This is soooo bad. The uS government and Columbia University, and likely the entire apparatus of American academia are becoming enforcement arms of Zionist fascism.

I’m Jewish. I did my PhD at Columbia. I graduated January 2024.

You know what made me feel safe? Solidarity between Palestinian and Jewish students protesting the genocide of Palestinians by Israel in Gaza.

You know what makes me feel unsafe? Fascist presidents using my identity to further their agenda.

~fin~

The fundamental problem with progressivism — and I say this as someone who was a leftist for my entire life, until maybe five years ago—is that progressives want there to be a different reality than the one that is, and become angered when confronted with reality, and blame whoever is presenting that reality to them for being the perpetrator of whatever unpleasant or imperfect reality presented.

“Rural America is a colony, and its economy is a colonial economy. The business of America has been largely and without apology the plundering of rural America, from which everything of value—minerals, timber, farm animals, farm crops, and ‘labor’—has been taken at the lowest possible price.”

Wendell Berry

I could never post this one enough.