• stembolts@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    Well stated. It’s been bothering me all of the people gate-keeping the ability to protest something that EVERY AMERICAN TAXPAYER is funding. On private universities… sure I guess that’s different, those students gave up their rights when they decided to go to a private uni, but public universities?

    I get why universities do it, its a bad faith tactic so upper class administrators can find a reason to lick the boot and launch shock troops.

    But commenters on Lemmy? I don’t get it.

    Student or not, they should be able to protest. But maybe there is just something I haven’t thought of yet, I’m open to new opinions on this.

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      6 months ago

      They are trying to conflate outsiders and outside agitators. As if every person in a city of millions of people like L.A. interested in protesting at UCLA would either be a student or an agitator.