Is this legit??

[jtwcornell91]

Based on some of the graffiti on campus this week, the behavior of some professors and the admin in general, I sadly don't think Cornell students can be dismissed as culprits.  Which makes me ashamed as an alum.

According to a NYT article, the offending professor requested a leave of absence.  I hope it's a long one.  Universities should be a place for informed debate, not mindless diatribes.

As long as Rickford remains on the faculty, Cornell isn't seeing another dime of my money.

Penn is going through a crisis now where Wharton Big Guns are staging a donor revolt, mostly aimed at the president. There seems to be a lot of line crossing between the situation we're discussing at CU and conservative "stop the wokeness" battle cries especially since a Palestinian literary event seen as the source of outrage occurred before this month's attacks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/us/university-of-pennsylvania-donors-israel-hamas.html (paywall)

https://www.businessinsider.com/university-of-pennsylvania-major-donors-pulling-funding-israel-hamas-war-2023-10

Strangely, the defenders of free speech on campus seem to be silent in this case: https://www.thefire.org/search?keywords=rickford

[Trotsky]

If the village supports it then you should absolutely nuke it.

The numbers I have seen for Gazan support for Hamas are in the 30s.  More than 50% of the population was not born the last time they won an election.

[ugarte]

in part due to tactics of the aggrieved.

Oh FFS.

There is a difference for the individual running the Belgian baby through with his Pickelhaube vs the pilot pushing the button to release ordinance on the Vietnamese village.  One is intimate and the other is industrial.  I, like you, feel the former is far worse as an individual action.

But the planners who design the attack plans are ethically identical.  They are, in the cool shade of their boardrooms or war rooms, setting in motion actions that result in mangled corpses.  They are the same, all things being equal.

We excuse them to the degree they are acting in self defense, but in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict both sides are equally acting in self defense, so the planners are identical in guilt.  

Please elaborate on rape, infanticide, and intentional murder of innocents (vs Unintentional collateral) fits into your idea of self defense.

if you still think in 2023 that the damage in palestine the idf causes is collateral i don't know what to tell you

[TimV]

in part due to tactics of the aggrieved.

Oh FFS.

There is a difference for the individual running the Belgian baby through with his Pickelhaube vs the pilot pushing the button to release ordinance on the Vietnamese village.  One is intimate and the other is industrial.  I, like you, feel the former is far worse as an individual action.

But the planners who design the attack plans are ethically identical.  They are, in the cool shade of their boardrooms or war rooms, setting in motion actions that result in mangled corpses.  They are the same, all things being equal.

We excuse them to the degree they are acting in self defense, but in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict both sides are equally acting in self defense, so the planners are identical in guilt.  

Please elaborate on rape, infanticide, and intentional murder of innocents (vs Unintentional collateral) fits into your idea of self defense.

if you still think in 2023 that the damage in palestine the idf causes is collateral i don't know what to tell you

If you don't understand the point I was trying to make I don't know what to tell you.

[Chris '03]

I see they announced an arrest for the Cornell anti-jewish statements thing.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/us/cornell-antisemetic-threats-person-of-interest/index.html

Was a student apparently.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzFWfJmsaKj/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[French Rage]

I see they announced an arrest for the Cornell anti-jewish statements thing.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/us/cornell-antisemetic-threats-person-of-interest/index.html

Was a student apparently.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzFWfJmsaKj/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Hopefully he (or maybe she? no, definitely a he) won't be for much longer.

[Chris '03]

I see they announced an arrest for the Cornell anti-jewish statements thing.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/us/cornell-antisemetic-threats-person-of-interest/index.html

Was a student apparently.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzFWfJmsaKj/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Hopefully he (or maybe she? no, definitely a he) won't be for much longer.

He. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/cornell-student-arrested-making-online-threats-jewish-students-campus

[underskill]

https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1719529211231195442

[ugarte]

Nehaambore doing more for the forum than this thread

[RichH]

Nehaambore doing more for the forum than this thread

Don't knock it. I'm so ready to invest in the global paper bags market now

[Trotsky]

Nehaambore doing more for the forum than this thread

Don't knock it. I'm so ready to invest in the global paper bags market now

What's our secret?

Volume.

[nshapiro]

I see they announced an arrest for the Cornell anti-jewish statements thing.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/us/cornell-antisemetic-threats-person-of-interest/index.html

Was a student apparently.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzFWfJmsaKj/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Hopefully he (or maybe she? no, definitely a he) won't be for much longer.

He. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/cornell-student-arrested-making-online-threats-jewish-students-campus

Has anyone seen any reference to whether he also was responsible for the anti-semitic graffiti as well?

[ugarte]

I see they announced an arrest for the Cornell anti-jewish statements thing.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/us/cornell-antisemetic-threats-person-of-interest/index.html

Was a student apparently.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzFWfJmsaKj/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Hopefully he (or maybe she? no, definitely a he) won't be for much longer.

He. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/cornell-student-arrested-making-online-threats-jewish-students-campus

Has anyone seen any reference to whether he also was responsible for the anti-semitic graffiti as well?

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