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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.
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I assume you're being ironic. It's never a fluke, at least not in recent history. The grand guignol 5-year version of dog-and-pony has been ongoing since before the turn of the millennium--though at least, back then, the establishment candidate was far more acceptable than today. I remember almost with tears Villepin's eloquent antiwar speech at the UN, France's last noble, independent moment on the world stage. Since then it's been plain ignominy, vassalage to the "worst of the worst" stoking the empty engines of a desperate empire while strutting ignobly to the jeers of the global south. They will fall hard, but are by now so small that the thud will not run so deep.