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Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social |
Consider my mind boggled. In 1968, Columbia demonstrators literally held a Dean *hostage* for 26 hours, and not only did he not retaliate after being released, HE WROTE SOME OF THEM REFERENCE LETTERS.
But now it is just straight to the cops.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/n...
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Kirk Murphy
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Cate 🐬
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grown ups used to be cooler
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rifka the unhinged fat activist
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alt failed to save i think. tricksy hobbit that
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riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་
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If only people would go read "Up Against the Ivy Wall" they would learn so many incredible details about what happened at Columbia in 1968.
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Slurp Juice Magnate 🧃
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Top marginal tax rates in 1968 we almost double what they are today.
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RI Smith
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And Columbia still considered their response in 1968 so excessive that they wrote a 50 year retrospective discussing how much they've learned and changed.
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TommyBenBergman
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Compare the pictures of today’s Columbia graduates and 1968s and you will understand the deference. (Of course we already knew)
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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Meanwhile, at UNC, interim Chancellor Lee Roberts intends to pursue legal and institutional action against anti-genocide protesters he already subjected to police brutality. So that’s where things are in 2024.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
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Self-Examined
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I mean, as a Navy man, he probably knew captive Navy pilots held by the Vietcong in conditions far less comfortable than faculty offices at Columbia. I suspect that the issue at Columbia had to do with "outside agitators" calling and messaging the dean and mayor, not intrinsic to the protesters.
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SkynetAndChill.com
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another mind-boggling fact, he later got shot by a student www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/n...
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Dave Dissents
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"There had been plenty to eat." It was basically just a nice lil vacay.
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Guy from place
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Sam Jackson held MLK Sr hostage once. I swear.
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Joe Gerteis
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I mean, they did shoot the kids at Kent State. It wasn’t all easy going.
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henry sholar
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der Weltgeist is a lot less geisty nowadays compared to back then
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bouquets.iptv
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bouquetstv.video.blog/contact/
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Cait Dalsweight
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I really think there's been two shifts in culture that make a difference here. I think since the sixties, overall, people are moderately more apt to applaud petty vengeance, and much more likely to fear other people in general. Older people especially seem more deeply afraid, even in my lifetime
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
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I can just imagine the guy chilling in his room, going "hey, it beats paperwork".
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Dan "Toothpick" Shick
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alternate ending to Uncut Gems (2019)
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Cmdr. Hange
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Fuckin snowflakes at the top
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Ⓐudri Sciuto ★
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Sounds like he was a smart man who understood the value in disobeying orders. Understood that the intention behind the actions was not to harm, but rather gain public attention for the issue they were demonstrating for.
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TeeMcfee
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Columbia admin allowed the Rethuglicans to bully them into calling in the cops. Disgusting
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Debbie Alexander
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So you feel that someone who is taken hostage is over the line for going to the police about it?
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Lebanon Link 🌎 ✨ ❤
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504 Protest was comparable.
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Alexandra Lahav
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In the 1980s they occupied the law dean's office and she negotiated with them until 10 pm, after which different professors stayed up all night negotiating with them until morning, when they reached a settlement. That dean was Barbara Black.
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@robmillerr.bsky.social
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I'd like to see photos of those demonstrators ... I can't white figure out why they were handled differently back then, but I think seeing photos of them might help me understand
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Tim Carvell
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In 1992 protestors blockaded Hamilton Hall and trapped the dean, Jack Greenberg, in his office for seven hours. He did a phone interview during it and said, “I went on to the first wave at Iwo Jima. This is nothing.”
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Casmilus
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It was 1968. Everyone was high.
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