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David Smith's avatar

"Outside agitators" is the canard that the segregationists used when they broke up civil rights demonstrations, that the "hawks" used when they broke up anti-war demonstrations, and the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) used when they hauled Hollywood writers and actors before Congress to persecute and blacklist them for having leftist political views. See a pattern?

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

Antisemitic chants and even threats against Jewish students have brought the tension of the Middle East onto U.S. college campuses. CBS and many other items.

Rabbi Elie Buechler, who is involved with Columbia UniversityтАЩs Orthodox Union Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus, told more than 300 mostly Orthodox Jewish students that they should return home and remain there due to safety concerns.

тАЬIt deeply pains me to say that I would strongly recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved,тАЭ Buechler wrote, adding that the university has тАЬmade it clear that Columbia UniversityтАЩs Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish studentsтАЩ safety.тАЭ

https://ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/news/2024/04/22/jewish-students-fear-safety-amid-pro-palestinian-protests-at-columbia-university

A Los Angeles County District Attorneys' assistant 9caught protesting) faces eleven felony charges filed by the state attorney general.

Following a school altercation in Central Florida, three students, two non-students and one employee were arrested by Tampa Police.

In Hotlanta Emery University spokeswoman Laura Diamond alleged the several dozen protesters were not students and had тАЬtrespassedтАЭ onto the campus.

Police arrested four who were not students, after they refused to leave an encampment on a plaza at the center of Yale UniversityтАЩs campus .

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Vicki, MSN's avatar

Agitators, outsiders distorting the peaceful message. Like proud boys would do or kkk

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Victor Kamendrowsky's avatar

A protest is not an exchange of ideas. it is a statement of a position, a demand, and it risks being completely counterproductive. Also, calling for Schaffik's resignation is an invitation for the appointment of an authoritarian, which she is not..

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William Farrar's avatar

Just because it is a canard used by segregationists, does not negate the fact that there are indeed outside agitators using the students.

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AndyLee's avatar

I do believe there are outside agitators considering some of the students donтАЩt really even understand the conflict in the Middle East!

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William Farrar's avatar

Most students don't Most students don't understand the issues or what is behind the issues they protest. It is peer pressure, fun and games, comradeship, something to brag about over coffee or a keg.

Campus idiots. Over educated and brainless and a total lack of curiousity and critical reasoning skills, sez this old dude who went to university with them during the Vietnam war., bullshit blustering posturing and bravado.

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Timothy Anton Ash's avatar

Some were like that, but some were principled dissenters expressing their views publicly where they could be heard.

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William Farrar's avatar

You can't separate the wheat from the chaff, when the chaff is attacking you and disrupting life.

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