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(42,487 posts)Wawa delivers.
Ocelot II
(116,084 posts)But it will make them feel better about themselves and their privileged white kid righteousness.
Cha
(298,289 posts)What is this about.. are they on a hunger strike?
BannonsLiver
(16,552 posts)Cha
(298,289 posts)TY
betsuni
(25,877 posts)immunocompromised. The university would love them to be further weakened because they can't say no to unjust murder. It is her birthday but she would rather be standing in solidarity than doing anything else.
I don't know if on a hunger strike or they imagine the university is trying to starve them or something. In my opinion, she's practically crying because she can't have birthday cake.
wnylib
(21,844 posts)show her solidarity?
Cha
(298,289 posts)We'll see how the University responds.
betsuni
(25,877 posts)across the community and is therefore rare.
In 2014, faculty members submitted a petition for divestment but there was a counter-petition from students "rejecting efforts -- such as boycott, divestments, or sanctions campaigns -- that aim to demonize or assign absolute blame to either Israelis or Palestinians as they are counterproductive and drive the parties further away from compromise." Then the Center for Jewish Life submitted it's objection to divestment signed by faculty, parents and alumni.
Protesters whined about mean adults saying "process" to them and don't seem to understand.
University said that if rules and laws are broken, such as occupying a building, there has to be accountability. Of course.
Protesters are painting themselves into a corner. And the urgency, the hunger strikes -- as if a long slow process of divestment will make a bit of difference? It doesn't seem productive to me.
And the whining! I'd never show weakness like that if I wanted to look like a tough revolutionary. Whine privately.
Cha
(298,289 posts)Thank you for explaining all of this so well. The protesters/encampments go too Overboard to get their way.
They're always protesting the wrong people like the Holocaust Survivors, Met Galas.. and throwing their weight around Universities.. Breaking things and Blocking Jewish Students.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,221 posts)Beausoleil
(2,882 posts)Is that rude?
Goodheart
(5,354 posts)although I doubt it.
republianmushroom
(13,966 posts)sarisataka
(18,961 posts)Choices have consequences.
BTW Happy Birthday whoever you are.
Sympthsical
(9,208 posts)The hard core cringe my face just involuntarily contorted into caused physical pain.
In case anyone wanted to know what a total lack of self-awareness looks like - Exhibit A.
In addition, people keep objecting to these protestors being called privileged.
Also, Exhibit A.
BannonsLiver
(16,552 posts)Silent3
(15,469 posts)...how Israel, particularly Netanyahu, is dealing with Gaza.
But damn, they make feeling supportive hard.
unblock
(52,552 posts)Complicated situation, so much room for legitimate discussion, and this guy can't get past his idiotic notion of what some other people's size and shape should be.
LeftInTX
(25,899 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,203 posts)If this is their best then how insufferable do the rest of them sound?
Sympthsical
(9,208 posts)Coffee in my nose. Thanks ever so much.
I think this has to be the favorite thing read this week.
Tentifada.
That is so dismissively, sneeringly devastating.
betsuni
(25,877 posts)I see they are on a hunger strike, since Friday, and whining that the university isn't taking care of them. Seems the students expect doctors to come and take care of them because they don't feel very well after four days.
JoseBalow
(2,690 posts)Mosby
(16,447 posts)Pretty amazing features, especially for a protestor on a hunger strike. See for yourself:
Link to tweet
/mediaviewer
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,177 posts)betsuni
(25,877 posts)Nixie
(17,026 posts)And they are "immuno-compromised."
betsuni
(25,877 posts)The rest of us peasants just say "I don't feel very well, I think I'm coming down with something."
Nixie
(17,026 posts)Mountainguy
(609 posts)Other than herself?
PeaceWave
(65 posts)How do they expect to get their point across effectively when they start with a list of demands that includes Taco Bell and WiFi access?