• Mobilityfuture@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Why is everyone afraid of college students protesting? I mean this police state response goes back to before Kent State and Tianemen square no doubt.

    Well if it’s frightening- keep it up! There must be some form of agency there

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      2 months ago

      They aren’t.

      They are afraid of being labeled anti-semitic. That is what is driving this. Allowing the protests to exist gets the uni/president labeled anti-semitic, and that is unacceptable for the universities. The universities are then asking the police to break them up by force, because violent against students is more acceptable than being labeled anti-Semitic.