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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Do you think maybe some things have changed since then? And since when is protesting to stop supporting a murderous regime "radical"?
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Perhaps the issue is the logical inconsistency.
"Israel and the IDF are committing genocide. Genocide bad!"
Okay, let's let the generous interpretation of genocide stand and say that we should criticize Israel for the callous treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. Fine. Where is the equal criticism of a hateful group in Hamas who has advocated for genocide in their own doctrine? How are they painting these terrorists as "freedom fighters"?
The one-sided narrative of these protests is laughably stupid, and shows absolutely no careful thought about the subject. It's full of those who link this conflict in with things that are only tangentially relevant at best:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/u...x_guide_recirc
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In interviews, the language of many protesters was also distinctive. Students freely salted their explanations with academic terms like intersectionality, colonialism and imperialism, all to make their case that the plight of Palestinians is a result of global power structures that thrive on bias and oppression.
“As an environmentalist, we pride ourselves on viewing the world through intersectional lenses,” said Katie Rueff, a first-year student at Cornell University. “Climate justice is an everyone issue. It affects every dimension of identity, because it’s rooted in the same struggles of imperialism, capitalism — things like that. I think that’s very true of this conflict, of the genocide in Palestine.”
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*groan* This reeks of a kid who learned of a new idea for the first time, and then tries to apply it to everything they see. It's lazy intellectualism, and doesn't make for a very good argument.
Fine, do your protests peacefully, without disrupting the ability of other students to carry on with their affairs. When you have to cancel graduation ceremonies, or start taking over administration buildings, that crosses the line from civil disobedience into something else that infringes on the liberties of others who don't share that view. And part of the idea of civil disobedience is accepting that consequences will inevitably come with that disobedience, such as arrests. Go read on what Dr. King had to say on the subject. It's part of the act of civil disruption to be arrested. It's part of the gameplan. You can't cry foul when it happens.