Cornell University building vandalized by pro-Palestine activists on first day of semester...

[digsub]

UNACCEPTABLE.

https://cornellsun.com/2024/08/26/exclusive-pro-palestine-activists-vandalize-day-hall-on-first-day-of-school-and-tell-the-sun-why/

[Walleye]

1. Immature people. Do they think this is the way to solve the Middle East problem that has plagued every administration?

[Happy Hoosier]

2. Immature my a$$....

... these folks know exactly what they are doing. Arrest them. Expel them. And if they are here on Visa, deport them.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes they know exactly what they are doing and it has nothing to do with Gaza.

[Happy Hoosier]

4. Precisely. NT

[Walleye]

15. That's kind of what I wanted to say I guess. Trying to be diplomatic

[jimfields33]

5. It's going to be a long year! Already starting day ONE!!

[yardwork]

6. They sound like MAGATs

From the article:

In a statement to The Sun, the activists behind the graffiti said, “We had to accept that the only way to make ourselves heard is by targeting the only thing the university administration truly cares about: property.”

Bullshit. You broke windows, threw paint around, and wrote hateful things because you wanted to. It felt good to go on a rampage and blame other people for "making you" do it. Just like the J6 assholes.

“With the start of this new academic year, the Cornell administration is trying desperately to upkeep a facade of normalcy knowing that, since last semester, they have been working tirelessly to uphold Cornell’s function as a fascist, classist, imperial machine,” the activists, who asked to remain anonymous, wrote.

Then have the courage of your convictions and drop out or transfer. You're happy to let mommy and daddy pay tuition so you can collect your Ivy League degree, but while you're there you're going to pitch fits and act like a two year old?

And you expect people to listen to you?

[SocialDemocrat61]

7. The curse of the morally righteous

People who believe that they are morally right on an issue will rationalize their actions. It doesn't matter how wrong something they do is because they are fighting for the greater good. And who defines the greater good, they do. There is no room for discussion because they are on the side of right and those who disagree are evil. This is true of those on the right such as Christian evangelicals who will vote for someone like Trump as well as those on the left who claim to be against war but have no problem turning to violence.

[yardwork]

8. Just like the J6ers

[stopdiggin]

10. zealots and extremism are ever a danger

along with tropes such as, "the end justifies .. " and "by whatever means necessary"
And you're quite right in saying that this applies to all species of fringe thought married to 'activism'.

[Fozzledick]

9. How long before they start throwing professors out of windows?

We've seen this movie before and we know how it ends.

[oasis]

11. The don't need sympathy for their "cause", they

need individual therapy to find out what’s really going on in their heads.

[Sympthsical]

12. They're telling us who they are

The activists also expressed their disillusionment with “debates and peaceful protests,” saying that “these on their own will never be enough to achieve the change we demand.”

They'll be chill with violence.

If I were a Jewish student, I wouldn't go within a mile of these places until expulsions start. Expulsion is the only consequence that will matter. Children don't grow up when they're endlessly coddled.

But it's a sticky wicket. How do you expel students when some of their professors are telling them this behavior is ok?

Academia needs an enema. Scholarship has taken a back seat to aCtIvIsM, y0u gUyz! And then they go hound a Jew somewhere.

[sarisataka]

13. Ah back to school,

buying pens, pencils, notebooks, spray paint, hammers....

[The Magistrate]

14. 'Hamas Fans Wreck Campus Building'

A good headline has to be right, catch the essence of the thing....

[Efilroft Sul]

16. I call them "Hamasholes". But you have the right of it.

[Demsrule86]

17. Arrest them...restitution and jail time.

[MichMan]

18. What did they expect after not holding them accountable before ?

That they would just stop, or would they feel emboldened to keep doing it?

[Beastly Boy]

19. This reminds me of my dog pissing on every tree to mark his turf.

He thinks he is doing the most important thing in the world.

[Jacson6]

20. I'm sure Biden is going to stop providing aid to Israel and stop peace talks...

because some naive people vandalized a building. NOT!