| Jaicee said: As to the matter of the protests, like you, I'm in favor of free speech. Not a big fan of the jihadist and pro-genocide slogans and chants that I'm hearing or the speeches defending "the heroic actions of October the 7th", people proclaiming their loyalty to Hamas and Islamic Jihad and such. Those are not anti-war demonstrators. They are something else that I have much less respect for It feels like the actual anti-war protesters are in the minority of what we're seeing here on American college campuses and I only hope that I'm wrong about that. At the same time though, I believe that people have a right to say repugnant things that I disagree with and think a better resolution than calling in the cops would be for more college administrators to consider options like holding votes on divestment from arms suppliers anyway, as some have agreed to do. As to the bill you're referencing, I can't disagree with its proposed definition of anti-Semitism, but like I said, I think people have a right to say repugnant things that I disagree with. I'm as worried about it actually becoming law though as I am about the new TikTok ban being enforced; i.e. I'm really not. It won't happen. (Next step for the TikTok ban is the Supreme Court on free speech grounds and TikTok will win.) That's sort of my take on the actual war in a nutshell. |
That's not the impression I'm getting from the student protests. But I mostly follow them on social media and foreign media. Yes there are trouble makers but they are far in the minority and some even debunked as paid shills to infiltrate the demonstrations to make them look bad.
The actual anti-war demonstrators are the vast majority. Yet these are not professional protesters and easily undermined. They have been vilified in the US media from the start. Well from when the focus got on them at Colombia university. There were smaller demonstrations at campuses long before that, which were mostly ignored.
Anyway there's tons of footage of peaceful demonstrators, Jewish and Muslim students sitting together, eating together, talking to each other. It gets messy when the police shows up in force and that's when the media turns on their cameras. The western media has an agenda and are more like propaganda channels than actual news coverage nowadays.
And while Biden praises the first amendment at the correspondence dinner, we get an anti-semitism bill that includes criticism of Israel.
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