Aeon A. Araya 
Qasim Rashid, Esq.It’s cool how schools can’t punish pro-Nazi students because of the First Amendment but can mass arrest and suspend anti-war students because what First Amendment?🤔
Glenn Fleishman@QasimRashid Columbia made a terrible decision but they are a private institution. They have an ethical obligation and they betrayed that.
Voron@QasimRashid @glennf the only “ethical obligation” many private collages seem to have these days is to maximize how much money they can make
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ@glennf @QasimRashid They've been failing it for years https://nypost.com/2017/09/07/columbia-welcoming-alt-right-speakers-to-campus/
Arthur CopelandThe first story refers to a government school district that has to respect the first amendment.
The second story refers to Columbia University, a private institution that does not have the same restrictions.
Conflating them as “schools” is misleading your followers. And yeah, Columbia should sure as hell do better.
-> @haileys.quest
Torben@Torjas @QasimRashid The demonstrators were not arrested by a private institution (Columbia University). They were arrested by the New York City police for their actions on the Columbia campus. Trespassing, essentially, and shame on Columbia.
@ArthurCopeland4 @QasimRashid Columbia, a couple of years ago https://nypost.com/2017/09/07/columbia-welcoming-alt-right-speakers-to-campus/
(Until student protests against hate speech shut it down)
(Until student protests against hate speech shut it down)
@Mabande @QasimRashid
Yes, absolutely. This article and the second article about Columbia are a much better example of the problem. No conflating, no misleading!
Columbia (and almost all Universities) need to figure out what their free speech policies are and then stick to them when the donors and political theatre idiots come for them.
They usually fail spectacularly. The bureaucrats actually have my sympathy on this one, usually multiple trustees with different agendas.
Just wanted to give you both credit for the update. Much appreciated.
David Mitchell 
Why is this prom photo only young men?
Bandersnatch@QasimRashid Absolute bullshit.
David H. McCoyWonder what’s different between the two?
lola lou@QasimRashid US senators call on Biden to sanction Sudan’s RSF over human rights abuses https://1-e8259.azureedge.net/news/2024/4/20/us-senators-call-on-biden-to-sanction-sudans-rsf-over-human-rights-abuses
Mike Waghorne@QasimRashid Equality under law. Maybe this will exist in the US someday. It sure does not right now.
David P(Not) Fun fact, Germany punishes both.
Helgi Crookehorne@QasimRashid school district must be the state, and Columbia University is some private company so the 1st can't apply here. Private companies can cancel whoever they want. And imagine that's some private company that's been overrun by islamists, who wanna force women wear ninja suits and do FGM...
Magnus Ahltorp@Helgi @QasimRashid Do private companies have the right to arrest people in the US? Your comment suggests it does.
@ahltorp @QasimRashid the university suspended some Ilhan Omar's daughter, this part is legit and it never looked like "the government made a law". And some TwiXer is ever worse, also a private company. Can ban any Palestine supporter for "platform manipulation" or even worse, ghost ban people for some days for non-transparent reasons.
si_iriniWhat kind of twisted logic is that?
So that wouldn't be possible here in Germany
This Nazi salute is forbidden and can be prosecuted
And people are constantly demonstrating against wars, that is normal
It doesn’t matter if something is a private institution or not
ChrisDourisUnfortunately, schools do not care. When the neo nazi party in Greece rose, some guys in my school started speaking German and harassing minorities.
The school principal who was left-leaning refused to do anything until that group of people was thinking to do the nazi salute in the national parade. What he did was beg them to not do it. The harassment did not stop and the principal didn't care ever again.
@QasimRashid The first photo was taken at Baraboo School District, a public school. As a public institution, they are required by the First Amendment to tolerate even the most despicable behavior.
The second photo was taken at Colombia University, a private institution. They are not bound by the First Amendment and are not required to tolerate behavior they do not approve of.
Private institution means private property. Would you tolerate a protest in your living room?
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@QasimRashid America is such a blatant lie 😞
enoch_exe_inc@QasimRashid This is what antifascists mean when we say liberals (and liberalism) will tend to side with fascists.
Sean Boyer 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE@QasimRashid
The schools administrations have been captured by the same corporate interests as the rest of the world. They do not operate in the best interests of society or the students. They operate to make money for capitalists and to promulgate propaganda.
The schools administrations have been captured by the same corporate interests as the rest of the world. They do not operate in the best interests of society or the students. They operate to make money for capitalists and to promulgate propaganda.
France Shiba 
🏳️⚧️@QasimRashid Pure fascism.
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️@QasimRashid
And this of course will be used as a precedent to let students speak their mind on Palestinian rights. #OfCourseNot
And this of course will be used as a precedent to let students speak their mind on Palestinian rights. #OfCourseNot
refraction 
@QasimRashid it's almost like Nazis are accepted and being anti-war is not. but surely in a peace-loving, definitely not white supremacists country like the US that couldn't be true
miki@QasimRashid This stems from the fact that English confuses between "student" as in somebody in the mandatory government-funded school system, and "student" as in a student of an institution of higher education. Some other languages don't do this, and that would make this issue a lot clearer.
In the US, most colleges are private and the first amendment doesn't apply to them, if this wasn't the case, social media companies wouldn't be able to ban nazis.
Orc@QasimRashid I don't think you're being fair to Baraboo here -- Baraboo is in rural (== fascist) Wisconsin so the school district is just doing what everybody else there does, while Columbia (allegedly a world class university) is doing fascism as a lark.
There's not really any comparison, because fucking CU is doing what (virtually; NYPD is fash from top to bottom as are all other police forces) nobody in their community wants them to do.