piles of rubble, American university presidents are complaining that “tents are violence”
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 10:56:08 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Bill Zaumen (bzdev@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 12:32:59 JST Bill Zaumen
@thomasfuchs About those students protesting in tents: when I was in college & graduate school (1960s to early 1970s) in anti-war student protests that "got out of hand", the students would occupy university buildings. If they had merely camped out on the lawn, an administration would have breathed a sigh of relieve. Why is the reaction so different now?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 12:32:59 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@bzdev Because of the sponsors and donors of the universities.
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William Pietri (williampietri@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 05:34:40 JST William Pietri
@thomasfuchs In case anybody can't quite figure out why the students are not taking the path of "reason to persuade others", it is time to reread MLK: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
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urJent message (itsjennotgoblin@goblin.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 05:34:40 JST urJent message
@williampietri @thomasfuchs I also love to suggest Charles Cobb's This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed.
https://libcom.org/article/nonviolent-stuffll-get-you-killed-charles-cobbFree PDF, mobi, epub book
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14mission (14mission@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 07:31:39 JST 14mission
@thomasfuchs Etymology is fun and interesting but doesn't really tell you what words mean.
For example, this thing I'm wearing on the the upper half of my body, which has sleeves and a picture of Snoopy on it, is not a skirt.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 07:31:39 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@14mission what that person means is being offended by having to look at people that don’t have the same opinion about genocide than they do
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