Columbia University has fallen

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Not thinking skills. "Critical thinking" skills.

The prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that we use for our critical thinking skills. It does not fully develop until we are around 25 years old, which is part of the reason young adults make so many bad decisions and are so easily manipulated. Even in the face of hard facts teens and young adults often make decisions that are not logical, reasonable or rational. Of course we are all in denial about that until we become mature adults.

What I said was tongue in cheek. "The more I read and watch about what's happening in universities like Columbia, the more I think we should test the water for nerve agents that target the prefrontal cortex. How did we produce so many children who are incapable of basic critical thinking skills. Sigh."

At college age none of us are yet fully capable of making difficult life decisions. We often make bad decisions based on emotional reactions. I did not literally mean we should check the water for nerve agents.

Edited to add...
What I said above is well known by evil men, like Hitler for instance and why he went after the youth to manipulate and literally brainwash them. They are easier to control. No intelligent adult believes that the Jews are evil just because they are Jews. Hitler knew his crap was lies, but using it he got what he wanted.

I don't agree young people don't have critical thinking skills because they don't support Israel
The same can be said about those who support Israel.
These are just empty statements.
Students side with the weak n oppressed.

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We are going over the same shit, Gaza was left to govern itself, it choose Hamas, and Hamas led to 10/7. 10/7, Hamas and the hostages are why Israel is in Gaza. When the hostages are returned and Hamas is no more Israel will leave Gaza.

Protests have fizzled here and on campuses, remember the crux of the thread.

As for their effectiveness, in actually stopping Israel's plan for Gaza or stopping the US from supplying Israel.

https://www.barrons.com/news/israel-says...s-4f522d3b

The students understand Gaza id not free but occupied. They are not stupid.

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- You can't call it peaceful coexistence because the Muslims keep committing terrorist acts.

- Israel hasn't ran/occupied Gaza since 2005.  That's almost 20 years.  And technically they didn't have to leave.  The land was theirs, won fairly when the Muslims attacked them and started a war that Israel won.  

- 'Many countries' recognize a 'Palestinian' state?  No.  You can't recognize a country that doesn't have borders.  There is no 'Palestine' country.  The Muslims refuse to accept the borders that the rest of the world has decided on.  They call for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jews.  They want all of Israel.  Therefore there are no borders for a 'Palestine' and therefore no one can truthfully recognize them because of that fact.

- The students are not reacting to what is going on in the Middle East in a thoughtful way.  They are just parroting the brainwashing that the woke activist teachers pummeled their brains with.  The useful idiot students go around chanting 'from the river to the sea' which is a genocidal call to war against Israel.  That's not peaceful protest.  Hamas, which they side with, would gladly cut off their heads and rape their dead bodies.  The students are morons.

Most countries recognise Palestine as a State.
I had the list but can't find it.
Not the point of the debate.
Students know well what's going on.

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I can accept that.  There has been a tug of war going on there for many years.  Give, take, cede, surrender... over and over...
plus a lot of old hatred between leaderships...

I just don't think making a case to chant for death is in any way an honorable solution.

Perhaps I'm just too old myself.

It's mostly misrepresented on the press.
Students don't usually chant these slogans
Majority behaves well.
The point stands. Students want Palestine to be free.