On the broader point of the situation at Columbia. It's important to know who's doing what. Students vs hangers-on, activists from off campus etc. But let's not kid ourselves. Think abt this situation from the perspective of a minority group you actually care about.

Students

🍉 LePrawn James is TENUREDT. 🍉 @ijbailey Exactly, if we find out that they were Zionists obviously that would justify death threats. Likewise, no need to condemn racism, antisemitism or other ethnic bigotries said by those who identify with your protest when you can just disingenuously pretend they’re evil scheming Jews

🍉 LePrawn James is TENUREDT. 🍉 @ijbailey Can you provide a list of students, by race, gender, religion, etc., against whom death threats are OK? The last thing I want to do it offend people issuing the threats.

YOU REALIZE IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT THEIR STANCE ON ISRAEL IS, THE DEATH THREATS ARE WRONG YES?

YES???

Please stop saying this. I’m not a Republican. I disagree with them on literally everything and I will be voting for Biden.

I feel a moral responsibility to demand my party denounce antisemitism.

That’s not because I’m moving rightward. It’s because it’s wrong whoever does it.

The okayest poster there is Mark my words: the fact this 'campus protest' became a city-wide cluster-fuck w/readily observable harassment, threats, & clips of ppl repeating terrorist slogans has EVERYTHING to do w/why prom stdnts have been suspended.

[Admins avoid doing those things b/c heavy lawsuits.]

There is something extremely weird about this that American college students would even know the word 'yehudim', let alone use it first, before saying 'Jews'

Also just an insane thing to do, but the word choice really jumps out at me

Modern pixel art games have definitely created a Mandela Effect of what retro games actually looked like. Lotta indies think they need to make games more HD than your average SNES title on a small fraction of the budget. The average SNES game was like 250x250px, man.

Everyone understands that a group of students can't stand at the center of campus and scream, 'Death to the Blacks!' without being expelled and any university which would expect Black students to operate under these conditions would rightly be considered racist as fuck, right?

You either care about protecting students from hate speech or you don't. You cannot apply this principle selectively based on your own bigotry.

If you can't have a 'pro-Palestine' rally without hate speech, then you can't have that rally at campus at all.

think of it this way, by joyously giving a pass to this shit yall are ceding the moral high ground to the Conors Friedersdorf of this world, and is that ACTUALLY something you want to permit in any universe

I’ve spent a lot of time in confusion about what people mean when they say they want to change the world. it turns out that a lot of such people want the status associated with being a world-changer, hoping that status will bring a sense of love and acceptance and belonging

Organizing is a big responsibility. Please do it and do it well. Please root out these bad actors even when it feels impossible to do so.

I sent cookies to the family of the dead, and took a mental note that poorly organized and poorly controlled protests can have unintended side effects that can literally be life or death for other people pulled in against their will.

thing is you don't actually need to lie about this stuff in order to defend the humanity of palestinian people and the need for a palestinian state, and every time you do it's harder and harder to believe you're not just another bloodthirsty antisemite longing for the slaughter

Chevalier de Saint-Georges🇺🇸 Dear Americans, Putin and russia are indeed your enemy. They say so all the time when they think you're not listening. They believe it is the natural state of things for the US and russia to be enemies. The people telling you otherwise are idiots or liars.

I hate to talk about activism or tactics, but one thing I've been thinking about is that almost anyone On Here almost certainly vastly overestimates the degree to which the average American actually knows what the basic details of the situation in 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 are.

I don’t understand how this being allowed to happen on a campus with a prominent and sizable Jewish student body, Jewish professors, and administrators, and no one is stepping up to protect their friends colleagues and classmates.

i struggle with this a lot but this is well put and Ms. Julianna has absolutely been doing the work, consistently and admirably:

People will fearmonger on here about 'World War III' but personally I think letting Iran hit a nuclear-armed state with 300 missiles would have been more likely to result in a major, catastrophic war than America and its allies shooting those missiles down