Most of the campus protests were non-violent, why did the cops come in?
Maybe if you need to arrest the troublemakers but anything else is not cool man.
If the school requests they disband or vacate, and the students fail to comply, they can be charged with trespassing. I’m not defending the actions of the college or the police. I’m just stating that the school defines acceptable conduct on its grounds. Even state schools have conduct policies.
Also, the President does not control the police. They report to the mayor. If the President dispatched the National Guard, like Trump did to the protesters in Portland and DC, then you could blame Biden.
The Biden administration may not be directly responsible, but just like Trump, his endorsement of racism and fascism emboldens the racists and fascists to act more openly.
That’s true for racism in regard to Palestinians. They both support Israel. What Trump did by having protesters shot with rubber bullets by the National Guard in DC and driving tanks through Portland was certainly fascist. How has Biden been fascist to protesters?
I never said Biden was a fascist, though I am saying that now. Biden is a corporo-fascist, just like nearly every US politician.
What I said was that he endorses fascism, i.e. a fascist state, i.e. Israel.
So you’re saying the police were dispatched because Israel is corporo-fascist, and Biden supports Israel, therefore Biden supports fascism, and that empowers the local police.
Reaching like that, you should stretch before you pull something.
Yeah, that’s the Association fallacy
By definition a liberal is not a fascist.
You don’t even know what you are talking about.
Biden is a fascist in liberal face
But he isn’t. You just think he is because you think everyone that disagrees with you is a fascist.
Get out of here with your ‘reason’ and ‘facts’!
It’s really insane that the police get called on US citizens peacefully protesting against a genocide in a foreign country.
He said. Shortly after, Biden sat down at his desk and approved another sale of $10 billion worth of arms to Israel.
“Student voices should be heard. I mean, I’m not going to do anything different, but pretending to care is a core value of the Democratic Party.”
“Their voices should be heard. I’m not going to listen to them, or do anything about what they’re saying, but they should be heard”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Joe Biden called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and voiced his support for student protesters as he delivered the commencement address at one of the nation’s oldest historically Black colleges, Morehouse.
Mr Biden spent much of the address speaking about the conflict in the Middle East – while also trying to connect with Black voters ahead of the 2024 election – decrying the “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza and saying that the voices of protesters“should be heard”.
Some graduates and faculty instead told local media outlets that they opposed the college’s dean bestowing an honorary degree on the president as the fighting continues in Gaza with US support.
Speaking before Mr Biden, valedictorian DeAngelo “DJ” Fletcher urged leaders to seek “an immediate and permanent cease-fire in the Gaza Strip” and for the return of hostages held by Hamas.
Pointing to his predecessor’s allegedly criminal attempts to cling to power and the January 6 Capitol riot, he linked it directly to the anger perpetuated by white supremacists on the far right.
His evidence for this link were the racist chants endured by Capitol police officers on January 6 2021, many of whom reported and recorded video on their bodycams of rioters screaming racial slurs.
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Oh, someone that has the power and means to change things should really listen to them, Joe. Right? I wonder who that might be.
Also, didn’t he just send one more billion worth of weapons to the ethnostate?
Heard by whom, Joe?
Biden: pro-Gaza protesters should be heard!
NüPrOgrEsSiVes: Shut up, fascist!!
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‘voices should be heard, just not by me’
Dude when they are actually being silenced though ??? Fuck dude can we appreciate having a president that at least fucking pretends to respect different opinions?
Don’t stop being critical and always push for better. But damn please do not forget the drastic difference between this peaceful rhetoric vs having your president declare citizens unpatriotic or an enemy, liars, or whatever for disagreeing with him.
But damn please do not forget the drastic difference between this peaceful rhetoric vs having your president declare citizens unpatriotic or an enemy, liars, or whatever for disagreeing with him.
Biden’s supporters on lemmy are doing their best to compensate for this particular oversight on his part.
Joe “The Muppet” Biden what??
And blocked! This is easy.
Good luck building your Lemmy echo chamber ✌️✌️
They do it everywhere they go, it allows them to live in a fantasy world. Otherwise they would see they also support right wing fascists
