Hey Gen! Just checking if you are cold, also, how would you react if you saw another human? That you have never met before? Have a scarf so you don’t freeze
*after all this time. you hear a robotic voice talking.. and a person*
if a trans woman complains about the ongoing campaign of trans genocide in the united states and the uk and your response is “well it’s not TECHNICALLY genocide yet so you really shouldn’t use that word because it makes us look bad” i think you should perhaps actually just shut the fuck up and read literally any news coverage containing the words “trans” and “desantis,” just for starters
like wow so they’re not literally dragging us to camps??? it’s not literally a nazi germany style holocaust so you can’t call it genocide????? buddy do you think the fascists are BLUFFING?????????? grow the fuck up you child, because if you’re even a little bit not-cishetwhite they’re gonna use the “threat” us trans people represent as a pretext to come after you.
we call it a genocidal agenda NOW because that is THEIR STATED INTENTION. that is the ONLY logical outcome of the policies they’re proposing and the words they say and the hate they foment. we call it a genocidal agenda NOW because by the time it actually becomes a genocide it’ll be TOO FUCKING LATE
A coalition of 185 social justice and religious groups published an open letter Monday expressing support for the campus protest encampments sweeping the country in opposition to Israel’s siege of Gaza, and calling on university administrators to end the brutal crackdowns of the student-led demonstrations.
“We commend the students who are exercising their right to protest peacefully despite an overwhelming atmosphere of pressure, intimidation and retaliation, to raise awareness about Israel’s assault on Gaza — with U.S. weapons and funding,” the letter states. “These students have come forth with clear demands that their universities divest from corporations profiting from Israeli occupation, and demanding safe environments for Palestinians across their campuses. ”
Groups that signed the letter include Gen-Z for Change, Working Families Party, IfNotNow Movement, Young Democrats of America Black Caucus, Movement for Black Lives, Sunrise Movement, MPower Change, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Legal, and the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Some 900 students have been arrested during anti-war encampments and demonstrations at American universities in the last 10 days, per a tally from Al Jazeera — a tumultuous period that mirrors volatile demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when police arrested at least 700 students.
The open letter Monday represents one of the largest shows of support among progressive groups for the burgeoning student protests, and makes clear the divide between establishment Democratic figures and social justice groups when it comes to U.S. support for Israel. President Joe Biden has refused so far to condition the sale of weapons to Israel.
“Our communities have been horrified to see the militarized and violent response to students protesting an ongoing genocide funded and supported by our government, and our coalition of organizations join millions of our members across the country in standing in solidarity with the students’ efforts in support of the people of Gaza,” Yasmine Taeb, one of the main organizers of the letter, told HuffPost. Taeb is a human rights lawyer and political director at MPower Change, a Muslim social justice group.
“Instead of attacking young people mobilizing for Palestinian human rights, President Biden needs to listen to the majority of Americans who have been calling on him to stop funding and supporting the atrocities committed against the people of Gaza,” Taeb said.
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Israel has killed over 33,000 Palestinians since Oct. 7, when the Gaza-based militant group Hamas launched an attack in which nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed. In January, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s siege of Gaza — which has displaced 85% of the population and put the occupied territory on the cusp of famine — left Palestinians at risk of experiencing a genocide. Last week, health officials in Gaza said medics had discovered mass graves at hospitals raided by Israeli troops.
“We join [the students] in calling for an immediate and lasting ceasefire and an end to the U.S. government’s and institutions’ role in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,” Monday’s letter states.
“As we stand in solidarity with the students protesting in encampments across the country, we reaffirm our commitment to amplifying their voices, condemn the university administration officials’ violent response to their activism, and demand that universities remove the presence of police and other militarized forces from their campuses,” it continues.
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Meanwhile, Republican Party officials and right-wing media figures have accused the demonstrations of antisemitism, falsely equating criticism of Israel with bigotry towards Jews. Although there have been scattered reports of actual antisemitic incidents at or near the encampments, many were not perpetrated by students but by interlopers. Many of the student protesters across the country are Jewish.
Far-right agitators, including Christian nationalist activists, have also targeted the encampments, with MAGA pastor Sean Feucht leading hundreds of Christian and Jewish Zionists on a march around the Columbia campus on Thursday. The rally ended with pro-Israel demonstrators yelling through the gate at pro-Palestinian Columbia students. “Go back to Gaza!” they screamed.
More than 185 groups, including IfNotNow, Jewish Voice For Peace, MPower Change, and Working Families Party, signed a letter in support of the campus protests against Israel Apartheid State's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.
Amy Schumer: “Well, I don’t support the genocide *anymore* so things are chill now? We all know Bibi is evil and to blame for everything, right? Right?”
Her attitude towards the war crimes conveniently softened as soon as she learned her career might be in danger and she was alienating the younger crowd.
you gen z idiots wouldn’t GET it. yes we handed you a fucked up climate that’s only getting worse, yes Joe Biden is personally responsible for making it worse, yes you watch homeless people including ur friends and family dying on street corners during these heat waves that will only get worse, yes you get to experience a recession and two major pandemics, yes you pay twice as much just to rent buildings that have not been worked on since they were built 40 years ago in the 80’s, yes you get to watch people like you get brutally killed every day, yes you see fucked up gore of literal children and babies and innocent men and women on your social medias everyday because of the constant state of warfare that’s become several genocides all at once, yes we handed you a country built on the backs of slaves both from 400 years ago and today right now, yes literally all of your products from the toys you play with to the produce you eat are made by child labor or slave labor from the global south or imported immigrants or imprisoned people and it’s all polluting the beautiful earth, but think of my DEBT and my mortgage payments! DEMOCRACY MANIFEST! MANIFEST DESTINY FOREVER
people on Instagram have turned the "all eyes on rafah" stories into "all eyes on hindus in pakistan" and it's giving the same energy as men saying "what about male victims??" when the discussion is literally about the high percentage of female victims.
you canNOT solve a major issue by bringing in another one at the original discussion.
Gen Z is a generation that was told that “it doesn’t matter how many of you get shot down and murdered in your schools. We will always prioritize our greed over your lives”
We’ve grown up, seen how little our government cares for human lives, and now are witnessing them fund a literal genocide.
We’ve taken over the streets, social media, college campuses, celebrity events, etc. And we will keep standing up because human beings deserve to live. Gaza deserves to live. Palestinians deserve to live.
"Anne Frank and Hitler were the main characters of the Holocaust"
Okay so I get this is an anecdotal video, it's one classroom, a handful of questions and comments. However I've heard/seen really ignorant things about the Holocaust particularly from younger people in college and High School rn.
Idk if I have a point just to ask GenZ do you know about the Holocaust? if so what? and like whats some of the craziest shit people have heard lately from Holocaust ignorance?
Call it PRO -PALESTINE, PRO- LIFE OR ANTI WAR PROTESTS ,this my friend's is the era of the unstoppable Generation of resistance, #genz Just globalised the Intifada.Bidens and Netanyahu worse nightmare just went on overdrive.
It's always the same. The status quo commits a major atrocity against an oppressed people. People peacefully stand up in solidarity against the atrocity and those behind it. The people in power behind the atrocity try to silence those peacefully standing up to that power. Those standing up to power are smeared as oppressors even though they are the ones being oppressed. Those that are oppressed naturally fight back in true self defense. Next thing you know, those in power use that as an excuse to massacre the oppressed because "national security" or whatever. Others are outraged at this atrocity and stand up to those behind it. Rinse and repeat.