• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    look in the media at what happened to Mahmoud Khalil, the violent crackdown on the pro-Palestine encampments, the unis deploying mini police states on campus by surveiling students who read or share books on Palestine, deporting students, canceling DEI, Kent State massacre, I could go on…

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        no you fucking can’t, Mahmoud was in the US on a student visa! he was kidnapped because Columbia university targeted him for his activism and collaborated with ICE!

        such a dipshit white thing to say.

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          Sorry, no, I’m on your side regarding the morality of all this stuff but that doesn’t make university a carceral institution.

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              You haven’t provided any pro arguments. “They collaborated with ICE” is not an argument that the purpose of the university system is to contain people against their will. It tells us the administrators are evil, sure. It tells us about the role of universities in enforcing the kind of discourse allowed in our society. But the jail that ICE takes people to is the carceral institution, not the university they take them from.