Megha Vemuri called out MIT for having research ties with the Israeli army and "aiding and abetting" the country with its "assault on the Palestinian people."
    • nimisnimi@lemmy.ca
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      30 days ago

      Wow, that’s a lot of hatred against a country and a nation. “Genoside” claims, several times. Still no mentions of how this yet another war started on the 7th of October. 🤦

      • Zenith@lemm.ee
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        30 days ago

        No one is upset that Israel wanted to do something about being attacked, but what’s happening is so wildly disproportionate. If hamas did that in any other country and that country decided to go full scorched earth in retaliation no one would support that yet somehow a single attack justifies what’s going on now?? If someone eggs your house do you hunt them down, burn down their house, kill them then do the same to all their relatives?? No obvious that’s insane and that’s essentially what’s happening here, the attack was wrong but two wrongs do not make a right and the force of the response is so far above uncalled for

  • FreeWilliam@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    “You showed the world that MIT wants a free Palestine”.

    “You called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and you stood in solidarity with the pro-Palestine activists on campus. You faced threats, intimidation, and suppression coming from all directions, especially your own university officials, but you prevailed because the MIT community that I know would never tolerate a genocide."

    “Right now, while we prepare to graduate and move forward with our lives, there are no universities left in Gaza…We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it.”

    “This means that Israel’s assault on the Palestinian people is not only aided and abetted by our country, but our school. As scientists, engineers, academics, and leaders, we have a commitment to support life, support aid efforts, and call for an arms embargo, and keep demanding, now as alumni, that MIT cuts the ties,"

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    make a list of all these fascists. people must not forget those who stood firmly on the side of genocide.

    • nimisnimi@lemmy.ca
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      29 days ago
      make a list of all these fascists.

      Is that your next suggestion, omg: “Let them wear special distinguishing marks on their clothes too. Like, some kind of a star sign”?!

      /S

      That’s seriously creepy, dude.

      • pyre@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        fucking yes. if you allow fascists and collaborators to just dust off their hands and pretend nothing happened once the regime comes down, you’re just setting the timer back until the next fascist regime.

        they’re collaborating with the regime now, and once it’s gone, they will all have always opposed it.

        no. you have to remember all of them. no quarter for fascists. no excuse for collaborators.

  • Zenith@lemm.ee
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    30 days ago

    Couldn’t have been worse than the cringefest speech Hank Green gave that’s for sure

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    30 days ago

    First they ignore you,

    then they laugh at you,

    then they fight you, <-- you are here

    then you win.

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Great that she spoke out but… Honey, where the fuck did you think you got accepted four years ago? MIT loves war.

    edit: horny beavers hot for big missiles!

    • diffusive@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Research needs money for happening. You need to pay researchers, structures, various staff. Even more so a fancy structure as MIT

      Israel (and American Zionists) have the power to cancel a sizeable amount of research contracts with MIT. (AIPAC shows how well organised they are, originally for defence from antisemitism, now for defence from… Palestine? I guess? 🤷‍♂️ )

      Then for MIT (that is a corporation like another) comes to damage control. On one hand PR, on the other money.

      MIT took the money, Stanford (in the case of DEI) took the PR.

      I am still 100% sure neither of the two can give a damn of Palestinians, Israel or DEI. It’s just MBA stuff 🤷‍♂️

      (I have my opinions on the situation in Palestine but I don’t want this post to be about that)

    • nimisnimi@lemmy.ca
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      30 days ago

      Calling other people (all the more, a nation as a whole) names - is not critical thinking.

      Presenting biased rhethorics (all the more, not in a neutral manner, but emotionally loaded claims) and ommitting any contradicting points - has nothing to do with critical thinking.

      Opinions vs facts. One-sided accusing vs rational thinking. 💁

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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        30 days ago

        Yeah no. Calling Nazis Nazi is a perfectly rational take. One does not to condemn an active genocide “in a neutral manner,” neither do Nazis deserve neutrality.

        • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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          29 days ago

          They’re just here trolling. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Israel’s finance minister said they intend to “entirely destroy” Gaza, and the English language has a word for “something you entirely destroy by fire”: it’s ‘holocaust’.

          So, I think we should trigger this guy more by using the term in the original, objective sense:

          This genocide, to which all current supporters of the Zionist state of Israel are party, is intentionally making a holocaust of Gaza.

  • Ad Blocker 117@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    You would think that a college would know that the Palestinian people are not Hamas and the Palestinians are the ones being genocided by Israel so that tRump can build a golf course. MIT certainly doesn’t have the brightest. Maybe the most cowardice.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      With so many schools having ties to Israeli backed donors I’m not surprised.( Apparently a political community on Lemmy doesn’t want you to use the j word)

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Would they ban the person if it was a pro Israel speech?

    If no, then the school admins can fuck right off

  • hakase@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Kinda brilliant on the class president’s part - still give the speech and get the media coverage for it, but do it before commencement so they’re less likely to steal your diploma as a result.