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Speaker Mike Johnson booed at Columbia University as he calls for president to quit (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] WhatsHerBucket 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Columbia students: protesting peacefully and testing boundaries, exercising free speech

Columbia President: Let’s call NYPD and arrest them all

Columbia Staff: wtf?

Mike Johnson: How can I make this worse? I know, force the president of the school to resign for not doing enough, and call in the National Guard

And fuck all those ads I endured to read that.

[–] shalafi 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

protesting peacefully and testing boundaries, exercising free speech

Doesn't sound like that on the ground:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/opinions/columbia-university-protests-greenblatt/index.html

And I'm sure plenty (more) of bad actors have slipped in since. It's not as cut-and-dried and lemmy is making it out.

[–] pennomi 13 points 5 months ago

Ehhh, that article sounds pretty biased. Yes, Jewish students don’t deserve to be persecuted, and yes, people who break the law should be arrested, but that’s true everywhere. Everything else in the article is just fearmongering.

[–] givesomefucks 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The full title:

Speaker Mike Johnson booed at Columbia University as he calls for president to quit unless pro-Palestine protests quelled

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Fuck both of them @givesomefucks 😂

[–] doingthestuff 4 points 5 months ago

America is politically divided. More news at 11.