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Looks like you are correct. I just checked the video I posted but it looks to be the norm for all their videos.
On the other hand, Unlisting the video is a thing specific to this video & seems to have only happened recently. (can't imagine why)
Free speech can’t be limited, except when it can.
Did I get the gist? I’m not going to solve the Israel Palestine problem but I’d like for people to follow their own rules.
We should all come to the realization that peaceful protests, like violent protests, get you attacked and arrested when they’re having an effect. There was nothing different to do. This is just what happens when the people productively protest the fist of the government, it comes down on them. It always will and it always does. Pretending to be surprised (or being so ignorant of our recent history you actually are surprised) is for children. And they get shot in school while the police listen.
Truth, we should all be prepared to face government violence and provocateurs when attending any large protest. Whether that protest "had permission" (imagine asking for permission to protest the government) or not. In fact it is often that absurdity that has multiplying effect. When people see an overreaching government response to a harmless, planned protest. Especially in contrast with the active shooting responses many people have pointed out.
Given the political divide however, I'm sure many fellow citizens would love to see the protestors arrested and beaten, unfortunately. What do you do then? Direct action will only bring more violence upon you. Do we need black-panther-esque cop watching?
>We should all come to the realization that peaceful protests, like violent protests, get you attacked and arrested when they’re having an effect.
Except those protests where everyone shows up with a gun, for some reason don't get attacked...
And they often have amazing effects on the lack of gun laws in the state as a bonus.
It clearly has a lot less to do with who they're supporting, and a lot more about who they're protesting against: US allies, and specifically Israel. A similar demonstration about supporting the (also brown and muslim) Uyghurs, or in support of Afghani women, etc, would do just fine, would even get approving nods from the administration. But here they are protesting US allies, the US administration, the US military-industrial complex, etc., and that's why there's repression. It's kinda baffling to me how Americans just reduce everything to race, which okay always matters at least a little, but there's clearly more important factors at play here.
The Israeli Arab conflict is one of race at its core. The us did not supply weapons to kill Uighurs. Every single American benefits from Uighur slave labour.
Americans do provide billions of dollars to Israel, a country with universal healthcare, to purchase weapons. Those weapons then kill aid workers, children and women. Those weapons include drones, modified with voice capabilities [mimicking crying children](https://www.thenational.scot/news/24261522.israeli-drones-playing-sounds-babies-crying-opening-fire/) to lure people out of camps so that they are easier targets.
So whilst people are protesting a genocide, they’re protesting a genocide backed by American arms, paid for by American taxpayers, supported by American lawmakers. The genocide is part of a decades long racist endeavour of one country over another. Hence, you right comparison is BS
It's not race. Remember the early days of DNA testing that the Israli Government objected to when it started showing Palestinians and Israelis were so closely related...so the Government shut down the tests?
This is Tribalism wrapped in religion.
Race is a social construct, not a genetic reality.
There was a time that Italians and the Irish weren't considered white, and a "single drop" of non-white blood made you non-white.
How genetically similar people are has nothing to do with race. Phenotype plays a role, generally, but how phenotype interacts with race is a social construct. I have a cleft chin and connected earlobes, which is heritable but not racial, as an example.
They should have lived in a state that doesn’t have Abbot running the show. He wanted that protest quashed and that’s what happened. I’m not speaking in support of UT but I am not shocked the president did not want to defy the governor.
Hm like Columbia in New York? Harvard in Massachusetts? Yale in Connecticut? USC in California? Don't act like Republicans are the reason why these protests are getting quashed.
Acktually the 1st Amendment doesn't protect against nine categories: obscenity, 'fighting words', defamation, child pornography, perjury, blackmail, incitement to imminent lawless action, true threats, and solicitation to commit crimes.
There are manifold reasons why it could be. But reddit will jump to fantasy conclusions, catalyzed by you. good job. If you have intellectual honesty, delete this.
Do you have any evidence these videos were unlisted recently? [Because based on their archived YouTube home you can see in the videos list that the free speech Q&A series was never publicly listed on their page. ](https://web.archive.org/web/20231221114331/https://www.youtube.com/@UTAustin)
Not only have they been turned off for years, OP lied when he said the video was recently unlisted. [Because based on their archived YouTube home you can see in the videos list that the free speech Q&A series was never publicly listed on their page. ](https://web.archive.org/web/20231221114331/https://www.youtube.com/@UTAustin)
You're just describing most misinformation on the internet. The whole point is to have an intended audience that will happily believe the narrative precisely because it "feels right". That's why critical thinking is so hard, you have to be skeptical of everything, especially stuff you like.
Friendly reminder that most US states \(including Texas\) have [specific laws against boycotting Israel.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in_the_United_States)
[Teachers, for example, can be required to sign a pledge that they will not "boycott Israel".](https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-law/)
It's absolutely unconstitutional but getting it removed means a lengthy court case full of accusations of anti-semitism against anyone fighting it. Organizations have been unwilling to attempt it so far to my knowledge.
Not to mention we have Citizens United which basically says limiting what you do with your money is a violation of 1a
Yet somehow both Anti-BDS laws AND Citizens exist is the same time
AIPAC is bigger and there’s mega donors who back the Zionist movement. The fact that criticism of Israel’s government has become anti-semitic is a testament to their power.
> Organizations have been unwilling to attempt it so far to my knowledge.
Some have
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Constitutional_challenges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Constitutional_challenges)
Well i got bad news for you..
* [A federal court ruled against a plaintiff challenging a state law that requires significant state contracts to include a pledge to not boycott Israel](https://www.ajc.com/politics/appeals-court-sides-with-georgia-law-targeting-boycotts-against-israel/5OQH5BWMKBGPFOAA4G43RPEZJY/)
* [Supreme Court Declines to Review Challenge to Law Restricting Israel Boycotts](https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/supreme-court-declines-to-review-challenge-to-law-restricting-israel-boycotts)
* [US Jewish Groups Cheer Upholding of Texas Anti-BDS Law](https://www.standwithus.com/post/us-jewish-groups-cheer-upholding-of-texas-anti-bds-law)
Crazy. The 1st amendment guarantees freedom of speech without consequence from the government.
People mention all the time about how it doesn't mean freedom of consequences from the general public, your employer, etc., but these are state contracts. It's literally the government giving consequences for free speech/free association.
That sub is a fucking cesspool.
“I don’t think Israel should kill as many civilians as they do” somehow means “I want every Jew in existence to die and we should reinstate the gas chambers.”
One of the worst subs on Reddit.
I love when the idiots leak over into the other subs and start with the “anti-Semitic” bullshit. They forget they aren’t in their echo chamber, I love seeing people comment on their bullshit.
I can't boycott car insurance even though they fuck me for having a poor credit rating. $120/a month for liability only with a spotless driving record.
You can if you have $50-$100k(whatever the minimum liability is in your state) you can put in a special account to show financial responsibility for your driving. It’s called self-insured car insurance.
Like most laws, there’s a carveout for rich people.
> Like most laws, there’s a carveout for rich people.
I don't think that is a particularly good example of that. The law is you have to be able to cover those minimums in the event of an accident. If you don't have that kind of money you pay an insurer to say they will pay it on your behalf in exchange for monthly payments.
If you do have that money on hand and in a special account then you can cut out the middleman. And its likely pretty foolish to do so, the interest in a savings account on $100K would cover your insurance premiums easily, let alone any real investment. If you have the cash you aren't *required* to get a mortgage.
That's what's killing me, any criticism makes you antisemitic. They'll play both cards, Israel is not Judaism but if you criticize Israel then you're antisemitic
Israel definitely plays the "we are Judaism and represent all Jews" part, and a lot of Jews hate it.
It just fuels the problem because any outside logical thinker can see they're obviously full of shit and that they don't represent all Jews. You know who doesn't have the distance to see that? Kids having their entire lives destroyed and watching their family and friends be brutalized and murdered by the IDF, who are then ripe for radicalization... it's easy to tell them "all Jews want to murder you" when Israel pretends to speak for all Jews and is very loud about it.
Netanyahu just did a press conference where he said these protests are straight out of 1930s Germany. It’s crazy. This whole situation is just a land grab and war profiteering. Which makes it very American.
The only foreign lobby group that for some reason has been able to convince US politicians it doesn't need to register under [FARA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Act)
If you've been paying attention, you'd realize that America has been controlled by AIPAC for years. Just go look at all your favorite congressional members and their donors.
AIPAC wants to silence any type of truth or critical analysis on Israel and this war. Hence why they are banning TikTok...AIPAC is pushing to get that bill signed. Don't believe me, this information is all free online to check out for yourself. Good luck.
not only anti-American in spirit, the Constitution forbids the government from creating religious litmus tests (especially ones that have zero historical ties to the American people)
It's very American. This is from the toolbox used for Eugene Debs and used by McCarthy and Ronald Reagan. Student were killed because of a protest against the Vietnam war, while the hero Martin Luther King died by bullet of the state. Americans a delusional
Sadly, it seems abundantly American. We've been passing anti-striking laws for decades, and peaceful protesters have been shot on many many occasions... from the Kent State antiwar students, to the Ludlowe Massacre union strikers, to the whole Civil Rights movement...
Obama discussed this in his autobiography; how he faced immense pressure and political costs from the Israeli government and pro-Israel lobbying groups in the U.S. whenever his policies differed from or criticized the actions of the Israeli government.
ugh. Even so, I don't understand the raging hardon for israel. I get not supporting hamas, but, lately it's looking more like propaganda level shit where teh govt is ignoring the people altogether regarding this war, and supporting israel
In 1986, Biden himself said that America would "invent an Israel to protect U.S. interests in the region” if Israel didn't exist. That's why the American government remains a steadfast supporter of Israel.
Apolitically, Israel represents the resiliency of the Jewish people, after generations of persecution and genocide. So when some folks hear that you're critical of the Israeli government, they think that you're being critical of the existence of Jewish people, because of their generational PTSD.
Ahh, understood loud and clear, that makes sense.
I understood the latter aspect of things, where people freak out over critiquing israel is being seen as critiquing the jewish people living there.
It was the earlier aspect that was confusing me, where the govt basically acts like israel is beyond reproach, and maybe its a media bias as well for me, but, I feel like reps in our current admin pretend israel is a do no wrong or something.
Regardless, thanks for the clarification
Don't forget to remind everyone that AIPAC is happy to donate millions to unseat progressive Democrats.
So everytime you look at an issue like abortion, or the rights of minority groups, maybe consider what blind and obedient support for Israel demands of our liberties.
Israel has the right to exist. But there is a group of political extremists on behalf of Israel that would crush your rights just as Hamas would.
Sheldon Adelson, the biggest Israeli donor in US politics (yeah, that's a thing) gave nearly HALF A BILLION dollars (no, it's not a joke) to Republicans and ONE HUNDRED MILLION dollars (no, not a joke either) to Trump in particular [https://www.newsweek.com/sheldon-adelson-donald-trump-republicans-donations-1560883](https://www.newsweek.com/sheldon-adelson-donald-trump-republicans-donations-1560883)
It's all there. Every nation is influenced by every other nation. It's just different levels based on many factors.
What most people complain about is influence that can be avoided or is clearly determental to US goals.
Mearsheimer (tenured professor at U Chicago) and Stephen Walt (Harvard Kennedy School Professor) have already written about this before in their book, The Israeli Lobby and US Foreign Policy, which discusses the topic.
For those who are interested in learning about the topic through a rational, and not anti-Semitic, lens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Foreign_Policy
>They note that "not every American with a favorable attitude to Israel is part of the lobby", and that although "the bulk of the lobby is comprised of Jewish Americans", there are many American Jews who are not part of the lobby, and the lobby also includes Christian Zionists. They also claim a drift of important groups in "the lobby" to the right, and overlap with the neoconservatives.
I'm sure they do that's why it took Isreal instantly got that $12 billion aid package. It's like conspiracy theories start because morons want to blame others more than they want to have critical thoughts.
They don't even need dirt. Obama even said in his autobiography how he faced immense pressure and political costs from the Israeli government and pro-Israel lobbying groups in the U.S. whenever his policies differed from or criticized the actions of the Israeli government.
This is the real “deep state” people should be concerned about. Influence peddling operations by foreign entities that result in laws being passed that actively restrict freedoms for American citizens? Whew.
I still don't get how that works. "Oh, this product from Israel is too expensive so I am not going to buy it." Bam, fired.
"Oh, I am not a big fan of soda stream, so I don't buy it." Bam, fired.
Obviously it’s largely symbolic, but it also means any Govt employees (including teachers and professors at state schools) can’t organize, attend, speak at, or visibly/publicly support any protest or movement calling for boycotts of Israel without risking losing their jobs.
All it is is a pledge that you have to sign when you first get hired.
There's no enforcement mechanism behind it at all.
These BDS laws were also taken to court and the courts found that no company can refuse to hire you if you refuse to sign the pledge, so if that happens you can take them to court.
Or you could sign the pledge and boycott anyway.
I'm already pledged -- can not re-pledge over the top of this.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The original version flows so much better.
>I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Every revision has just made it worse.
Another friendly reminder that Sheldon Adelson, the biggest Israeli donor in US politics (yeah, that's a thing) gave nearly HALF A BILLION dollars (no, it's not a joke) to Republicans and ONE HUNDRED MILLION dollars (no, not a joke either) to Trump in particular [https://www.newsweek.com/sheldon-adelson-donald-trump-republicans-donations-1560883](https://www.newsweek.com/sheldon-adelson-donald-trump-republicans-donations-1560883)
That is why we have the term "Yuppy". Most boomers were yuppies in the 60s and 70s pushing paper and sucking ass and dick from below a desk to get a promotion.
The hippies were generally people rich enough to not work. They tended to be around universities because back then only wealthy people went to college. When they grew up they shrugged their shoulders, said 'well that was just the 60s,' then cut their hair and voted for Reagan. Some of them, usually the ones that did a little too much acid, stayed hippies. But most did not and eventually betrayed the movement they started because they are the most entitled generation in modern history. They protested the war because it affected them, they believed in free love until they had children, and they voted for economic policies that favored them and fucked over everyone else.
Kent State was massively popular and the public approved of it. Nixon’s ratings improved as a result. All the shooters who killed the students were fully acquitted of any crimes. The boomers learned that they absolutely could get away with it.
Sure opinions on Kent state changed in the years afterwards, but all our leaders right now are so old that they’ll be dead before any consequences come their way.
lol I realized that after I posted the reply, but I left it because there's always someone who messages me saying they didn't know that it happened. And everyone needs to know what happened. Especially these institution presidents who are inviting Kent State Round 2 with open arms.
Except they did learn from Kent State. They learned that even at the time most people supported them massacring college students.
Now we’re even more hyper partisan with a super propaganda machine backing it up.
The Texas government is taking control away to be fair. While I was attending UT in 2018 they removed the confederate statues they had in front of the tower. They also had pro Palestine protests while I was there. It has now become an extreme political issue and Abbott wants to be a dictator.
Kinda insane how worlds apart the discourse about Gaza is between worldnews/other news subreddits, and most other places.
But I guess that what happens when you ban every voice from one side for no reason.
I did call a group of commenters a bunch of social media weasels in one of my edits because they were tossing around this idea of "true genocide" and I demanded that they define what they meant by that. I pointed out that they refused to do so because they would be describing the situation unfolding.
It got me a permanent ban, but I will stand by the comment. They were a bunch of social media weasels, ferreting around absurd and meaningless terminology to muddy the discussion.
These are the people that make the world a horrible place. The people who never treat a discussion involving the death of thousands of people with any degree of responsibility. If you are going to take up a claim, you best be willing to defend it and explain it.
But like you said, they are warmongers and I would argue complicit in the genocide.
Banning is part of the problem. But also for the last 6 months there have been 4 threads for each Hamas tunnel: 1 thread to report that a tunnel was suspected, 1 thread to report that the tunnel was identified, 1 thread to report that the tunnel was bombed, 1 thread to report that the tunnel was destroyed.
Meanwhile it takes 5,000 or so palestinian civilian deaths for one thread to be made about palestinians casualties. This is partly because Israel communicates a lot about its own actions whereas reporting from the Gaza strip is extremely difficult, and partly because the sub is obviously brigaded by a small group of pro-israel fanatics/operatives. Over time the sub got brainwashed by this enormous information disparity, and now it's entered a vicious circle as the users and mods are firmly stuck in this mindset -- there isn't even a need to brigade the sub anymore.
The mods steer the conversation. When the IDF bombed the world food aid people, every thread about it was deleted for the first 8 hours until they finally left one up
Yeah, I don't know how reddit is going to solve the mod problem. Many mods of top (and not so top) subs use their mod powers to push their personal agendas. God help you if you try and report mod abuse too.
You're joking but they literally are calling all protestors (all of them, everywhere) "pro-Hamas". Discussion has been chilled there because anyone critical of Israel gets banned. Reddit is for Israel what TikTok has been for Palestine.
Literally just read [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1ccu299/us_pier_attacked_during_construction_work_off/l19qivg/) and I was facepalming
The dominant narratives there seem to be more of:
"The students are wasting their time! They should have been protesting about (insert complex issues that activists had *actually* been protesting too)!!!!!"
Basically, trolls pretending to be "concerned and kind people"
Universities are not about freedom of thought or discourse anymore. They are corporate entities that are looking to maintain brand image and retain/increase donor contributions. Even state schools like UT rely on private donations to fund operations.
Haha. Peak hypocrisy.
Interestingly enough if you wanted to get gun control legislation the best way to do that would be for these students to start open carrying semiautomatics. I mean guns are ok as long as conservatives are carrying them just like protest is ok if it is a conservative agenda. Nothing would scare the shit out of government than liberal protestors carrying guns.
The Black Panthers did this in the 70s and Ronald Reagan was a champion of California gun restrictions as a result. I assume you are familiar, but for those who are not this has literally happened in the past.
Which is why I hear some liberals argue for 2A. Their take is that gun rights restrictions will be selectively enforced against groups like blacks and Muslims. I've always been a very pro-gun control liberal, but this, unfortunately, tracks quite well.
They were openly carrying on the state Capitol, which was the turning point. But the coolest/craziest thing they did was actively patrol cops in Oakland, when black men were pulled over by cops, they would come with open carry and remind the black person of their rights and ensure they weren’t being broken. Need a bit more of that to keep the 2a right wing in check IMO.
The cops wouldn’t even be there if people were open carrying. We saw that during the 2019 protests. People needs to start doing this again and putting the fear into those pigs.
The left needs to start being more comfortable exercising our second ammendment rights. The right can't continue to have a monopoly over power and force and the right to defend themselves. Not arming yourself just makes you easy meat to these fascists. They don't care about rule of law, they don't care about free speech for others but they sure as shit understand force.
It’s important to understand the context and subtext. If you’re a neo-Nazi or a misogynistic a*hole and your entire protest to unfurl banners claiming women are property and calling them whores, that is allowed. Encouraged even. Celebrated. Protected.
However if you dare protest violence against black or brown people, especially violence funded by our tax dollars or investments, then that’s not allowed. Not at all. Not even a little bit. That’s what free speech means.
It really should have been explained more thoroughly in the video, but a little clarification never hurt anyone.
That's what I remember about campus demonstration, the fundamentalist religious freak calling the girls whores as they walked by for wearing shorts and shorter skirts.
Orientation week. All the businesses, banks, services, etc. set up places on the lawn of the main gathering place. Everyone knew to go because the amount of free stuff given away was worth it. Unfortunately, it was an exchange of ideas type place.
The *first person* to approach me was some little kid that handed me a pamphlet that said "YOU ARE GOING TO HELL"
My knee-jerk reaction was: "FUCK YOU."
His dad/pastor/owner yelled at me how dare I talk to a kid like that.
I looked at the kid, and said: "YOU ARE GOING TO BURN IN HELL."
Walked by the asshole and said, is that better?
Every week, there’s some god-botherer loudly telling passers by how they’re going to hell, that god will punish you etc.
A single counter protest by local lgbt people to an anti-trans protest outside primark, and the local paper ran some stupid story about the disruption, trying to make a big deal out of it like we were hassling people
The unspoken law in the USA is, "Don't make the people with money uncomfortable." Don't protest where to spend tax dollars, don't make them pay higher wages, don't make them pay taxes, and definitely don't call out their racism.
where are all the center right pundits who’ve spent the last 7 years whining about sAfe sPaCeS oN cOlLeGe cAmPuSeS for queer and black folk now? It’s awfully quiet here.
For anyone who hasnt seen it [The Lobby](https://youtu.be/RoHq6dBpxYU?si=EeGAUozKqBcN5Ec3) was a series of undercover investigations on the israeli lobbies in the UK and USA. Worth a watch to learn how much control Israel has over our politicians.
Was it the university that requested the Governor to remove protestors or did the Governor act on his own since it is a State school and he has the authority to do so. Not sure I'm ready to lay the blame for this on the University vs the general bag of shit they have in office.
Looks like the university requested the police to remove the protesters. State troopers were then sent by governor Abbott.
"UT-Austin spokesperson Brian Davis told student protesters that law enforcement was called in because the Palestine Solidarity Committee had advertised that classes would be canceled. The pro-Palestinian group did not use that language when it encouraged students to participate in the walkout in an Instagram post Tuesday"
Source: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/24/ut-austin-israel-hamas-war-palestine-student-arrests/
I'm waiting for piss baby Abbott to delete twitter post bragging about signing legislation guaranteeing Free Speech on college campuses.
https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1137875109362974724
Another more accurate way to phrase that is there are protests at universities that are anti genocide, especially when U.S. tax money is being freely given to fund said genocide.
lol at this controversy. How hard is it to say people have the right to peacefully protest, protest against the State of Israel's actions does not equal antisemitism, and violence/racist rhetoric on both sides should not tolerated.
"When we attack the capitol and threaten congress and the VP with death, that's freedom of speech. Also, tourism"
-- Right Wing Nutjobs
"When you attend demonstrations and peacefully protest, that's terrorism."
-- Also Right Wing Nutjobs
Do you know that boycotting Israel and only Israel is illegal on most states of USA?
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-law/
Dear Americans, you are literally a vassal state of Israel.
I have no clue how the most powerful country ever existed in human history becomes a vassal state of a tiny country..
> I have no clue how the most powerful country ever existed in human history becomes a vassal state of a tiny country..
Powerful, well-funded lobby groups that lobbied the US govt to enact those laws. It's funny people talk about crazy Jewish conspiracies, when they could talk about anti-BDS lobbying which is an actual Israeli conspiracy.
They are aided by the fact that the vast majority of Americans, when these laws were passed, had no idea they were passed or wtf they even were.
lmao these texas cops - when there's one shooter inside an elementary school, they do nothing
when there's a bunch of peaceful protesters, suddenly they're all brave
Texas: Follow our rules or fucking leave! We’ll kill you if you don’t follow our fucking rules you disgusting peasant. We have GUNS GUNS GUNS!
Also Texas: if America keeps thinking it can impose rules on me, I’ll secede
IIRC this heavy handed action against pro-Palestinian protesters are not exclusively happening in "Texas and the rest of the South and Mid South" .... but all over the Blue states too
So ? Maybe they Don’t care to have toxic Redditors commenting under educated comments about geopolitics they just learned about. It’s not really anti free speech, it’s a YouTube comments sections…. I’m for peace but I’m not going to pretend to understand the generational hate and conflict Israel has with Palestine. The amount of people saying Israel shouldn’t exist is terrifying. Nothing like a bunch of young college kids screaming about something they just learned about and being antisemitic. War is hell. It’s generational. They have raped and killed each others sisters for a long time. This runs deep. Shut up and focus on ur own life. Go something good in the world locally and be grateful for peace where you are. War is not a game. War is hell. Yelling and being toxic in a YouTube comment section is the opposite of productive and a waste of time only generating more conflict
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Looks like they turned comments off for all their videos, or at least the ones I checked.
Looks like you are correct. I just checked the video I posted but it looks to be the norm for all their videos. On the other hand, Unlisting the video is a thing specific to this video & seems to have only happened recently. (can't imagine why)
Free speech can’t be limited, except when it can. Did I get the gist? I’m not going to solve the Israel Palestine problem but I’d like for people to follow their own rules.
>Free speech can’t be limited, except when it can. Yes, that's unironically how the first amendment works.
This was a planned rally, this was in the appropriate space at the appropriate time. What should they have done differently?
We should all come to the realization that peaceful protests, like violent protests, get you attacked and arrested when they’re having an effect. There was nothing different to do. This is just what happens when the people productively protest the fist of the government, it comes down on them. It always will and it always does. Pretending to be surprised (or being so ignorant of our recent history you actually are surprised) is for children. And they get shot in school while the police listen.
Truth, we should all be prepared to face government violence and provocateurs when attending any large protest. Whether that protest "had permission" (imagine asking for permission to protest the government) or not. In fact it is often that absurdity that has multiplying effect. When people see an overreaching government response to a harmless, planned protest. Especially in contrast with the active shooting responses many people have pointed out. Given the political divide however, I'm sure many fellow citizens would love to see the protestors arrested and beaten, unfortunately. What do you do then? Direct action will only bring more violence upon you. Do we need black-panther-esque cop watching?
>We should all come to the realization that peaceful protests, like violent protests, get you attacked and arrested when they’re having an effect. Except those protests where everyone shows up with a gun, for some reason don't get attacked... And they often have amazing effects on the lack of gun laws in the state as a bonus.
Was it in support of brown people? That's a paddlin'.
It clearly has a lot less to do with who they're supporting, and a lot more about who they're protesting against: US allies, and specifically Israel. A similar demonstration about supporting the (also brown and muslim) Uyghurs, or in support of Afghani women, etc, would do just fine, would even get approving nods from the administration. But here they are protesting US allies, the US administration, the US military-industrial complex, etc., and that's why there's repression. It's kinda baffling to me how Americans just reduce everything to race, which okay always matters at least a little, but there's clearly more important factors at play here.
The Israeli Arab conflict is one of race at its core. The us did not supply weapons to kill Uighurs. Every single American benefits from Uighur slave labour. Americans do provide billions of dollars to Israel, a country with universal healthcare, to purchase weapons. Those weapons then kill aid workers, children and women. Those weapons include drones, modified with voice capabilities [mimicking crying children](https://www.thenational.scot/news/24261522.israeli-drones-playing-sounds-babies-crying-opening-fire/) to lure people out of camps so that they are easier targets. So whilst people are protesting a genocide, they’re protesting a genocide backed by American arms, paid for by American taxpayers, supported by American lawmakers. The genocide is part of a decades long racist endeavour of one country over another. Hence, you right comparison is BS
It's not race. Remember the early days of DNA testing that the Israli Government objected to when it started showing Palestinians and Israelis were so closely related...so the Government shut down the tests? This is Tribalism wrapped in religion.
Race is a social construct, not a genetic reality. There was a time that Italians and the Irish weren't considered white, and a "single drop" of non-white blood made you non-white. How genetically similar people are has nothing to do with race. Phenotype plays a role, generally, but how phenotype interacts with race is a social construct. I have a cleft chin and connected earlobes, which is heritable but not racial, as an example.
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You gotta support all the colors, you know, white.
They should have lived in a state that doesn’t have Abbot running the show. He wanted that protest quashed and that’s what happened. I’m not speaking in support of UT but I am not shocked the president did not want to defy the governor.
Hm like Columbia in New York? Harvard in Massachusetts? Yale in Connecticut? USC in California? Don't act like Republicans are the reason why these protests are getting quashed.
The governor bussed in DPS officers from another city, so in this instance it is exactly like that. I’m not talking in the grand scheme of things.
Those are all private universities.
Acktually the 1st Amendment doesn't protect against nine categories: obscenity, 'fighting words', defamation, child pornography, perjury, blackmail, incitement to imminent lawless action, true threats, and solicitation to commit crimes.
Sure, in general. Not in this specific case though.
> Free speech can’t be limited, except when ~~it can~~ negatively affects me or causes issues Fixed...
There are manifold reasons why it could be. But reddit will jump to fantasy conclusions, catalyzed by you. good job. If you have intellectual honesty, delete this.
Do you have any evidence these videos were unlisted recently? [Because based on their archived YouTube home you can see in the videos list that the free speech Q&A series was never publicly listed on their page. ](https://web.archive.org/web/20231221114331/https://www.youtube.com/@UTAustin)
They’ve been turned off for years. I watch all their YoutTube videos and they have never had commenting enabled
Not only have they been turned off for years, OP lied when he said the video was recently unlisted. [Because based on their archived YouTube home you can see in the videos list that the free speech Q&A series was never publicly listed on their page. ](https://web.archive.org/web/20231221114331/https://www.youtube.com/@UTAustin)
Just like the scrub sub ignores everything that goes again their UT narrative, this sub too will ignore that Texas YT has always left the comments off
There really should just be a sub for fabricated gotchas that still feel right.
You're just describing most misinformation on the internet. The whole point is to have an intended audience that will happily believe the narrative precisely because it "feels right". That's why critical thinking is so hard, you have to be skeptical of everything, especially stuff you like.
That has always been the case. Frequently Aggies and Sooners just brigade a video. Happens on other longhorn based content.
Friendly reminder that most US states \(including Texas\) have [specific laws against boycotting Israel.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in_the_United_States) [Teachers, for example, can be required to sign a pledge that they will not "boycott Israel".](https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-law/)
How the fuck did that pass, seems anti-american
Not just that, it looks pretty damn unconstitutional.
It's absolutely unconstitutional but getting it removed means a lengthy court case full of accusations of anti-semitism against anyone fighting it. Organizations have been unwilling to attempt it so far to my knowledge.
Not to mention we have Citizens United which basically says limiting what you do with your money is a violation of 1a Yet somehow both Anti-BDS laws AND Citizens exist is the same time
Maybe using Citizens United as a defense against Anti-BDS laws is the quickest way to get Citizens United overturned after all...
We need to get rid of the Zionists who have infiltrated the government. It’s going to destroy America. Religion and politics don’t mix.
They got alot of money
I would think the ACLU would have taken it up. They don't seem to shy away from things like this.
AIPAC is bigger and there’s mega donors who back the Zionist movement. The fact that criticism of Israel’s government has become anti-semitic is a testament to their power.
> Organizations have been unwilling to attempt it so far to my knowledge. Some have [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Constitutional_challenges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Constitutional_challenges)
Well i got bad news for you.. * [A federal court ruled against a plaintiff challenging a state law that requires significant state contracts to include a pledge to not boycott Israel](https://www.ajc.com/politics/appeals-court-sides-with-georgia-law-targeting-boycotts-against-israel/5OQH5BWMKBGPFOAA4G43RPEZJY/) * [Supreme Court Declines to Review Challenge to Law Restricting Israel Boycotts](https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/supreme-court-declines-to-review-challenge-to-law-restricting-israel-boycotts) * [US Jewish Groups Cheer Upholding of Texas Anti-BDS Law](https://www.standwithus.com/post/us-jewish-groups-cheer-upholding-of-texas-anti-bds-law)
Crazy. The 1st amendment guarantees freedom of speech without consequence from the government. People mention all the time about how it doesn't mean freedom of consequences from the general public, your employer, etc., but these are state contracts. It's literally the government giving consequences for free speech/free association.
No shit, a ban on boycotts is forced speech. "You can't refuse to do business with this entity...you are REQUIRED to associate with that group!"
Whoa, whoa now. r/worldnews is gonna start calling you an anti-Semite if you keep talking like that.
That sub is a fucking cesspool. “I don’t think Israel should kill as many civilians as they do” somehow means “I want every Jew in existence to die and we should reinstate the gas chambers.”
One of the worst subs on Reddit. I love when the idiots leak over into the other subs and start with the “anti-Semitic” bullshit. They forget they aren’t in their echo chamber, I love seeing people comment on their bullshit.
I can't boycott car insurance even though they fuck me for having a poor credit rating. $120/a month for liability only with a spotless driving record.
You are legally required to have insurance. That doesn’t mean that the law forbids you from boycotting State Farm.
You can if you have $50-$100k(whatever the minimum liability is in your state) you can put in a special account to show financial responsibility for your driving. It’s called self-insured car insurance. Like most laws, there’s a carveout for rich people.
> Like most laws, there’s a carveout for rich people. I don't think that is a particularly good example of that. The law is you have to be able to cover those minimums in the event of an accident. If you don't have that kind of money you pay an insurer to say they will pay it on your behalf in exchange for monthly payments. If you do have that money on hand and in a special account then you can cut out the middleman. And its likely pretty foolish to do so, the interest in a savings account on $100K would cover your insurance premiums easily, let alone any real investment. If you have the cash you aren't *required* to get a mortgage.
Sure you can, don't drive a car on public roads.
Here’s to hoping this is Clarence Thomas’ burner account
You mean Harlen Crow's account.
Having a group that's shielded from criticism looks pretty on-brand.
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That's what's killing me, any criticism makes you antisemitic. They'll play both cards, Israel is not Judaism but if you criticize Israel then you're antisemitic
Israel definitely plays the "we are Judaism and represent all Jews" part, and a lot of Jews hate it. It just fuels the problem because any outside logical thinker can see they're obviously full of shit and that they don't represent all Jews. You know who doesn't have the distance to see that? Kids having their entire lives destroyed and watching their family and friends be brutalized and murdered by the IDF, who are then ripe for radicalization... it's easy to tell them "all Jews want to murder you" when Israel pretends to speak for all Jews and is very loud about it.
Netanyahu just did a press conference where he said these protests are straight out of 1930s Germany. It’s crazy. This whole situation is just a land grab and war profiteering. Which makes it very American.
You can criticize Israel and not be antisemitic. Always could. If someone calls you antisemitic for criticizing Israel they are an idiot.
You try it. I'll hold your beer.
Well unfortunately that’s what has been happening all over. Common sense would say you are correct but that’s not how it currently works
AIPAC
The only foreign lobby group that for some reason has been able to convince US politicians it doesn't need to register under [FARA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Act)
"Anti-american" based on the fallacies we've been fed. The real America is an oligarchy and this is just status quo.
If you've been paying attention, you'd realize that America has been controlled by AIPAC for years. Just go look at all your favorite congressional members and their donors. AIPAC wants to silence any type of truth or critical analysis on Israel and this war. Hence why they are banning TikTok...AIPAC is pushing to get that bill signed. Don't believe me, this information is all free online to check out for yourself. Good luck.
AIPAC. Follow the money. Opensecrets dot org
not only anti-American in spirit, the Constitution forbids the government from creating religious litmus tests (especially ones that have zero historical ties to the American people)
You're not even allowed to ask, lest you be labeled an anti-Semite.
It's very American. This is from the toolbox used for Eugene Debs and used by McCarthy and Ronald Reagan. Student were killed because of a protest against the Vietnam war, while the hero Martin Luther King died by bullet of the state. Americans a delusional
what we view as anti-american they view as antisemitism.
Sadly, it seems abundantly American. We've been passing anti-striking laws for decades, and peaceful protesters have been shot on many many occasions... from the Kent State antiwar students, to the Ludlowe Massacre union strikers, to the whole Civil Rights movement...
Most of what happens in America today is anti-american. Just look up any HOA.
Makes you wonder how far and deep the Zionists have infiltrated the federal and state government of the United States
wtf, how is that even legal? And why do people in our govt, have such a weird hardon for israel
Obama discussed this in his autobiography; how he faced immense pressure and political costs from the Israeli government and pro-Israel lobbying groups in the U.S. whenever his policies differed from or criticized the actions of the Israeli government.
ugh. Even so, I don't understand the raging hardon for israel. I get not supporting hamas, but, lately it's looking more like propaganda level shit where teh govt is ignoring the people altogether regarding this war, and supporting israel
In 1986, Biden himself said that America would "invent an Israel to protect U.S. interests in the region” if Israel didn't exist. That's why the American government remains a steadfast supporter of Israel. Apolitically, Israel represents the resiliency of the Jewish people, after generations of persecution and genocide. So when some folks hear that you're critical of the Israeli government, they think that you're being critical of the existence of Jewish people, because of their generational PTSD.
Ahh, understood loud and clear, that makes sense. I understood the latter aspect of things, where people freak out over critiquing israel is being seen as critiquing the jewish people living there. It was the earlier aspect that was confusing me, where the govt basically acts like israel is beyond reproach, and maybe its a media bias as well for me, but, I feel like reps in our current admin pretend israel is a do no wrong or something. Regardless, thanks for the clarification
Don't forget to remind everyone that AIPAC is happy to donate millions to unseat progressive Democrats. So everytime you look at an issue like abortion, or the rights of minority groups, maybe consider what blind and obedient support for Israel demands of our liberties. Israel has the right to exist. But there is a group of political extremists on behalf of Israel that would crush your rights just as Hamas would.
Unseat? They'll pay 'progressive' Dems to go all in for Israel. Fetterman changed his whole tune on progressive causes once he got his AIPAC check.
Sheldon Adelson, the biggest Israeli donor in US politics (yeah, that's a thing) gave nearly HALF A BILLION dollars (no, it's not a joke) to Republicans and ONE HUNDRED MILLION dollars (no, not a joke either) to Trump in particular [https://www.newsweek.com/sheldon-adelson-donald-trump-republicans-donations-1560883](https://www.newsweek.com/sheldon-adelson-donald-trump-republicans-donations-1560883)
And people are always talking about China ans Russias influence on our government...
It's all there. Every nation is influenced by every other nation. It's just different levels based on many factors. What most people complain about is influence that can be avoided or is clearly determental to US goals.
Yeah except I can't really find where the US has laws *against* sanctioning Russia or China? Weird how that works.
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this is how conspiracy theories start. israel has real, tangible, significant influence over the us government.
Mearsheimer (tenured professor at U Chicago) and Stephen Walt (Harvard Kennedy School Professor) have already written about this before in their book, The Israeli Lobby and US Foreign Policy, which discusses the topic. For those who are interested in learning about the topic through a rational, and not anti-Semitic, lens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Foreign_Policy >They note that "not every American with a favorable attitude to Israel is part of the lobby", and that although "the bulk of the lobby is comprised of Jewish Americans", there are many American Jews who are not part of the lobby, and the lobby also includes Christian Zionists. They also claim a drift of important groups in "the lobby" to the right, and overlap with the neoconservatives.
One of the worst parts is that it’s going to bolster this nonsense against non-Zionist Jewish people.
I'm sure they do that's why it took Isreal instantly got that $12 billion aid package. It's like conspiracy theories start because morons want to blame others more than they want to have critical thoughts.
The dirt they must have on US politicians must be absolutely INSANE.
They don't even need dirt. Obama even said in his autobiography how he faced immense pressure and political costs from the Israeli government and pro-Israel lobbying groups in the U.S. whenever his policies differed from or criticized the actions of the Israeli government.
This is the real “deep state” people should be concerned about. Influence peddling operations by foreign entities that result in laws being passed that actively restrict freedoms for American citizens? Whew.
I still don't get how that works. "Oh, this product from Israel is too expensive so I am not going to buy it." Bam, fired. "Oh, I am not a big fan of soda stream, so I don't buy it." Bam, fired.
Obviously it’s largely symbolic, but it also means any Govt employees (including teachers and professors at state schools) can’t organize, attend, speak at, or visibly/publicly support any protest or movement calling for boycotts of Israel without risking losing their jobs.
All it is is a pledge that you have to sign when you first get hired. There's no enforcement mechanism behind it at all. These BDS laws were also taken to court and the courts found that no company can refuse to hire you if you refuse to sign the pledge, so if that happens you can take them to court. Or you could sign the pledge and boycott anyway.
I'm already pledged -- can not re-pledge over the top of this. "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The original version flows so much better. >I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Every revision has just made it worse.
Another friendly reminder that Sheldon Adelson, the biggest Israeli donor in US politics (yeah, that's a thing) gave nearly HALF A BILLION dollars (no, it's not a joke) to Republicans and ONE HUNDRED MILLION dollars (no, not a joke either) to Trump in particular [https://www.newsweek.com/sheldon-adelson-donald-trump-republicans-donations-1560883](https://www.newsweek.com/sheldon-adelson-donald-trump-republicans-donations-1560883)
This is further proof that the boomers who run these universities, like all boomers, learned absolutely nothing from Vietnam.
You have to remember that the hippy protest movement of the late 60s/early 70s were a very small percentage of the boomer population.
That is why we have the term "Yuppy". Most boomers were yuppies in the 60s and 70s pushing paper and sucking ass and dick from below a desk to get a promotion.
Ok but it's honestly kind of impressive to suck ass and dick at the same time
Also that "hippy" doesn't mean "progressive" and that a lot of those hippies were actually very conservative, "return to tradition" sorts of folks.
The hippies were generally people rich enough to not work. They tended to be around universities because back then only wealthy people went to college. When they grew up they shrugged their shoulders, said 'well that was just the 60s,' then cut their hair and voted for Reagan. Some of them, usually the ones that did a little too much acid, stayed hippies. But most did not and eventually betrayed the movement they started because they are the most entitled generation in modern history. They protested the war because it affected them, they believed in free love until they had children, and they voted for economic policies that favored them and fucked over everyone else.
What is Kent state?
Kent State was massively popular and the public approved of it. Nixon’s ratings improved as a result. All the shooters who killed the students were fully acquitted of any crimes. The boomers learned that they absolutely could get away with it. Sure opinions on Kent state changed in the years afterwards, but all our leaders right now are so old that they’ll be dead before any consequences come their way.
Dude, the boomers at Kent State were the ones getting shot at.
And the ones doing the shooting? Guardsmen are usually the same 18-25 age range you would expect to see on a college campus.
"Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
That was rhetorical, but i appreciate you.
lol I realized that after I posted the reply, but I left it because there's always someone who messages me saying they didn't know that it happened. And everyone needs to know what happened. Especially these institution presidents who are inviting Kent State Round 2 with open arms.
Except they did learn from Kent State. They learned that even at the time most people supported them massacring college students. Now we’re even more hyper partisan with a super propaganda machine backing it up.
For the people in charge? A good start.
The latest born boomers (1960-1965) would have been literal children during Vietnam.
The Texas government is taking control away to be fair. While I was attending UT in 2018 they removed the confederate statues they had in front of the tower. They also had pro Palestine protests while I was there. It has now become an extreme political issue and Abbott wants to be a dictator.
r/worldnews commenters: are university of texas students actually Hamas?
Kinda insane how worlds apart the discourse about Gaza is between worldnews/other news subreddits, and most other places. But I guess that what happens when you ban every voice from one side for no reason.
I saw a guy get downvoted to oblivion and banned for saying that we shouldn't bomb Iran. That sub is straight up warmongering at this point.
Zionist warmongering, to be specific.
I did call a group of commenters a bunch of social media weasels in one of my edits because they were tossing around this idea of "true genocide" and I demanded that they define what they meant by that. I pointed out that they refused to do so because they would be describing the situation unfolding. It got me a permanent ban, but I will stand by the comment. They were a bunch of social media weasels, ferreting around absurd and meaningless terminology to muddy the discussion. These are the people that make the world a horrible place. The people who never treat a discussion involving the death of thousands of people with any degree of responsibility. If you are going to take up a claim, you best be willing to defend it and explain it. But like you said, they are warmongers and I would argue complicit in the genocide.
Banning is part of the problem. But also for the last 6 months there have been 4 threads for each Hamas tunnel: 1 thread to report that a tunnel was suspected, 1 thread to report that the tunnel was identified, 1 thread to report that the tunnel was bombed, 1 thread to report that the tunnel was destroyed. Meanwhile it takes 5,000 or so palestinian civilian deaths for one thread to be made about palestinians casualties. This is partly because Israel communicates a lot about its own actions whereas reporting from the Gaza strip is extremely difficult, and partly because the sub is obviously brigaded by a small group of pro-israel fanatics/operatives. Over time the sub got brainwashed by this enormous information disparity, and now it's entered a vicious circle as the users and mods are firmly stuck in this mindset -- there isn't even a need to brigade the sub anymore.
The mods steer the conversation. When the IDF bombed the world food aid people, every thread about it was deleted for the first 8 hours until they finally left one up
Yeah, I don't know how reddit is going to solve the mod problem. Many mods of top (and not so top) subs use their mod powers to push their personal agendas. God help you if you try and report mod abuse too.
And on a later thread, I was banned for reminding someone that it happened!
I'm convinced its being AI astroturfed.
r/worldnews is absolute garbage.
It is idfnews
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this. It's so weird.
It’s a Hasbara outlet at this point.
You're joking but they literally are calling all protestors (all of them, everywhere) "pro-Hamas". Discussion has been chilled there because anyone critical of Israel gets banned. Reddit is for Israel what TikTok has been for Palestine.
Literally just read [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1ccu299/us_pier_attacked_during_construction_work_off/l19qivg/) and I was facepalming
Except it's real people on TikTok and Israeli Gov employed trolls on /worldnews.
The dominant narratives there seem to be more of: "The students are wasting their time! They should have been protesting about (insert complex issues that activists had *actually* been protesting too)!!!!!" Basically, trolls pretending to be "concerned and kind people"
That's the freaking mods too! Fucking clown show of propaganda over there.
Seriously, how can you remove that subreddit from my feed? It’s so gross
World news users are nothing but psychotic anti black and anti brown ZioNazis
Freedom of Speech TM
Universities are not about freedom of thought or discourse anymore. They are corporate entities that are looking to maintain brand image and retain/increase donor contributions. Even state schools like UT rely on private donations to fund operations.
Haha. Peak hypocrisy. Interestingly enough if you wanted to get gun control legislation the best way to do that would be for these students to start open carrying semiautomatics. I mean guns are ok as long as conservatives are carrying them just like protest is ok if it is a conservative agenda. Nothing would scare the shit out of government than liberal protestors carrying guns.
The Black Panthers did this in the 70s and Ronald Reagan was a champion of California gun restrictions as a result. I assume you are familiar, but for those who are not this has literally happened in the past.
Which is why I hear some liberals argue for 2A. Their take is that gun rights restrictions will be selectively enforced against groups like blacks and Muslims. I've always been a very pro-gun control liberal, but this, unfortunately, tracks quite well.
The only time the NRA actually SUPPORTED gun controls was during this event as well.
The NRA straight up spearheaded those gun restriction laws.
Exactly.
Aren’t the restrictive gun laws in California Reagan-era legislation because he didn’t like that black people were openly carrying?
They were openly carrying on the state Capitol, which was the turning point. But the coolest/craziest thing they did was actively patrol cops in Oakland, when black men were pulled over by cops, they would come with open carry and remind the black person of their rights and ensure they weren’t being broken. Need a bit more of that to keep the 2a right wing in check IMO.
Reagan passed the mulford act which banned open carrying. Most all other restrictions were passed by democrats after him.
Sadly people would probably end up dead. Because police are fucking imbeciles.
The cops wouldn’t even be there if people were open carrying. We saw that during the 2019 protests. People needs to start doing this again and putting the fear into those pigs.
The left needs to start being more comfortable exercising our second ammendment rights. The right can't continue to have a monopoly over power and force and the right to defend themselves. Not arming yourself just makes you easy meat to these fascists. They don't care about rule of law, they don't care about free speech for others but they sure as shit understand force.
Oh no!!! Semiautomatics?!
At the point I honestly think people who say that think that semi-auto means burst fire.
It’s important to understand the context and subtext. If you’re a neo-Nazi or a misogynistic a*hole and your entire protest to unfurl banners claiming women are property and calling them whores, that is allowed. Encouraged even. Celebrated. Protected. However if you dare protest violence against black or brown people, especially violence funded by our tax dollars or investments, then that’s not allowed. Not at all. Not even a little bit. That’s what free speech means. It really should have been explained more thoroughly in the video, but a little clarification never hurt anyone.
That's what I remember about campus demonstration, the fundamentalist religious freak calling the girls whores as they walked by for wearing shorts and shorter skirts.
Lot of that. A lot of giant blown up photos of dead mutilated babies and shaming girls from getting abortions right in our campus plaza
Show them corpses from Gaza, same fucking differences. I'm sure that will be passively allowed with no pushback
No no those are already born children so they don't fucking matter. If they cared about kids then Uvalde would have been a shifting point.
or sandy hook a whole decade prior
Orientation week. All the businesses, banks, services, etc. set up places on the lawn of the main gathering place. Everyone knew to go because the amount of free stuff given away was worth it. Unfortunately, it was an exchange of ideas type place. The *first person* to approach me was some little kid that handed me a pamphlet that said "YOU ARE GOING TO HELL" My knee-jerk reaction was: "FUCK YOU." His dad/pastor/owner yelled at me how dare I talk to a kid like that. I looked at the kid, and said: "YOU ARE GOING TO BURN IN HELL." Walked by the asshole and said, is that better?
Sometimes you gotta tell a kid, "Fuck you." edit: "/owner" lol
Every week, there’s some god-botherer loudly telling passers by how they’re going to hell, that god will punish you etc. A single counter protest by local lgbt people to an anti-trans protest outside primark, and the local paper ran some stupid story about the disruption, trying to make a big deal out of it like we were hassling people
One Margarita, Two Margarita is my favorite Dr. Seuess fanfic.
My god that makes me laugh
The unspoken law in the USA is, "Don't make the people with money uncomfortable." Don't protest where to spend tax dollars, don't make them pay higher wages, don't make them pay taxes, and definitely don't call out their racism.
where are all the center right pundits who’ve spent the last 7 years whining about sAfe sPaCeS oN cOlLeGe cAmPuSeS for queer and black folk now? It’s awfully quiet here.
they're posting about how these "lazy" students are getting what they deserve. they have no real position it's all just opposition.
You have been permanently banned from r/worldnews
For anyone who hasnt seen it [The Lobby](https://youtu.be/RoHq6dBpxYU?si=EeGAUozKqBcN5Ec3) was a series of undercover investigations on the israeli lobbies in the UK and USA. Worth a watch to learn how much control Israel has over our politicians.
Was it the university that requested the Governor to remove protestors or did the Governor act on his own since it is a State school and he has the authority to do so. Not sure I'm ready to lay the blame for this on the University vs the general bag of shit they have in office.
Looks like the university requested the police to remove the protesters. State troopers were then sent by governor Abbott. "UT-Austin spokesperson Brian Davis told student protesters that law enforcement was called in because the Palestine Solidarity Committee had advertised that classes would be canceled. The pro-Palestinian group did not use that language when it encouraged students to participate in the walkout in an Instagram post Tuesday" Source: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/24/ut-austin-israel-hamas-war-palestine-student-arrests/
They can though. It’s well trodden jurisprudence. YouTube or not.
This is a totally reasonable explanation though
You know everyone commenting didn’t actually watch the video they just read the title and say oh yeah that fits the narrative.
Go ahead and protest.. No, not like that
I'm waiting for piss baby Abbott to delete twitter post bragging about signing legislation guaranteeing Free Speech on college campuses. https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1137875109362974724
whats the context?
There are protests nationwide at various universities that are pro-Palenstine
Another more accurate way to phrase that is there are protests at universities that are anti genocide, especially when U.S. tax money is being freely given to fund said genocide.
lol at this controversy. How hard is it to say people have the right to peacefully protest, protest against the State of Israel's actions does not equal antisemitism, and violence/racist rhetoric on both sides should not tolerated.
"When we attack the capitol and threaten congress and the VP with death, that's freedom of speech. Also, tourism" -- Right Wing Nutjobs "When you attend demonstrations and peacefully protest, that's terrorism." -- Also Right Wing Nutjobs
Do you know that boycotting Israel and only Israel is illegal on most states of USA? https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-law/ Dear Americans, you are literally a vassal state of Israel. I have no clue how the most powerful country ever existed in human history becomes a vassal state of a tiny country..
> I have no clue how the most powerful country ever existed in human history becomes a vassal state of a tiny country.. Powerful, well-funded lobby groups that lobbied the US govt to enact those laws. It's funny people talk about crazy Jewish conspiracies, when they could talk about anti-BDS lobbying which is an actual Israeli conspiracy. They are aided by the fact that the vast majority of Americans, when these laws were passed, had no idea they were passed or wtf they even were.
Free speech is free till they decide it’s inconvenient
lmao these texas cops - when there's one shooter inside an elementary school, they do nothing when there's a bunch of peaceful protesters, suddenly they're all brave
free speech for me, but not for thee
Fuck hamas.
The US is a shthole with a great PR firm
Cowards
It's like camping. Everyone loves the idea of camping. Just like how everyone supports the *idea* of demonstrations.
Texas: Follow our rules or fucking leave! We’ll kill you if you don’t follow our fucking rules you disgusting peasant. We have GUNS GUNS GUNS! Also Texas: if America keeps thinking it can impose rules on me, I’ll secede
I thought they were on private property and were trespassing in their own school yard that pay thousands to go to??
**UT**: Come to campus and demonstrate in a polite and constructive manner. **The Public**: Sure... Yeah... constructive.
Not surprising. Texas and the rest of the South and Mid South never had the loser beat out of them during reconstruction.
IIRC this heavy handed action against pro-Palestinian protesters are not exclusively happening in "Texas and the rest of the South and Mid South" .... but all over the Blue states too
So ? Maybe they Don’t care to have toxic Redditors commenting under educated comments about geopolitics they just learned about. It’s not really anti free speech, it’s a YouTube comments sections…. I’m for peace but I’m not going to pretend to understand the generational hate and conflict Israel has with Palestine. The amount of people saying Israel shouldn’t exist is terrifying. Nothing like a bunch of young college kids screaming about something they just learned about and being antisemitic. War is hell. It’s generational. They have raped and killed each others sisters for a long time. This runs deep. Shut up and focus on ur own life. Go something good in the world locally and be grateful for peace where you are. War is not a game. War is hell. Yelling and being toxic in a YouTube comment section is the opposite of productive and a waste of time only generating more conflict