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Re: Columbia University has a doxxing problem

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If you participate in a public event you can’t really expect to keep that activity secret. (One could also argue that the fact you want to indicates you feel there is something wrong about your actions) I wouldn’t really say this is doxing, since that usually refers to revealing a private online identity.

This is an inane argument. If one were to, for example, attend a public protest of Scientology, one might rightly fear for one's safety and be entirely convinced that one is in the right, regardless.

Might, or fear thereof, does not make right.

Re: Columbia University has a doxxing problem

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I haven't seen a shred of evidence that these protestors are violent, or that they harass members of campuses, as they are said to do. The unbelievably harsh response from the universities and the state, which included forced dispersion by the police, roof snipers at Indiana University, and threats to call in the national guard by the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at Columbia, has led me to feel incredibly depres…

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Re: Columbia University has a doxxing problem

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I haven't seen a shred of evidence that these protestors are violent, or that they harass members of campuses, as they are said to do. The unbelievably harsh response from the universities and the state, which included forced dispersion by the police, roof snipers at Indiana University, and threats to call in the national guard by the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at Columbia, has led me to feel incredibly depres…

Are you familiar with the 1960s? Somehow we survived that without “liberalism dying”.

that's a pretty terrible example considering the COINTELPRO program with the FBI sending letters to MLK trying to get him to kill himself and assassinating people.

Re: Columbia University has a doxxing problem

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post #7

I haven't seen a shred of evidence that these protestors are violent, or that they harass members of campuses, as they are said to do. The unbelievably harsh response from the universities and the state, which included forced dispersion by the police, roof snipers at Indiana University, and threats to call in the national guard by the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at Columbia, has led me to feel incredibly depres…

Are you familiar with the 1960s? Somehow we survived that without “liberalism dying”.

This is a false equivalence. Student protesters were far more radical in their actions before force was invoked at that time.

Re: Columbia University has a doxxing problem

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The doxxing campaign is deplorable and unacceptable on its own terms, of course. However the article mischaracterizes the nature at least of the petitions that some of the students signed, making it out to be more harmless and innocuous than it actually was: Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine published an open letter on Monday demanding the University to “start verbally acknowledging Palestinian existence and…

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Re: Columbia University has a doxxing problem

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post #7

I haven't seen a shred of evidence that these protestors are violent, or that they harass members of campuses, as they are said to do. The unbelievably harsh response from the universities and the state, which included forced dispersion by the police, roof snipers at Indiana University, and threats to call in the national guard by the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at Columbia, has led me to feel incredibly depres…

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That was a hoax, she was brushed by a flag while someone walked past. The fact that you are even using that as evidence shows how weak the case you can make is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1nXTlNpNkI

Re: Columbia University has a doxxing problem

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> The student, who did not wish to be identified for fairly obvious reasons, said her name was listed on the truck because a club she was no longer a part of had signed onto an open letter urging Columbia to cut ties with Israel.

So she signed an open letter, but didn't want her name to be attached to it?

Isn't that the whole point of an open letter?

And then she has the opportunity to speak with the press, and asks not to be identified while saying she no longer wants to be associated with the letter?

I don't know what's going on with these kids.

Re: Columbia University has a doxxing problem

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post #7

I haven't seen a shred of evidence that these protestors are violent, or that they harass members of campuses, as they are said to do. The unbelievably harsh response from the universities and the state, which included forced dispersion by the police, roof snipers at Indiana University, and threats to call in the national guard by the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at Columbia, has led me to feel incredibly depres…

I haven't seen a shred of evidence that these protestors are violent, or that they harass members of campuses, as they are said to do.

Then you need start reading from more diverse sources.

Just in the past week, for example - there's Khymani James, still currently front and center within the protest movement at Columbia, who was recorded earlier in the year saying "Zionists don't deserve to live" and "You shouldn't be surprised to see me murdering Zionists":

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/nyregion/columbia-student...

And the assault on Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad by an identified member of the local activist community:

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-797910

In general the right wing vastly overexaggerates the violent aspects of the protest movement. But beyond question it has its share of assholes.

Re: Columbia University has a doxxing problem

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post #7

I haven't seen a shred of evidence that these protestors are violent, or that they harass members of campuses, as they are said to do. The unbelievably harsh response from the universities and the state, which included forced dispersion by the police, roof snipers at Indiana University, and threats to call in the national guard by the Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at Columbia, has led me to feel incredibly depres…

I haven't seen a shred of evidence that these protestors are violent, or that they harass members of campuses, as they are said to do. Then you need start reading from more diverse sources. Just in the past week, for example - there's Khymani James, still currently front and center within the protest movement at Columbia, who was recorded earlier in the year saying "Zionists don't deserve to live" and "You shouldn't…

and some (all?) of these assholes are agent provocateurs, just like in the 60s, which a previous poster alluded to.
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