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      It’s unclear why you felt the need to act needlessly cruel. It’s even less clear what you get out of it.

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        Almost certainly someone who chose not to go to college or didn’t get in and see people who spend the money and fail as vindication for themselves.

        Same reason people are against loan forgiveness.

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          The thought of that had occurred to me but I tend not to say that directly to people just to avoid drama.

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        University Professor with now “prior” students affected by today’s raid. The University is neither partisan to foreign events nor a place to take a building hostage for such. It just boggles my mind how anyone, including my prior students could both assume nothing would happen to them and to fall victim to feed such hatred. Hatred is not the answer, it’s a proven fact.

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          Seems like your students will be in a better place now considering they won’t have to hear more of this drivel.

          Funny as a professor that your mind is boggled that a university could be a place for protest.

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    I can’t wait for the surprise Pikachu on their faces when the university takes action. If they think actions should have consequences for others, why shouldn’t it apply to them as well?

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      There will be no surprised Pikachu faces because anyone out there protesting values innocent human lives more than a suspension, expulsion, or unjust criminal charges unto them.

      I think you might not get protesting.

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        If that’s really true, why weren’t they protesting when the saudis were bombing the hell out of Yemen?

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          I mean, does it really make a difference? I agree that more things like this should be protested. But even if you think they’re hypocrites that doesn’t mean they’re wrong now. Put it this way: if they had protested the Saudis, would this protest be totally cool with you?

          And obviously the answer is because their university and government are backing and funding this one. If you can’t see the difference in relevance to the average American you have a serious problem.

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                I can’t speak for the universities, but by many standards the involvement of the US military was a lot larger.

                Asides from supplying weapons and intelligence, they were participating in the naval blockade and flying air tankers to help the genocide. 380k dead, that’s 10 times as much as what’s reported from Gaza.

                And sure, it was bad, but I think the above poster as well as myself want to make the point that it’s quite arbitrary to take such risks to protest this conflict in particular. I assume most of the protestors have been Kony’d into thinking that this conflict is somehow very special and worth risking their future for.

                That said, I think they should be free to do so peacefully and the fucks who are doxxing them should swing

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          You pointed at another bad thing and somehow that means that we shouldn’t care about this bad thing?

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        Nah, I expect people are dumb enough to think the first amendment protects them from private institutions and consequences. I’ve seen enough people over the years that have proven me right and were then surprised by the consequences of their own actions.

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          It takes federal funds so it does apply, it’s already been ruled on in like 1968. They aren’t traditional public forums, they’re limited ones but civil disobedience is literally the cornerstone of American peaceful protest.