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i think really beautiful things (&places&people) are also often frightening & i think if you try to avoid this fear you end up avoiding much of the beauty also. "things" here of course includes words and ideas and such also.

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the first result on google when you search for “joe biden i have no empathy for young people” is this snopes.com page, which reads a bit like

What’s True: He said it.

What’s False: Shut up. Vote blue no matter who.

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"The Kiss", a 12,000-year-old rock painting at Pedra Furada in Brazil

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a similar cop attack is happening at the city college encampment, CUNY, with massive numbers of police and much less media attention

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Columbia student flashes the peace sign after being beaten by riot police at an antiwar demonstration, April 1968

via reddit

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me n my tumblr girls

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the NYPD threatened to arrest jelani cobb, dean of the journalism school (based in pulitzer hall — the one that hands them out) if he left the building to watch what was going on

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“President [Joe] Biden respects the right to free expression, but protests must be peaceful and lawful,” said White House spokesperson Andrew Bates on Tuesday. “Forcibly taking over buildings is not peaceful — it is wrong. And hate speech and hate symbols have no place in America.” The White House stressed Biden had “stood against repugnant, antisemitic smears and violent rhetoric his entire life.”

Q And so, does the administration think that police force or police presence we’ve seen so far is acceptable? MS. JEAN-PIERRE [Biden press secretary]: Look, as far as police presence, that’s up to the colleges and the universities. That’s for them to decide. (x)

this is a president who cannot support a key constituency, who has not told the truth about the protests, instead choosing to further the smears of antisemitism, who has by so doing supported republicans and their lies, who cannot condemn or even mention the violent police action against students and faculty across the country, who cannot recognize the snipers who have had their guns pointed at students in indiana and ohio, and who has not applied any pressure on his fascist, genocidal friends, netanyahu, smotrich, and ben gvir. the choice in november is touted as between fascism and democracy. this is the defender of democracy? this is for whom students are supposed to vote, after everything he is doing now?

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Silver And Cold - AFI

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Throughout his life the conservatism and the radicalism wrestled within him. But the moment that best encapsulates that wrestling for me had nothing at all humorous about it. It is one of my sharpest early memories of him, in fact, from the spring of 1968. He was still teaching at Columbia, and it was being torn apart by the student protests. In late April, radical students occupied various university offices, including the president’s. A standoff ensued, and my father was one of the faculty members who tried to negotiate between the protesters and the university administration. He worried about the student movement, feared its wildness, looked askance at the hedonism associated with it, but still could not help sympathizing with its political radicalism. But on the night of April 29 the negotiations broke down, and the police moved in with nightsticks and tear gas. Many of the students were badly beaten, and hundreds were arrested. I remember waking up early on the morning of the 30th—I was six years old at the time—and finding my father, fully dressed, on the couch. He had been up all night and he was weeping uncontrollably.

Daniel Bell at 100

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the "outside agitators" nonsense that Columbia's administration has backed is a big lie - a transparent one - and it borders on irresponsible negligence for broadcasters like CNN to reproduce these claims without mention of the lack of evidence behind them.

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if you hear the students arrested tonight aren't students, it's more lies

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it's time, i think, that the uncommitted movement pivot to a general election strategy. it's true that using an election like this as leverage is drastic considering the potential alternative outcome but the cause to push the establishment away from its unconditional backing of a genocide, a profound crime against human life, morally supercedes domestic political concerns. We have an obligation to use the limited power we have as American voters to oppose the atrocities in which those who ostensibly represent us are active participants. The fact that those representatives are "better than the alternative" does not diminish the moral imperative to voice our opposition, nor does it come close to creating any sort of obligation to provide them with electoral support.

These police actions are happening with the approval of the Biden administration & that should be sufficient to disabuse voters of the notion that the current government has any interest in hearing the legitimate concerns of an electorate that rightly and justly objects to the genocide in Gaza.