Dan GillmorMay 17, 2024

Such moral cowards running New York University -- ordering student protestors to write phony apologies.

This is right out of the authoritarian playbook -- and it craps on every notion of freedom of expression.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/nyregion/nyu-protests-apology-letters.html

You don't have to agree with the protestors' politics. But you should damn well understand that America is in wave of McCarthyism right now.

Why Is N.Y.U. Forcing Protesters to Write Apology Letters?

The university calls it a “restorative practice”; the students call it a coerced confession.

The New York Times
Show threadToot Ωncommon - SHUT 🇺🇸 DOWNMay 17, 2024
@dangillmor I’d have more sympathy if they had justly advocated for freedom of the Palestinian people instead of shilling for an internationally recognized terrorist organization, lovingly branding these equal oppressors of Gazans as the “Resistance” and whitewashing their genocidal slogans calling for the eradication all non-Muslims from Palestine. Too bad their fancy degrees didn’t teach them that there are more than 2 sides of this story and Tiktok isnt the best place to learn foreign affairs
Show threadHelgi CrookehorneMay 17, 2024
@opethminded @dangillmor just a year ago Hamas cheered for Syrian islamist rebels who are also considered resistance by Erdogan, but for Iran only Hamas would be resistance, and Syrian islamists would be "terrorists". And if Hamas or Syrian islamists are asked about ISIS, Iraqi islamists, they say the same as Iran, that ISIS are "terrorists", because brands of alqaeda islamists sometimes hate each other
Show threadToot Ωncommon - SHUT 🇺🇸 DOWNMay 17, 2024
@Helgi @dangillmor Iran is the true enemy of peace across the Middle East. More need to focus on that.
Show threadHelgi Crookehorne
@opethminded @dangillmor I even wonder if any peace is possible. When I look into that Lebanese civil war. The stories kinda "the pro-Assad faction of the PLO massacred women and kids in Damour" then later "Assad troops massacred the PLO". Nobody still can't explain why Assad massacred his own supporters for the sake of "fascist LF"
May 18, 2024 at 12:58amWeb