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Ms. Toad

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24. Have you started any?

Sun Jan 25, 2026, 09:58 PM

Jan 25

Have you spent any significant time on college campuses to see what life is like there now that not only Federal but State governments are prohibiting free speech - and punishing both students and faculty for speaking out? Every semester evaluation now includes a mandatory question about whether the instructor is nice enough to the poor little right wing babies. Not worded that way explicitly, but it is the result of laws which require they not be offended. Trans individuals are forced to tolerate being referred to by their gender assigned at birth, and the name given by their parents. Dumping this on their shoulders, simply because some of them saw fit to protest mass slaughter of Palestinians (which, FYI, is not happening here yet) under a different administration (which didn't slash funding, sue protesters, and deport individuals here lawfully simply for exercising their first amendment rights) is pretty rude, unless you are on campus organizing the protests you complain are non-existent.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] PeaceWave Jan 25 OP

Or Iran? Or Somalia? Or Yemen? Arazi Jan 25 #1

The selective outrage is quite revealing Danmel Jan 25 #4

I was upset about Saudi Arabia's genocide of Shia in Yemen AZProgressive Jan 25 #12

I will never get tired of people getting mad about this honestly. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 25 #2

Oh FFS n/t leftstreet Jan 25 #3

+1 ret5hd Jan 25 #13

Were there "events" happening in Gaza?? AloeVera Jan 25 #5

In fairness, that was a different time. Until Oct 7 2023, we had peace and sanity. We've been in nonstop chaos ecstatic Jan 25 #6

I think they were/are present at No Kings. LuvLoogie Jan 25 #7

What conclusions do you draw from all this? Torchlight Jan 25 #8

There was a lot of selective outrage during Biden's term. Whyisthisstillclose Jan 25 #9

I suspect those Gaza protests were funded IbogaProject Jan 25 #10

You sound like the right wing claiming the Minneapolis protestors are paid. iemanja Jan 25 #18

Here in NYC there was definitately suspicious financial support IbogaProject Jan 26 #31

Protests did not evaporate iemanja Jan 26 #32

I think the same people that would be upset about a genocide AZProgressive Jan 25 #11

A very effective RW op as proven by the lack of outrage since 12026. BlueNProud Jan 25 #14

I would think that the largest protests currently are outside campus's, so they are joining the larger ones. Eko Jan 25 #15

Combination of factors fujiyamasan Jan 25 #16

They "quieted down" after thousands were arrested, beaten, jailed and the camps brutally cleared. Under Biden. AloeVera Jan 25 #22

Where do you think the protests at the Graduate Hotel are? iemanja Jan 25 #17

Dark $ funding for instant moral Fight the Power group identity activities OK if against Democrats. betsuni Jan 25 #19

College Kids Care More About Palestine Deep State Witch Jan 25 #20

You obviously did no homework iemanja Jan 25 #21

Shhhh..... It doesn't fit the narrative.. nt AloeVera Jan 25 #23

I doubt anyone of these people here saying there's no more Palestine protestors don't even go to protest SunImp Jan 25 #28

Have you started any? Ms. Toad Jan 25 #24

It isn't 'spring' yet... in fact it's pretty goddamned dangerously COLD right now... Jack Valentino Jan 25 #25

There are protests SocialDemocrat61 Jan 25 #26

There were protests last week at many colleges!! Just no media reporting Pisces Jan 25 #27

Uninformed clickbait -eom vanessa_ca Jan 25 #29

Good question. nt mcar Jan 25 #30