I might be a minority of one, but all this coverage and over-reaction to the student protests are making things worse, not better.
Completely blown out of proportion and wild assumptions about who and what is happening, with, as usual, the worst actors being used as examples of the whole. I get the feeling some would not be happy until we…
I might be a minority of one, but all this coverage and over-reaction to the student protests are making things worse, not better.
Completely blown out of proportion and wild assumptions about who and what is happening, with, as usual, the worst actors being used as examples of the whole. I get the feeling some would not be happy until we have another Kent State.
Stop stirring the pot and let the schools deal with it without outside political pressure.
This is starting to look like the Iraq War, where only one viewpoint is allowed and all others must be punished.
I agree, there is a sense of piling on. They’re kids and they think they’re defending an underdog. Israel has over reacted and it will probably get worse, the kids aren’t wrong. But the tents and the flags are too much; breaking into buildings is too much. Luckily my kids have graduated! I wouldn’t want to be paying tuition at Columbia with this rumpus going on.
The school needs to deal seriously with any student who blames people who happen to be Jewish for whatever is going on in Palestine. It is the same stupidity that motivated a couple of laid-off auto workers to murder a Chinese person back in the 80s in retaliation because they believed they lost their jobs because of increased Japanese imports.
They can blame us. That protected speech. What they can’t do is threaten or harass us, or prevent our kids from getting on campus or to their classes, or touch us.
I might be a minority of one, but all this coverage and over-reaction to the student protests are making things worse, not better.
Completely blown out of proportion and wild assumptions about who and what is happening, with, as usual, the worst actors being used as examples of the whole. I get the feeling some would not be happy until we have another Kent State.
Stop stirring the pot and let the schools deal with it without outside political pressure.
This is starting to look like the Iraq War, where only one viewpoint is allowed and all others must be punished.
I agree, there is a sense of piling on. They’re kids and they think they’re defending an underdog. Israel has over reacted and it will probably get worse, the kids aren’t wrong. But the tents and the flags are too much; breaking into buildings is too much. Luckily my kids have graduated! I wouldn’t want to be paying tuition at Columbia with this rumpus going on.
God, me either. I’m surprised every Jewish mother isn’t making her kid come home to finish online.
The school needs to deal seriously with any student who blames people who happen to be Jewish for whatever is going on in Palestine. It is the same stupidity that motivated a couple of laid-off auto workers to murder a Chinese person back in the 80s in retaliation because they believed they lost their jobs because of increased Japanese imports.
They can blame us. That protected speech. What they can’t do is threaten or harass us, or prevent our kids from getting on campus or to their classes, or touch us.
Thank you. Well said.