This is the fourth or fifth one I’ve read about today. The kids are effecting change. I love it.
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Thank you for spelling effecting correctly.
Isn't effect a noun, affect a verb? Am I supposed to discern which in other ways?
To "affect" a change would be to alter the change itself, for example if the university had already been reviewing its portfolio then the protesters might be affecting the change by making it happen more quickly.
To "effect" a change would be to cause the change in the first place.
This is one of the few oddities of the English language that I struggle with constantly. It seems like, as a native speaker, most of the other ones just "feel" or "sound" right, but I haven't been able to nail that down with effect/affect for some reason
The trouble is that both words have a verb sense and a noun sense.
The noun sense of affect is something like "mood" or "emotion" and isn't used often, while the noun sense of effect is "thing that happened (because of some cause)" and is a rather common word.
The verb sense of affect is "to cause something to happen (to something)" and is a pretty common word, while the verb sense of effect is more like "to make something be true" as in "effecting change" above.
The mnemonic I use is from dungeons and dragons, some spells are "mind-affecting effects" meaning they change minds and they're caused by the spell being cast.
If I use my Persuasion skill to help someone think their way through a problem, is that a "mind-effecting affect"?
I don't know that I'd say persuasion skills are an affect, but if your mood gives people ideas, that'd work.
"Effect" can also be used as a verb, as used above.
Both can be both nouns and verbs. This to me is the most annoying English oddity of all.
I hope to effect a change in your perspective.
You know, I'm also super pedantic about this and only learned I'd been doing it wrong very recently.
These are full-grown adults in university. They are not kids.
It's all relative
I greeted my fellow 20-ish-year-olds with "what's up kids" at that age as a way of saying we were still young party machines. I am not disrespecting these folks.
In this case, no change happened because the university didn't invest in Israel in the first place.
The students being allowed to peacefully protest at all is a nice change, and hearing about it could encourage other peaceful protesters, who could enact more direct change
Sacramento State’s updated policy states that it “does not have any direct investments in these areas” right now but, in accordance with students’ demands, its investment portfolios will “remain free of such direct investments.”
Students: We're protesting until our school stops investing in stuff that's bad!
University: Uh, we already don't.
Students: We did it! We freed Palestine!
I don't think the students though that divesting would save all the Palestinians. I mean, I am sure one person did, but that is what happens when you have a large group of people. I think they just wanted to apply pressure against Israel where they could.
I think it is based and probably the most effective thing they could do to stop the genocide.
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You attempt a lazy joke here because it seems you need attention, but policy like this matters, especially when things get "quiet" again after the spotlight fades. Also, in addition to divestment, the university also met their demand to appoint “a faculty member from Faculty for Justice in Palestine to sit on the finance committee, ensuring that investments remain ethical every year.”
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They did win. They know now that University is morally right and doesn't support a genocide.
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Wow, I guess listening to the protesters instead of calling cops on them is crazy 🙄
Yeah that’s… that’s the joke
You know what, honestly, I can't blame the above commenter. Have you seen some of the trash headlines are made of these days?
Maybe if it were the National Review, Daily Caller, NYPost, or something like that.
It’s Jezebel, which tells us nothing except that I’m surprised they’re still in business.
Definitely in that case, but short of something wackily eye-catching like "infoturkbot" or w/e tf that garbage is, I usually dont notice the name until im already on the page. I'm just sayin, I could easily imagine a few circumstances that would lead to someone not getting the obvious sarcasm in the headline.
I think Jezebel should be included in the "something like that"
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