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desire to not doxx myself vs desire to talk about what ive seen so far on [redacted]s campus

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holy shit my university just set up its first encampment

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The West insists on committing genocides and will do everything to maintain the status quo because the wealth of all these countries relies on large groups of people outside its empire to be oppressed and reduced.. there's no other way to stop this than to be as violent

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There is no other word to describe what New York is doing to the Columbia protestors other than fascist

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and when i wake up in the morning i will probably hear the gunfire and worse echo across the bay, as i do most mornings, from the training facility where they play with their toys so they know how best to use them against us

i dont even have the words to express what it feels like to be a NYC student at this moment

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genuinely like trying to process that i will be going into the city tomorrow for my last day of class ever at an institution that has undisclosed investments not only in but from a genocidal settler colonial regime that has exported the protection of itself and the nondisclosure of those investments to the state who do so with the violence of one the most militarized police forces on the planet

i dont even have the words to express what it feels like to be a NYC student at this moment

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i dont even have the words to express what it feels like to be a NYC student at this moment

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only 20-50 students in hinds hall and well over an officer for each of them storming the building. very worried someone is going to die tonight

columbia students live on WKCR 89.9 local FM & live on instagram. this is insane

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WKCR-FM, Columbia University’s non-commercial student-run radio station, is dedicated to presenting a spectrum of alternative programming.

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columbia students live on WKCR 89.9 local FM & live on instagram. this is insane

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in general I think this website has a serious problem about wanting to feel smugly superior about Literally Everything without spending even five seconds thinking about it first

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opening the reblogs on this post again bc it’s been enough time i feel Safe and also to say: if your first thought when discussing contemporary eugenics is CRISPR i don’t think you know enough about eugenics. not to say it’s like impossible for CRISPR to be used for eugenic purposes (or that other genetic technologies aren’t being used in this way) but that this should not be our primary example because it completely overlooks the social mechanisms by which most contemporary eugenics is carried out. familiarize yourself with the everyday violence of that and how it is eugenic before talking about a genetic technology that is barely available for use on people at all

people keep bringing up eugenics in my evolutionary bio class

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paper turned in & i presented . lets gooooo

reading a bunch of papers on brassica oleracea domestication n these guys r a little fucke d up . remind me to tell u all about it later

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went on a terf blocking spree and they were sharing this tweet around

and like obviously this is factually wrong - “homosexual rights” happens primarily through de-pathologising homosexuality, quite literally an effort to redefine sexuality and sexual activity, which was commonly followed by a legal redefinition of marriage in many states as not only being between a man and a woman, and parenthood as not being strictly done by a mother & father - that’s redefining gender categories! Gender doesn’t exist as a repressive force independent of political & legal institutions. Universal paternity leave is a redefinition of gendered reproductive labour through employment and labour policy, it is a structural economic benefit that incentivises fathers to participate in child rearing. This is a (limited, partial) redefinition of what it “means” to be a man, just as gay marriage is a redefinition of what it means to be a husband or wife, just as allowing gays to adopt is a redefinition of motherhood and fatherhood. 

And this denial of being in an “ideological cult” is also intentionally downplaying the massive homophobic outcry that gays were/are in fact trying to destroy the meaning of family and marriage - that gay marriage would let you marry your dog, that gay parents are all pedophiles, that even expanding the definition of the nuclear family to include cis gays would threaten to destroy all categories of familial and civic life. Denying that gay rights are not viewed as an “ideological cult” of their own is laughably homophobic.

Taking this argument to its natural conclusion - that cis gays just want to be “left alone,” they aren’t here to “redefine” anything unlike the transsexuals - means a comprehensive denial of the law as an institution that produces patriarchal and gendered violence, that societal conceptions of gender (and the oppression produced by those conceptions) are unaffected by legal redefinitions of family and marriage. An absurd claim! This argument denies patriarchy as a social force, assigning it instead to this mystical abstract force that exists “out there” in nature, unable to be punctured or altered by any social response. Like tbh if you believe that why even fight for gay marriage at all? Just accept your lot in life as broken men and women with a mental disorder that makes you incapable of raising a family.

But of course they don’t actually really believe this, they know what side their bread is buttered on. Cis gays got themselves removed from the ICD and DSM, got gay marriage legalised in a bunch of countries (the tweet’s exclusive use of past tense when talking about gay rights implies the fight for gay equality is finished, an obviously narcissistically western & homophobic argument) and said fuck you got mine! The king granted us entrance into his castle unlike you freaks, all we ever wanted was a seat at his table. Liberation is not the goal, cis gays just want to be permitted equal access to the power of cisheterosexual society. This tweet is arguing that gender is not a relevant mechanism in the oppression of homosexuals, that their oppression is altogether something else, unrelated to ideas of what it means to be a woman or man, because they want access to the violence those categories produce. Destroying these categories makes this goal unattainable for them, and so now cis gays are continuing to pivot to reactionary opposition to trans rights. But don’t take my word for it - I’m just repeating what this guy’s saying!