Cornell Under Fire as Suspended Pro-Palestinian Student at Risk of Deportation | Common Dreams
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"This is a deliberate targeting of a Black Muslim student at an institution where those two identities are increasingly unwelcome," said the Ph.D. candidate, Momodou Taal.
  • hakase@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    922·
    2 months ago

    What?? Peaceful protest my ass - they violently broke into the Statler Hotel past a whole ring of security and completely trashed multiple career fair tables in the middle of the crowded career fair. The company reps and the students trying to make professional connections fled the hall in fear, and the event had to be completely cancelled.

    This guy (and all of the other students being kicked out) deserve every bit of what they’re getting, and this kind of bullshit one-sided reporting completely justifies my ever-increasing skepticism whenever I hear people bitching about consequences at so-called “peaceful” protests.

    • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.works
      81·
      2 months ago

      The best part is that when cornell sent out their email admonishing the action, the only example of violence they could cite was an officer’s bodycam getting bumped. It was a non-violent act of civil disobedience.

      • hakase@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        49·
        2 months ago

        And civil disobedience that breaks the law in multiple ways: trespassing on private property, disrupting a private event, terrorizing Cornell’s guests on its own campus, and destroying those guests’ private property, has consequences.

        Cornell is completely within their rights to expel all of the students involved, and I strongly support their decision. Violent and aggressive acts of civil disobedience have always had consequences, and if people choose to participate, they must be ready to accept those consequences.

        If this guy had stayed outside and actually peacefully protested, he’d still have a position. But he didn’t, and now he’s kicked the fuck out of his grad program and out of the country.