It’s really fucking weird to see the disconnect between the powers that be and regular people regarding Israel/Gaza.
I can’t really think of anything in my lifetime that had the same disconnect. Was the invasion of Afghanistan/Iraq this protested? Vietnam maybe?
The gulf war under Bush Junior saw millions of people marching regularly for months. I shot over 800 hours of video of those marches myself, in Detroit and Windsor.
It’s really fucking weird to see the disconnect between the powers that be and EVERYTHING.
Iraq was sorta, but that was also playing on the damaged psyches of people who had been attacked in a way never thought possible. It was obviously lies and a lot of us could see it from the start. But we were told to luv it err leave it by people who don’t know the meaning of “free speech.” I wasn’t around for Vietnam, but the difference there was that people were being drafted to go and die.
So this is the first mass movement of the sort where Americans don’t directly have skin in the game, other than Apartheid. And I don’t think that was anywhere on the scale of these other three, but I was a little kid and will defer to those who have more perspective on the matter.
Hahaha. She wasn’t even protesting. She was being awarded for compassion to suffering and she literally just noted other suffering she had compassion for, but acknowledging other’s suffering in a way that’s not politically correct to the jackboot administration is “putting others in danger.”
Oh I hope my fellow nurses teach this employer a lesson.
Pointing out that killing women and children is bad is “divisive.”
Amazing.
I hope they strike until she’s reinstated. If employers can fire you for something like this they can censor you for utilizing basic rights including safety
States in this country have laws forbidding people from holding certain jobs or collecting insurance for natural disasters if they speak against Israel / Zionism. There was a bit about it on Last Week Tonight a while back, before Oct 7. You should be able to find it on YouTube.
Isn’t NYU a public university? If so, this seems like a first amendment violation.
CUNY is NYC schools and SUNY is the state system. I don’t think NYU is public
NYU is private
Very sad to see for this nurse.
