With the greenlight of Columbia President Minouche Shafik and her administration, NYPD has entered Hind Hall through the windows and begun to mass arrest students inside. Let this be remembered as Columbia and Shafik’s legacy: one of mobilizing the violence and terror of the state against their own students and faculty, solely to prevent an end to Columbia’s complicity in a genocide.

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  • Philharmonic3@lemmy.world
    587·
    7 months ago

    These protests have a list of specific demands, especially a demand to divest Columbia’s money from arms manufacturers supplying the genocide. Do not infantilize this. It is an organized maneuver with a specific goal.

    • KevonLooney
      651·
      7 months ago

      Columbia was founded by slavery money. Most Ivy League schools are. They weren’t clean before and divesting from arms manufacturers is not going to make them clean.

      Did these students care about that when they enrolled? No, they were all excited to go to a “good school” to get a high paying job. They don’t care about the investments. This is just a thing to do.

      • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
        211·
        7 months ago

        it’s almost like a bunch of minors went somewhere and then learned things that changed their opinions somehow

        • KevonLooney
          322·
          7 months ago

          Good point. But the real question is, are they going to give the money back?

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        234·
        7 months ago

        Wait, so students aren’t allowed to protest what their Universities do because they enrolled in those Universities, because of slavery? Do you realize how stupid you sound?

        • blazeknave@lemmy.world
          220·
          7 months ago

          A bunch of white guilt rich kids who can afford to get bailed out… I’m sorry, these people aren’t noble. No sympathy