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"To interpret these protests as anything else — as antisemitic or anti-Zionist or anti-American or pro-Palestinian — is to miss the essence of what’s going on and why...
robertreich.substack.com
What's really motivating the protests? - Robert Reich
Friends, I’ve been spending the last several weeks trying to find out what’s really going on with the campus protests. I’ve met with students at Berkeley, visited with faculty at Columbia University, and talked with young people and faculty at many other universities.
11:36 PM - May 02, 2024
They made you feel ashamed for standing for what’s right and what’s good
And YOU let them!
The ugly truth is, the only way they could have done that, is because you never believed what was right was really right.
You were always a bigot.
#ISWIS
And YOU let them!
The ugly truth is, the only way they could have done that, is because you never believed what was right was really right.
You were always a bigot.
#ISWIS
11:41 AM - May 02, 2024
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Conservatives (aka white people, for the most part) loved Nixon's "Southern Strategy" & Reagan's "Welfare Queens" – because they thinly veiled the racism with "crime" and "laziness" (i.e. racist tropes). The GOP has been centered on racism for at least 65 years. What "mainstream" (cont.)
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Professor Kyle @blackcatproseLMAO. The "mainstream conservative" movement is too funny – people like Thiessen are "shocked" that conservatives like a brutal, autocratic ruler who's an open bigot plagued by sex abuse allegations? That's what conservatism is.11:51 AM - May 02, 2024![WaPo opinion headline:
Hungary’s leader should be radioactive to the right. Why does CPAC love him?
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12:22 PM - May 02, 2024
The issue isn't do Jewish people have a right to a country. It's do the govt & people of Israel have a right to commit genocide & take someone else's to get one. That's what Netanyahu, the govt of Israel, & the "settlers" in Gaza & the West Bank are doing. With our munitions & tax dollars.
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MariMarina (she/her) @MariMarinaZionism https://www.adl.org/resour...02:01 PM - May 02, 2024
Do Jewish people of the area have a right to a country? If you think so, you are a zionist. So are anti-Likud Jews.
If people organizing these protests don't think so, it's a non starter and only helps Netanyahu.
02:19 PM - May 02, 2024
I do NOT understand why objecting to violence against Palestinian non combatants somehow equates to be antisemitism. Palestinian women, children and men who do not ascribe to Hamas ideology should be supported by everyone. Genocide is not ok no matter who is targeted. The End.
02:35 PM - May 02, 2024
Really tired of this corrupt SCOTUS enforcing the tyranny of the minority.
01:11 PM - Apr 25, 2024
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... and the like should be available to any person in the US that needs it. I support medicare for all - I don't have a problem with paying for my healthcare with my taxes (instead of completely out of my pocket or subsidized by my employer) ...
10:43 AM - Jul 12, 2023
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... to fully participate in the world around us, to be able to live independently and have economic self-sufficiency. I can get glasses ... someone who needs adaptive technology to interact with the world needs more than just the tech.
10:40 AM - Jul 12, 2023
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... people with Down's Syndrome, people that were born blind or became blind later in life, and people who were born deaf or lost part/all of their hearing later in life. I fully support the American Disabilities Act and other efforts to make it possible for people with disabilities ...
10:40 AM - Jul 12, 2023
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I am not physically or developmentally disabled but my eyesight qualifies as a sensory disability. In my life I've met people who have had amputations, people who have had spinal injuries and are in a wheelchair, people who were born with conditions that require adaptive technology, ...
10:40 AM - Jul 12, 2023
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See comment above about misogyny and forcing "your beliefs on others through legislation" then go back and read Wheaton's Law again ...
10:39 AM - Jul 12, 2023
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I am not female by anyone's definition of the term. Regardless of this, I believe that there is no acceptable reason that a woman shouldn't have complete control over what happens with her body. The Equal Rights Amendment needs to be revisited and passed.
10:39 AM - Jul 12, 2023
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See comment above about forcing "your beliefs on others through legislation" then go back and read Wheaton's Law again ...
10:39 AM - Jul 12, 2023
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I am not a member of the LGBTQIA+ community but I know and love more of them than I can count. I long for the day that their right to exist safely in the world is fully embraced, accepted and no longer questioned.
10:39 AM - Jul 12, 2023
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For now I try to follow Wheaton's Law, "Thou shalt not be a dick". Believe what you will but I'll have a real problem with you if you use your faith to justify prejudice, bigotry, misogyny or try to force your beliefs on others through legislation. Go back and read Wheaton's Law again ...
10:38 AM - Jul 12, 2023
📢New: You can now add as many URLs to your spouts as you like without affecting the character count. Make sure you close and reopen your app or perform a hard refresh if you are using a browser.
10:09 AM - Apr 24, 2024
@cbouzy
I closed and reopened my app, then tested the feature by creating a spout with three website links alongside other text. The character count said 145 of 300, yet all of the text was fully red like whenever there are more than 300 characters, and I couldn't spout it. See attached screenshot.
I closed and reopened my app, then tested the feature by creating a spout with three website links alongside other text. The character count said 145 of 300, yet all of the text was fully red like whenever there are more than 300 characters, and I couldn't spout it. See attached screenshot.
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Christopher Bouzy @cbouzy📢New: You can now add as many URLs to your spouts as you like without affecting the character count. Make sure you close and reopen your app or perform a hard refresh if you are using a browser.10:09 AM - Apr 24, 2024![GIF-Image]()
10:47 AM - Apr 24, 2024
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Here is an example of polls clashing with reality. Ignore the polls.
11:27 AM - Apr 24, 2024
Despite Judge Merchan weighing the issue of whether Trump violated the gag order, he made more disparaging remarks to 6ABC yesterday: “Michael Cohen is a convicted liar, and he’s got no credibility...then he got in trouble because of things outside of what he did for me.”
11:32 AM - Apr 24, 2024
yo, I wrote a thing: "frail old fuckface can’t stop whining" — scenes from a trial, Day Six.
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11:34 AM - Apr 24, 2024
I'm trying to be part of the country & listen to our Supreme Court deciding things... but listening to the hate, to the ignorance, & the fucking Chief of it, is saying the law says to protect the child not the mother... oh well... sorry lady.... you lose, b/c this guy thinks a fetus, is primary WTF!
11:40 AM - Apr 24, 2024
In response to Paige Robertson.
Thank you for that. I understand, what is happening in Gaza is horrific. 💔
05:54 PM - Apr 23, 2024
05:40 PM - Apr 23, 2024
I usually don't post anything from the bad place, but this is too funny.
03:20 PM - Apr 23, 2024
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked..." (A. Ginsberg)
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Derek Croucher @dcroucherHowl04:39 PM - Apr 23, 2024![Picture]()
04:43 PM - Apr 23, 2024
Forward progress (also finished most of the inside – flooring & trim – between the 1st & 2nd pic before jumping back to the siding...)
04:53 PM - Apr 23, 2024
"The White House, Congressional Republicans, and cable news talking heads would have you believe that the Columbia University campus has devolved into a hotbed of antisemitic violence – but the reality on the ground is very different."
03:58 PM - Apr 23, 2024
Having failed at empire (even the Japanese spanked them); and at Utopia (not even the slightest bit of it), Russia will now try for Empire... again. Crazy rich with resources but Putin and friends take it all. Could be so great for its own people, but it just isn't ever to be it seems...
11:08 AM - Apr 23, 2024
In response to Paige Robertson.
I'm nitpicking bc I can't stand that anyone would side with them
07:06 PM - Apr 21, 2024
WHYYYYYYYYYYY DO YOU SHAME ME SO 🤦🏽♀️
statistically this shit is starting to make Latinos come off as the dumbest race in this country and as a proud Latino and academic this really irritates me
on behalf of my people I apologize for their - whatever the fuck their excuse for this bullshit is
statistically this shit is starting to make Latinos come off as the dumbest race in this country and as a proud Latino and academic this really irritates me
on behalf of my people I apologize for their - whatever the fuck their excuse for this bullshit is
06:40 PM - Apr 21, 2024
