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[–] [email protected] 131 points 11 months ago (4 children)

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." - Malcolm X

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy

"I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle." - Nelson Mandela

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The JFK quote here is perfect. A single line that evaluates exactly what is happening. And if violent protests are to occur, everyone will shake their heads and go “this isn’t America!”

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

The state of education in America 55 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The best thing about America is that the music always stays relevant.

System Of A Down - B.Y.O.B.

Wonder if we're going to get any World War 3 bangers soon.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Here's a whole album full, from around the same time - KMFDM - WWIII

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But props to the Columbia U staff for walking out. In other universities this was just par for the course, and the faculty stayed put as students were arrested

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago

Manufactured incident. If you read what those young adults on the ground are saying its clear this is the all being inflamed by the media and school officials. Not the students of which many are Jewish in support of Palestine.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This feels so our of context. Like, what is the link between the state of education and a picture of 20 police people standing on top of a stair?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They're at a university. Arresting students who are protesting against the genocide in Gaza. They want the university to halt collaborations with Israeli universities.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

whats the context? im ootl on this one.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's massive student protests for Palestine going on at American universities right now. The universities are calling in the police to arrest their students. Some have locked down their universities and moved to online-only lessons to ignore the protests.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Why do they care so much about the protests that they are having the students arrested? I don't get it. Just let them protest

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Protest is generly seen as criminal or crime adjascent behaviour in the US in my experience. The average person is unable to see the bigger picture that protest slot into and even in cases like this where nobody is inconvenienced somebody or some institution will cry about it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yep. A lot of people are uninformed and see protest as a disruption. Most people, even educated have tunnel vision sometimes. The people that get the big picture are empathetic or considerate and usually the ones who protest.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Students once again standing up for a populace having war brought to them courtesy of the US of A.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The Land of the Free*

* Unless you disagree with the mainstream narrative, in which case you should not be free.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

"Courtesy of th US of A" is more anti-US fluff than bare truth. Netanyahu and those of power in Isreal are due far more credit. Everyone involved is shite.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

i mean, the us of a is literally financing and enabling all of it...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

We deserve plenty of credit and i think passing it off as fluff is pretty disheartening to be frank.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yes, the famous American right to free speech

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No no, free speech is when you can say slurs on social media.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Context? What's a bunch of cops standing next to each other got to do with education? Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Students in America are protesting the genocide in Israel and American military aid for Israel. The response of their schools and local authorities has been to arrest them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You know the last time a bunch of poorly trained idiots were handed guns and told to stand around while students protest, they ended up shooting the students.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Students are protesting the Palestinian genocide. Texas sent state police to the campuses, to attempt to break the protests.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

4 dead in Ohio starts playing....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, conservatives originally demanded that Biden send the national guard to break the protests. They were obviously hoping for another Kent State scenario, which they could then leverage against him. When he refused, Texas sent the state police instead.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It sure as hell isn't an elementary school in Texas

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s a bit of fake news, blown totally out of proportion because of “Israel First.”

But still, ACAB.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The police crackdowns on pro Palestine demonstrations are pretty big right now I wouldn't say this is "out of proportion". Colombia shut down their entire school

This is the riot police showing up at the University of Texas today

And going into the school to cancel the protest

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yikes!

I mean the media characterization of “antisemitism” and the subsequent response is blown out of proportion.

To my knowledge the vast majority of protesters have welcomed Israelis into their ranks, and the few agent provocateurs from the first few days are gone now. Which makes sense, considering how much Bibi’s genocidal actions are undermining Israeli interests.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

USSA: "Education shall not pass!"

USSR:

"Take good care of book"In top right corner "Love book - the source of knowledge" by Gorky.

"Excelling in our duty"

"To build you should know, to know you should learn"Book in hand "technology of metals", books on table are "construction works" and "integral calculus".

"Our country should be most literate and culural country in the world", "Learn and work! Work and learn!", "To have more you should produce more, to produce more you should know more"

"...the task is TO LEARN!", reference to Lenin's quote "...to learn, to learn and to learn"

"Work at day, learn at evening"For context this is worker with medal "For Labour Valour"

In modern Russia even vandals are pro-education. But this is not thanks to, but despite current regime.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Gee, I wonder why tuition is so high and yet class sizes keep getting bigger and courses are increasingly stripped down to standardized testing format.

Where could all of that money gone?

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