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Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social |
Speaking as college faculty...no. Rather, it is precisely **because** college students are forming strong bonds of community, interaction, and care that all of this is even possible. It's much of the rest of the US that's forgotten how to do that, and so looks on in terror.
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
@leafwarbler.bsky.social
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How do these guys keep getting it so consistently wrong?
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Jeff Davidson
@jeffdavidson.bsky.social
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Perhaps some very, very small groups of students are forming these bonds but they are bonds that exclude the vast majority of other students. There are over 30k students at Columbia. How many are protesting? What bond with or duty to the other students exists among the protesters?
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Danny Pinion
@sirala6.bsky.social
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Let's hope the young idealists have more luck than with "Defund the Police."
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@fcburleigh.bsky.social
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I'm surprised Zakaria would associate with predictable efforts to spin us into "chaos & disorder" froth. Like 2020, most protest is vigorous without violence, like on my campus (arrests about tents). It's good to resist bad stuff. Better to make fancy stories about why we *don't* resist wrongs.
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Dr. Holly Walters
@manigarm.bsky.social
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Also no.
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Gwen C. Katz
@gwenckatz.bsky.social
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They forgot to mention smartphones!
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rifka the unhinged fat activist
@rifka.bsky.social
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then use alt text, or ask for help, like disabled people are fully human and allowed to read the post
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Zeb Larson
@zeblarson.bsky.social
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Fareed Zakaria also opposed divestment from South Africa so I think this tracks
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True Libertine
@alantennisplayer.bsky.social
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I totally agree when you think of younger people what they have experienced in their young lives from school shootings to COVID lockdowns to zoom connection and political polarization it’s great seeing them united
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Vassili67
@cj1wv2bwjkbw3.bsky.social
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Palestina Livre.
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Alyssa Harad
@alyssaharad.bsky.social
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Gotta love how he’s illustrating his point with a photo of students massing together to defend themselves against armed state police on horseback.
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Anthony Pham
@viridianth.bsky.social
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The "free exchange of ideas" the neo-liberals love to tout much also includes the thorough rejection of bad ideas like capitalism, fascism, genocide, and the intersection of all those bad ideas.
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)
@themodsisyphus.bsky.social
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This was an exceptionally ignorant take from Fareed. Also, as your post notes, not rooted in fact? No one in the pundit class seems to want to take the step of actually speaking with students…
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SimplyPsyke🏳️⚧️
@simplypsyke.bsky.social
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All these "experts" seem to have avoided any actual research or interviews with people who would know this shit, like just making up any opinion is somehow valid and needs to be published., bananas.
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Scott #ACAB Black Lives Matter Menor 🍉
@smenor.com
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Yup it’s literally the opposite
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EnberLight - Comms Open!
@enberlight.bsky.social
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...how does he even look at communities coming together to act as one and go "this must be happening because they don't have the ability to form communal bonds!" *gestures* what's that then? Maybe he means they're not insular enough.
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Nix Onyx
@nixonyx.bsky.social
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I think you could take that even farther and say that there would be more protest elsewhere (and about other things like Healthcare, wages, affordable housing etc) if bonds of community were stronger among the working class in particular.
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Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com
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Yes. His take is fucking insane. So off the mark as to be clownish
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hammancheez
@hammancheez.bsky.social
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these protests are literally made up of a broad smorgasboard of college students they are literally the community any college kid could walk into these protests even with an Israeli flag on their back and if they weren't trying to start shit they would not be harmed beyond salty language
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Carl Nyberg
@carlnyberg312.bsky.social
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Fareed Zakaria's shtick can be reduced to saying what rich white people want to hear and making it seem like an international perspective because of his appearance and accent.
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Excalibur Discount Legal Services
@kevychristian.bsky.social
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Since when have colleges not been a hotbed of protest? I protested the Iraq war in NYC when I was their age. There were like a goddamn million people at that thing. Mainstream media is just upset about how much they've lost control of shaping the narrative thanks to social media.
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Kait Richardson 🏳️⚧️🥔
@qirenni.com
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We are ruled by complete sociopaths without a theory of mind.
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Carolinaskies
@carolinaskies.bsky.social
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Fleas at college wag the social media dogtail. Where are the student councils holding debate? It's closer to blockparty mentality with 1% desiring to make any non-conforming statement on one side of the D&D 8 sided die.
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Brandon Frick
@brandonfrick.bsky.social
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Just like when the is happened in the 60’s. The kids are on TikTok, and not in the Student Center.
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En Buen Ora
@enbuenora.bsky.social
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when there are protests w/liberal-left aims there must be other explanations--cultural mind control, modern communications, secret big money but whenever there's some sort of public movement of right wingers, it is pure, it is id, it is Real America rising, we must heed their true call
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Michael Purves
@mpurves.bsky.social
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question: it seems like based on the photographs floating around that there are a lot more female than male protestors . is this true ?
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Think. It. Through. 🙅♂️
@cfaller96.bsky.social
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Here is Fareed Zakaria in arguing against divestment from apartheid South Africa:
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Big Fat Bartolo's Colon
@bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social
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I don't know much, but I'm pretty sure protesting is something you do because you care about the community
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Norbizness
@norbizness.bsky.social
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The only place Mr. Zakaria belongs on campus is on display in the Paleontology Department
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Accountabilabuddy
@accountabilabuddy.bsky.social
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The same people telling us we need to "listen to the real grievances" of the reality-denying January 6 terrorists are telling us these students are just succumbing to trendy groupthink and should be [dismissed|arrested|bludgeoned| shot].
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Dr. Amuly (she/he)
@amuly.bsky.social
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literally the only way to do these kinds of protests is if y ou've got a crazy strong community on campus. anyone who's done activism knows how hard it is to get people to show up
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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Always good to hear from noted plagiarist Fareed Zakaria.
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Nihl L'Amas
@nih-llamas.bsky.social
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I was just watching the recently-uploaded full episodes of Last Week Tonight. Here's Fareed Zakaria 10 years ago, drooling over Narendra Modi getting elected. (25:30+)
youtu.be/GEQXe4YWFxw?...
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(Don't Cry For Me) Open Doorley
@tchotch.bsky.social
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Why are they all coming together to work towards a common goal when they should be home alone watching television? Must be the decline of community
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Steven DeCaluwe
@drdecaluwe.bsky.social
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I cannot believe how dim he comes across when trying to make sense of anything complex. Never mind me very much questioning the premise of “chaos.”
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Brian
@overungerdunn.bsky.social
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If the kids only mingled more they could ignore the tens of thousands of people killed by American bombs and Israeli genociders.
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elenore
@dropthatphone.bsky.social
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Famously, the most common sign of having no sense of community is joining, organizing, and maintaining a concerted effort of dozens or hundreds of people toward agreed-upon goals.
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CZEdwards
@czedwards.bsky.social
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If Fareed was a light, he’d project like the beam on the Luxor. His community links feel weak to him, so of course that must be what everyone experiences.
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Jesse Berney
@jesseberney.bsky.social
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they'll make up a million reasons instead of just saying they're mad about genocide
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Nina Horisaki-Christens
@ninahorisakichr.bsky.social
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I'm beginning to wonder what the headlines would've read like had the anti-Iraq War protests happened in the current mediascape.
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John Trant
@trantteam.bsky.social
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I don't know where the media finds these idiots. "College students peacefully protest genocide, so we MUST SMASH THEM WITH THE FULL POWER OF THE POLICE STATE" is the only accurate and rather weird take. Frankly, I am equally disgusted and bemused at the response of administrations.
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@cateatdog.bsky.social
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Fareed Apartheid Zakaria
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@fleezlow.bsky.social
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The colleges that arenin "chaos" are the ones where the admin sicced the cops on protestors
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Bethany Albertson
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right? Listen to the Columbia journalism students on the night that they were locked in a building. Read the UCLA Hillel group's letter, see all the images of students waiting outside of jails for protestors to be released - these are students who are looking out for each other & their communities.
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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I love how this keeps coming back
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Luxe Chronicles
@luxechronicles.bsky.social
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Thank you for this. You’re exactly right.
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jaunte
@jaunte.bsky.social
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Why are media celebrities committed to spreading the idea of "campus chaos?"
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@serenity666.bsky.social
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Fareed is a useful tool for the elite ruler class, nothing more. Most of his “expertise” comes through access, not knowledge.
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wet beast
@ribbon.dog
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"people are coming together to voice their discontent as a group because community is weak" is a wild outcome to reach
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Max Phillips
@signaltype.bsky.social
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is practically every Famous Serious Person actually extremely dumb
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Reluctant Rebel
@reluctantrebel.bsky.social
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We destroyed our commons to build parking lots and extra wide roads so everyone could own their own personal automobile where they never have to interact with their neighbors.
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Entery Potivon
@goodguyprime.bsky.social
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We can’t really expect a brigade of walmart cashiers and ten minute oil change technicians to make an encampment at the mall…and that’s how they want it.
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