this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
408 points (97.2% liked)

News

23296 readers
4083 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

As police cracked down on anti-war protests on college campuses across the US in recent weeks, among those arrested were a pair of silver-haired 65-year-old professors armed only with their cell phones.

Annelise Orleck was knocked to the ground and restrained with plastic handcuffs at a protest at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. She later complained of whiplash.

Steve Tamari was tackled by officers and taken into custody at a demonstration at Washington University in St. Louis, an attack he said resulted in multiple broken ribs and a broken hand.

Orleck and Tamari are among at least 50 professors arrested at campus protests across the country, according to a CNN review of police records, court filings, and news reports. (Since April 18, more than 2,400 students have been arrested amid protests on more than 50 campuses.) In some cases, professors said they were actively participating in protests based on their own beliefs. Others said they attended to show support for their students.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

more than 2,400 students have been arrested amid protests on more than 50 campuses.

So...

About twice as many as 1/6?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/3-years-jan-6-numbers-1200-charged-460/story?id=106140326

Peacefully protesting Biden's pet genocide is getting treated twice as strict as trump trying to prevent Biden from taking office. And a hell of a lot faster.

Negotiating with "moderate" Dems doesn't work, they've spent too long cozzi g up to republicans, they think k like them now. Why listen to protestors when you can just use violence? What are they going to do, not vote Biden?

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Love how you foreign agents immediately make it all about Biden. Is he the King of Israel or King of America? Pretty sure it's neither. Shut up already with the propaganda

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hi, foreign agent here.

I am part of a secret plot to manipulate the US in a devious plan to…. check notes… get Biden to stop directly enabling genocide by continuously bringing up and forcing him to deal with it politically instead of just sweeping 50,000+ innocent Palestinians lives under the rug.

It is the perfect evil plan.

[–] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well is he the President? Is he the leader of the government? Is he the one that continues to pledge weapons and money to Israel and continue to block Palestine at the UN? Is he the one that held back the state department report on Israeli war crimes committed with US weapons and now had it toned down to "yeah we think they did, but we aren't entirely sure." Is he the one whose ambassador recently assured the Israeli government that he is a fully convinced Zionist? Is he the one that made bogus claims about antisemitism and violent protests?

Or is he just some poor slop that has nothing to do with all of this?

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

👏👏👏

givesomefucks spews the same narrative on every post, regardless of relevance. They wrote a wall of text about Biden and Israel on a post about the NYPD manipulating disciplinary records. Just unrelated nonsense.

Further down, I commented the identical response I made the last time they compared Biden’s criticism of disorderly conduct to Trump’s criticism of BLM protests. Just the same baseless claims over and over.

[–] bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 6 months ago

Bad take

Acting like biden is powerless in this when he has gone around congress to fund israel is willfully ignoring the truth.

Calling people foreign agents is also just shit brained. Rather than arguing a point, it just says “hey, u are (maybe) not American, we can ignore you”. Or just saying “Hey, ignore this guy, because I said he’s not American.” Plus, it holds less water when america has constantly interfered in so many other countries. Imagine saying a palestinian shouldn’t have a say in american politics when america has stances on Palestinian politics.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, local police forces who have their own jurisdiction arresting protesters on the spot is exactly the same as Trump hampering the federal response necessary to deal with the Jan 6th traitors who were allowed to disperse.

We get it, you want Trump to win. You are indeed very smart.

[–] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

We don't want Trump to win. We want an end to the genocide and justice for the Palestinian people. Why do the Dems and you prefer Trump to win over ending a fucking genocide?

The administration had every chance and still has every chance to end this genocide and work towards justice. They choose every day to let it continue, giving token pledges at best.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Biden is saying the same shit trump said about BLM...

Calling peaceful protestors violent and making shit up.

And yes, during BLM Biden and everyone else made multiple comments about how important protesting in, and how they'd protect our rights to peaceful protests.

But that hasn't been addressed either.

And yes, the federal government is supposed to have over site of local police.

Like, Ahmad Abrey is a pretty famous example, but it's pretty common.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

“Dissent is essential to democracy. But dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can finish the semester and their college education.”

“Can't you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?”

Yup. Practically indistinguishable.