Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag from a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses nationwide. The school promised they would face expulsion.
The occupation at Columbia — where protesters shrugged off an ultimatum to abandon a tent encampment Monday or be suspended — unfolded as other universities stepped up efforts to clear out encampments. Police swept through some campuses, spurring confrontations with protesters and plenty of arrests. In rarer instances, university officials and protest leaders have struck agreements to restrict the disruption to campus life.
You responded to my comment regarding increased police state with a historical act of police violence. How is that not the subject? Sure, there was always corruption. I’m suggesting it’s now the standard, not the exception.
I added to the discussion by providing a historic event showing that things were fucked up 60 years ago with protestors. Never said it hasn’t gotten worse or the state of the world hasn’t changed since then.
That was the intended implication of your link and message in that context.
You’re exhausting. Take care
You repeatedly edited your comments to change the conversation, and I’m exhausting? New account. 11 comments. Half of them deleted. Cool.
Conversation never changed. I apologize for edits. Again nothing was changed to redirect the narrative. You also edited all of your comments.
I’ve had this account for almost a year.
All I did was post a historic event that things were in fact difficult back then. Kids were getting shot and killed. It’s always been rough.
We are on the same side, but you have so much anger in you, you turned it into all of this.
I wish you the best.
I edited when I saw your comments were different, so my replies didn’t make sense in context.
Didn’t want to edit my comment because of how desperate you are to be “right”. So I’ll add it here.
In all seriousness though. You know what you did. You know how disingenuous you’ve been. You attacked me personally and gaslighted. All because I suggested maybe things have been pretty bad for college protestors for longer than you suggested.
I had no intentions of gaslighting. Your response implied something contrary to my comment. When I defended my comment with a response, you began editing your previous comments to change the conversation and the implications of my comments in turn. It was manipulative and dishonest.
Something is wrong with you.
Yes. I’m wasting my time responding to you.
Your account is the one that is flagged for being less than 30 days old. The other one is nearly a year.
My account is new. I was wrong. Their account isn’t new, it’s just been inactive.
Okay. That doesn’t really seem relevant. If they were trolling you or providing false information, I could see pointing to their account activity.
Looking at yours, you post nearly 40 comments a day. I thank you for your contributions to the fediverse, but most people don’t do that.
I’m temporarily disabled, so there’s not much else I can do right now. They kept editing their comments to change the implications of my responses. I looked at the account and saw 11 comments, and half were deleted. I was wrong to assume account age based on that information.
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Your original comment in response to the 1968 Vietnam protests stated “before we got all police-statey”, which any reasonable reading would see it as implying we were not a police state in 1968 and became one later. Dude posts about Kent State which happened in 1970 to show how we were already a police state around that time. How you manage to read that as saying things haven’t gotten worse since 1970 is beyond me.