In a chilling development, the Trump administration has unleashed a full-scale witch hunt targeting nearly 900 faculty members within the University of California system. Their “crime” is signing open letters on the Israeli assault on Gaza and calling for the protection of Jewish and Palestinian students alike.
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- 1 year
Well uhm uh er ackyshually the first specifies that CONGRESS can’t make any laws against free speech, but trump is not congress, so uh uh chechkmate libtard!!!11!
- 1847953620@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
This is the real question. Americans don’t give enough of a shit to lift a finger and do anything about it.
- xzot746@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
Why do you think that is, I’m not screwing around but curious. Is it actually because of the military strength it helps the US project in the area or is there some other reason. I truly cannot understand why this is being endorsed by so many people and governments.
1 yearI’ve wondered, too. Is it driven by an obsessive hatred of Arabs and Muslims? The Christian Right’s fetish for armageddon? Oil? Kickbacks?
- Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Christian Zionism definitely plays a part but the answer is mainly the power of the pro Israel lobby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Foreign_Policy?wprov=sfla1
- Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Both political parties are captured by pro israel interest groups. It has been documented quite extensively by John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Foreign_Policy?wprov=sfla1
I have no idea how politicians can survive on a platform of suppressing opposition to genocide.
- xzot746@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
It is very strange to see how everyone capitulates on the whole ordeal. If you can’t recognize and call out a genocide for fear of backlash and attacks, then it should be obvious that very powerful people are pulling the strings.
It is quite disgraceful that governments and organizations are not calling it what it is for fear of something or someone.
- blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish1 year
No ML to call him genocide Trump? Guess they don’t care at all. Must have been all talk to get Trump elected.
- djsp@feddit.orgEnglish1 year
I for one find “Genocide Don” quite catchy. The problem with this label is that the man himself and most of his supporters will likely just shrug it off as if it weren’t worth denying; it would be like calling a paid assassin a “murderer”.
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish1 year
Yeah it’s funny how so many self-proclaimed “leftists” here are only ever interested in being critical of the Democratic party.
Huh.
- 1 year
With Trump it’s a given. His ideology naturally leads to genocidal behavior
- twistypencil@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Is there a secondary source for this because the lack of citations, and source have me itching to see this reported elsewhere
- garbagebagel@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
I feel like people are making me feel like I’m crazy for being worried for my uncle who is a (gay) social justice professor in California but I can’t be that fucking crazy right? He’s an activist and an immigrant, he should be getting the fuck out of there.
