“Hundreds of people have been arrested in California, Massachusetts, Texas and other states during the tense [student] protests, following several rounds of arrests in New York in recent days.”
“Students at dozens of other colleges—including the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, Berkeley, and Yale—have established similar encampments in a widening showdown over campus speech and the war in Gaza.”
"One of the most violent police crackdowns took place at Emory University in Atlanta on Thursday, when local and state police swept onto the campus just hours after students had set up tents on the quad in protest against Israel’s war on Gaza as well as the planned police training center known as Cop City."
Dave Karpf says that all university administrators had to do with students protesting in solidarity with Gaza was to ignore them. And university professors are good at ignoring students.
Instead, following Minouche Shafik's lead, they've chosen to crack down and call in police, and as a result, the protests are proliferating, as is the menacing pushback – snipers on the roofs of universities.
"Republican politicians gleefully egging it on, crowing about 'chaos on campus.' (Because the more this moment resembles 1968 on tv, the better.)"
Republicans are loving this, students protesting, university administrators calling in police. They think they can use it, as they pull the strings, to sweep to power in the 2024 elections.
@wdlindsy uni admins these days are MBAs (the commissars of neoliberalism). They are incapable of nuance, common sense or understanding beyond "make sure the donor/government money keeps flowing".
@wdlindsy
Inadvertently, such reactions by admins, pols, and cops might also make young people remember they must vote. Just saying it the gloat could backfire.
Add comment