(05-03-2024, 05:03 PM)Blaine91555 Wrote: @Notran
In case it got past you, this topic is about Columbia University. The groups involved are small and the NYPD pointed out today that the phony protests are funded and orchestrated by outside forces. The students are just joining in the cause du jour.
Calling for the elimination of Israel is not a peace movement nor even remotely like the Peace Movement in the 60s-70s.
Do you personally agree with Hamas and its goals? Eliminate Israel and then the entire Western World if they don't join radical Islam?
Hi Blaine,
I don't agree with Hamas at all when they kill civilians just as I don't agree with IDF when they do exactly the same to civilians citing the danger by Hamas. Both have commited hideous crimes.
The students are part of the anti-war movement which includes many who aren't students. I understand it's a usual tactic to name them anarchists and communists but it always happened in the history of the anti-war movement. What students want is the end of the war.
(05-03-2024, 06:19 PM)DBCowboy Wrote: My stepfather served early on in Vietnam, I joined the service right after the war.
I take service seriously. It is duty, honor, country.
You have a right to mock, disparage veterans all you want, I will just not engage. The site is too new for me to get booted.
If you can point out to me where in my posts I have mocked and disparaged veterans.
Just as millions of others I disagree with the war in Vietnam which was an absolute disaster with over 58,000 deaths and many more wounded. The US has no business in Vietnam and the students at that time fought a lot with against the deep State who sent Americans to kill Vietnamese for no reason and be killed by them. Millions of Vietnamese died for no reason.
I think you need to start appreciating the anti war movement.
(05-03-2024, 04:33 PM)putnam6 Wrote: Thats the point it shows how these protests are roundly despised on campus, it's why the protests are rarely more than 1 to 2% of the university's student body population.
The vast majority don't give a damn one way or the other, they are too wrapped up in thier own lives. REALITY
You don't know what the vast majority wants. Not everyone attends protests but if you were to ask students what do they think of the war in Gaza what do you think the answer will be? I am quite confident about the responses and can say the overwhelming majority will be against the war. Saying students don't care derives from nowhere, it's simply false.
