All these protests on college campuses

I wondered that as well, OP.

I read that many of those arrested aren't even students there...

I am quite sick of hearing of these protests and arrests.

All there little tents for camping out match. Someone supplied that shit.

Mostly students. Some issue-specific outsiders and a few outsiders who just live for this shit like the “professional protester “ advising Columbia students how to seize a building.

Someone is trying to vomit up 1968 all over again, which resulted in the election of the lawless tonsil stone Nixon. I vote Roger Stone as the puppeteer of these marionettes.

I work at a university that has protests going on. So many outsiders. And so many spoiled kids with nothing better to do at the end of the term.

NEW YORK CITY — Nearly half of protesters arrested in crackdowns on pro-Palestine encampment protests across Columbia and City College of New York didn't go to either school, according to reports, citing unnamed NYPD sources.

Police sources told CNN and New York Post that 134 individuals of 282 total protesters had no affiliation with either school, the outlets reported Thursday.

The definite figures reported came after a whirlwind media blitz in which reporters appeared to agitate Mayor Eric Adams with a simple question: how many "outside agitators" — his and the schools' main justification for deploying the NYPD — were arrested during the Tuesday night raids.

Adams had varying answers.

"It appears as though over 40 percent of those who participated in Columbia and CUNY were not from the school and they were outsiders," he said on NPR.

"Nearly half" weren't means the majority were affiliated. I think we all know Iran and others encourage this crap. And old leftist anarchists who never matured also show up. But the students still are responsible for their actions just as January 6th folks were. The ones who didn't leave when asked should be expelled.

When you have millions of people that majored in “social justice” and other majors that brainwash people into thinking they have to find reasons to protest every day, this is what we get. We basically have perpetual protesting in this country. It will continue forever.

Most of these people don’t have real jobs because who the hell is going to hire someone with 12 face piercings, purple hair and an Anthropology degree?

At UCLA they asked point blank the people being arrested if they were students, their major, the works - they’re students.

This is pretty much a continuation of the BLM protests and destruction. Everyone wants to virtue signal and have a fun time. Anything to get away from their dull lives. This gives the emotionally unstable meaning in their lives. They also want to be morally superior to everyone else, you know, all you complicit bastards who have lives and actually work for a living.

"She doesn't even go here!"

Good excuse not to study, and they’ll probably get a “participation A.”

More than 2,000 people have been arrested or detained on campuses across the country.

Of the fools arrested at Portland state, only 4 of them were actual students.

Saw my first protest in person today, a college on the UES. It was everything you could have imagined. Lots of awkwards and uggos - lots of purple/pink/yellow hair, septum rings, quite a few morbidly obese women in too small tank tops with belly fat showing, the guys majorly unattractive and nerdy, I'm sure more than a few identify as non-binary. All definitely fit a 'type' and are almost assuredly not representative of the student body (if they were students at all, who knows). You get the feeling they were in it for the fad, shouted all the same chants we've all heard before. I'm sure they'll be on to a different cause in a year.

There were a few Jews on the other side of the street kind of aghast at the whole thing as they held up hostage/Hamas are rapists posters.

[quote] Every bullet point in this list is true. But it's also complicated. There are no heroes in any of this, only victims on both sides, and plenty of blame to go around.

[quote] The situation isn't the binary black/white, good/bad the American psyche is culturally programed for. 3/

[quote] By picking either "side," you're forcing yourself to ignore many decades of baggage and history that brought us here, as well as very contemporary examples of atrocities committed by the "side" you do support.

[quote] The only people benefiting politically are Hamas, Netanyahu, and Putin,

Hello?

R3, no matter what you think of the protesters it’s not hard ordering cheap tents from Amazon.

R9, I’m sure that everyone will be shocked to hear that Adams is wrong, at least concerning Columbia. The actual police information shows that about 29% of the people who were arrested were not affiliated with the school.

The Police Department list showed that most of the more than 100 people arrested in the sweep of Hamilton Hall and other parts of campus on Tuesday evening were in their late 20s, white and female. The average age was 27; more than half were women.

Of course.

And most were nonbinary autistics with peanut allergies

Really grossed out by the faculty members participating. Grow the fuck up.

Stats

Those same numbers were already mentioned by r9 and replied to. No surprise that most Columbia protestors were students. Thugs.

R26 They are probably the type of professors who like to be chummy with students.

The whole "outside agitator" thing is a way of delegitimizing a cause. They said that about people protesting in the South during the civil rights movement and the Minneapolis mayor made that false claim at the very beginning of the George Floyd protests. I don't now if that really matters. Are the civilian deaths in Gaza any less excessive because some the protestors aren't attending UCLA, Columbia, etc? The focus on the protests themselves seem like a way avoiding the real issue.

You're overestimating the cost of a tent, r3.

#11, don't forget Afrocentric schools which teach Rosa Parks, German Shepherds, firehoses and MLK, Jr. all day long.

"Are the civilian deaths in Gaza any less excessive because some the protestors aren't attending UCLA, Columbia, etc? "

No, but the civilian deaths in Gaza aren't being caused by college administrators in middle America, either. The protests are just performative BS by kids, professors and some outsiders who want to appear like they are doing something without actually getting on a plane to Gaza to go help their professed cause.

The vast majority of those arrested have been proven TO BE STUDENTS

[quote]didn't go to either school,according to reports, citing unnamed NYPD

Hey, R9 - I have some shocking news for you. COPS ARE NOTORIOUS LIARS

It very much depends on the school, R33. At CUNY the majority arrested were non-students. At Columbia, most were students.

On the evening news today, a student at the University of Chicago was berating the university administration for being "cowards" for not doing exactly what the student wanted with respect to the Gaza situation. As the student said it, he was wearing a mask so that he couldn't be identified and disciplined for university policy or law violations. So brave to call others cowards while wearing a mask! I guess they don't teach what "irony" is at the U of C.

A lot of these kids have never known real hardship. It's a shock to them that there are consequences for breaking the rules (and the law if they refuse to leave when trespassed).

[quote] What would you know about graduation ceremonies?

At my alma mater, there was an encampment that was cleared by the police. It got a fair amount of media coverage. When I looked at the pictures of the protest and encampment, maybe there were 200-250 protesters at its peak. There are more than 40,000 students at this university plus another 10,000 faculty, staff, administrators and hourly workers. What percentage is 250 out of 50,000? This is to say the protesters represented a tiny portion of the overall university community and this is true everywhere else.

Yet because they have attempted to relentlessly bully and intimidate the universities and their crazed tactics have generated a huge media event, they have made it seem like they have outsize influence and made it appear as though they speak for a majority on campus when they certainly do not.

R23 that nearly 1/3 of the protesters at Columbia were not students or affiliated with the university does seem to be a larger number.

[quote]Hey, [R9] - I have some shocking news for you. COPS ARE NOTORIOUS LIARS

So are Hamas and their apologists.

Ironic, no?

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Are outside protesters illegal?

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