How illiberal and hateful (but I repeat myself) can Leftist students get?
Inside, the anti-Israel students also voted to support a boycott of the U.S., among other countries, through a second Resolution calling for divestment from American, Mexican, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Brazilian, Sri Lankan, and Egyptian government bonds.
As to the U.S., the grounds for divestment were:
WHEREAS, The government of the United States of America is engaged in drone strikes that have killed over 2,400 people in Pakistan and Yemen, many of them civilians. The government oversees, by far, the highest rate of imprisonment in the world, and racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement agencies, particularly for drug related offences. 400,000 undocumented immigrants are held in detention centers every year, and millions have been
deported since the current Administration took office, and the government is directly supporting and propping up numerous dictatorships around the world with weapons sales and foreign aid.WHEREAS, The University of California conducts research and accepts funding from the United States Department of Defense and the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), institutions actively involved in the United States’ military actions worldwide, on its Los Angeles, Berkeley, Irvine, Davis, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Diego, San Francisco, and Merced campuses, thereby furthering and enabling military agendas?
The Resolution demands:
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the Board of Directors of the University of California Student Association calls upon the University of California to withdraw investments in securities, endowments, mutual funds, and other monetary instruments with holdings in the aforementioned governments, at such time and in such manner as fund trustees may determine? and that the University of California maintain the withdrawal of investments, in accordance with trustees’ fiduciary duty, until these governments are no longer engaged in the violation of human rights and other behavior that fail to adhere to the University of California endorsed Principles of Responsible Investment?
THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Board of Directors of the University of California Student
Association determines if it is found that UC funds are being invested in any of the above mentioned governments, the University of California Student Association calls upon the University of California to divest all stocks and securities of such governments, at such time and in such manner as fund trustee may determine, and maintain divestment from said governments, in accordance with the fund trustees’ fiduciary duty, until they meet the University of California endorsed Principles of Responsible Investment?
Whereby, I move that California taxpayers divest themselves from the University of California system and petition the Federal government do the same on behalf of American taxpayers.
Good flippin’ lord, it’s obvious some kids were never spanked!
I realize I went to a state university in “flyover” country, but jeez louise on a mountain bike, I was not that stupid.
If Hell exists, I sincerly hope Dr. Spock is roasting there.
The nazis “siezed” the young people as a national resource, gave them to the fuhrer as a birthday gift and made adults afraid to interfere by encouraging the youth to turn their parents in as traitors.
Today is much the same only they use lawyers and unofficial black lists and social media stalking instead of pistols to spread the fear. And these soft nazis piss their pants anytime someone rolls back one of their little frog boiler victories. If it weren’t for cowards and paid off patsies it would have been rolled back long ago. Instead the cruel 8%’s power over the vapid barely educated 20% who see politics as a team sport driven by fads, has been leveraged into a sloppy protean coalition of 40% by a PR press. The opposing 40% is chipped away to 34% by a mixture of pavlovian stupidity or frustrated ennui. The remaining 20% is trying to get lair or borrow money or making youtube videos about how to make glow in the dark snacks. The soft nazu power grows harder but more brittle with each ridiculous new “wave” of top down infantilizing “progress”. And unfortunately tyrannies grow crueler as they fail because it is better for the glorious utopian collectivist fantasy to eat its own (very real, human, individual) legs than to starve, or so the (imaginary idealized collective) stomach claims. Better the dreamer die than wake up from the dream. Are eggs permitted to wake up from the dream of the omelette? Nature is a traitor, let it starve in a work camp with the bosses and the fatcats.
We are not so different from out ancestors. We heard the same theme they did and did not recognize it for it was slowed down from a March to a Waltz. But at the end of the night we had seen our feet dressed in loafers and pumps, placed in the same depressions where our forefathers boots once stood. And having come so far already, will we stop and go no further? Or will we keep waiting for a voice to cry out and confirm the dreadful truth seen and nervously dismissed and ignored by our well distracted and entertained eyes?
I assume these students are practicing what they preach, having divested THEMSELVES of all Federal subsidies being used for their “education” … or can we only wish they were not such hypocrites?
it takes a lot of courage to go to an American rapeversity and do this kind of protesting
the sad truth is that being raped by penises is the price all too many of these student activists pay for speaking their truth
take back the night
This is the Egypt our ClownEmperorDisaster is cold-shouldering. Whatta guy. And he’s our guy! Americans should be so proud of themselves. Especially when this is the
SyriaIran with which he allies the USA.I had the same reaction to this as I had to the group who “occupied” the U of Minn President’s office:
“Awwww. Aren’t they adorable?”
Look, they didn’t come for any Jews, they just came for some random folks in a deli.
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Palaeo: Are you on Twitter?
Not anymore Bob. I dropped out around the end of January. Clean for like almost ten days now.
I checked out your blog Bob. :)
You are clearly a better editor than I am a writer/blog-commenter-ranter guy
Don’t change.
shahada news
Dad Saw Text on Son’s Phone Reminding Him to Complete Islam Assignment. Then He Opened Up the Textbook…
These days, you don’t go to college to get raped by penises.
You go to college to get raped by tuition bills.
We have always been clear when we are lying through our teeth, said Jen Psaki to no one in particular.
Appearances are all that matter.
I don’t get it.