• djsoren19@yiffit.net
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    5 months ago

    So why was it socially unacceptable this time, but not when students were protesting South African Apartheid? Or Climate change? Or any number of the other divestments that have been successful without us even ever hearing about it?

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      5 months ago

      “Because the Palestinians aren’t worth saving” - what other message are we to take away from this decision by Harvard?

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      5 months ago

      I know it seems weird to think about this now, but back when Mandela was being released, the conservative establishment was calling him a terrorist and insisting that we still needed to support the apartheid government In South Africa against terrorist communists like Mandela.

      Reagan and Thatcher were both quite explicit about it.

      So this really is nothing new. The Right is always going to back the powerful against the powerless, and will always come down hard on any person or group that challenges the “natural order”.