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Harvard students were punished by the university president for expressing unpopular opinions.
They STUDIED for an hour in a LIBRARY, with political messages taped to their laptops.
What if it had been only one student? What if the pro-Palestine message had been half as big? What if it had been half an hour?
There is no narrative worth the pixels it takes on a screen that makes this anything but direct, pure suppression of dissent. The students followed every rule, didn't do any of the things bullshit campus rules penalize in order to stop protests. They didn't block sidewalks, light candles, chant, march, or even (apparently) make anyone the least bit uncomfortable.
So the Harvard admin just flat-out punished them for expressing a political opinion.
#gaza #palestine #university #highered #uspol #protest #dissent #punishment #authoritarianism
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/3/students-suspended-library-palestine-protest/
I'm so fucking angry about this.
Behind the rest of the bullshit: LIBRARY STAFF became apparently-willing little minions of an anti- #freespeech president.
US #Universities are not laboratories of #democracy; they are authoritarian hierarchies. The president is the monarch and everyone else follows the orders or else.
That's my only explanation for why #LIBRARIANS became meek little fascist approval-seekers.
On further reflection, it seems like the students were punished based on calling their actions a "protest." If they had not labeled them as such, they would only have been 30 students studying in the library with similar messages taped to their laptops. IDK, but in the photos the signs only say "What if it happened here" - no mention of Gaza, Palestine, Israel, the IDF, etc.
If they hadn't called it a "protest," the Harvard admin would have had to start punishing students for increasingly stupid-sounding "rules" like "no political messages on laptops" or some shit, which would make the hypocrisy even more glaring.
But the students shouldn't have to do any of that because, you know, fucking first amendment.
Next time your most conservative relative rants about Liberal Universities, show them these stories and reassure them that fascism is alive and well on campus.
