If You Aren’t Speaking Up Today, You’ve Chosen The Side of Tyranny
The stories of Mahmoud Khalil and Jasmine Mooney tell us all we need to know about the phase of political regression in which we have found ourselves today; the monstrous, bipartisan backsteps our elected representatives have taken for 25 years have crashed into relief as we ostracize allies, condemn the freedom of expression, and begin the process of mass detainment, deportation, and dehumanization of our own neighbors.
The Next New Wave
Columbia, in embracing the same tactics today as the likes of Berkeley then, has followed the playbook the latter employed to deal with discontent from student organizers; first employing rules of respectability against protestors before resorting to armed police and expulsion to quiet the loudest elements of their student body.
The Only Fools Are The Powerful Who Refuse To Act
Perhaps it is we who are the fools this year, the ones who are being dragged, kicking and screaming, through a false-democratic process with a potential genocidaire on one side and an active one and his enablers on the other. The Democratic Party, leaning as always – and as convenient – on the laurels of “tradition,” has decided that it will simply assume and accept the nomination of their one-term candidate despite the raging furor that lives within its own base at the simple thought of such an outcome.
The Issue With University Today Is Not How Complicated Things Are, But How Incredibly Simple Everything Is.
At the center of every modern social movement, colleges and universities have historically met the times and spurred the nation onward. Often to their own peril.