seahorse

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"Genocide is well and good doo doo dee doo"

 
[–] seahorse@midwest.social 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] seahorse@midwest.social 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

White lives matter

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fash in Springfield yesterday

 
 

SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed legislation that will require public universities in California to update their codes of conduct and train students on how to protest with civility, a response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations that erupted across the state last spring.

Universities will also have to add mandatory antidiscrimination training for students under the laws, which were introduced by Jewish lawmakers with the aim of counteracting antisemitic harassment that has reportedly spiked on college campuses since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel last year.

Both parties in the state Legislature broadly supported the proposals, despite opposition from pro-Palestinian activists and the ACLU. And Newsom endorsed updating university codes of conduct even before the bill was on his desk. The Democratic governor traveled to Israel soon after the attacks and released a plan targeting antisemitism in April as university protests were peaking.

“We know that tensions are high following the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas,” state Sen. Steve Glazer, author of the codes of conduct bill, told reporters earlier this year. “Even in these difficult circumstances, all students should be able to freely express themselves without threat or intimidation, especially on college campuses.”

Protests have not yet exploded on California campuses the way they did last spring. And public university leaders have promised not to tolerate pro-Palestinian encampments that were raised up on several California campuses last year.

Much of the last academic year was marked by turmoil over the war. Jewish students at Berkeley had to be evacuated from an event as counter protesters forced open a door at the venue. Cal Poly Humboldt demonstrators occupied an administrative building for days. And counter protesters, some of them still unidentified, viciously beat occupants of a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California Los Angeles.

The Legislature’s Jewish Caucus members, all Democrats, were frustrated by the responses of university leaders — and responded with legislation. At first, they sought more sweeping changes, including a ban on calls for genocide, but that provision and others that tested free speech rights were removed.

The state’s public universities haven’t fought the changes, and some campuses have already begun steps such as code of conduct updates.

Yet the ACLU contested some of the proposals, arguing in one letter to lawmakers that the codes of conduct change would be duplicative and “only serves to chill the speech of students.” Also opposed were the United Auto Workers 4811, a campus workers union at the UC that went on strike last spring in protest of the system’s response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations. That work stoppage caused some Jewish lawmakers to reject legislation that would have provided unemployment benefits to striking workers.

In addition to this round of legislation, Newsom also signed a bill meant to prevent “hate littering” — the distribution of flyers and other materials on private property that threaten or harass people based on their identity.

 
[–] seahorse@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
 

It makes me think of this episode specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street

I remember watching/reading/dissecting this episode in junior high. In Ohio. It's fucking nuts to see this playing out in real life.

The ending narration:

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices ... to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill ... and suspicion can destroy ... and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own—for the children and the children yet unborn.

 

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/17348714

Hey all, you might see some flyers from a socialist group who were originally working with Cincinnati Socialists about a planned event on 9/28. Cincy socialists canceled their event per the wishes of the Haitian community. The Haitian community has asked for no demonstrations for the month of September and they do not support this event stating that any planned action against the wishes of the Haitian community is to be viewed as actions of colonizers.

The Black Panthers have been told not to demonstrate as well as other groups (we had a very large demonstration planned and we canceled per the Haitian community’s wishes), but this group is choosing selfish needs over solidarity and inflicting their addenda on people who do not want it.

 

Hey all, you might see some flyers from a socialist group who were originally working with Cincinnati Socialists about a planned event on 9/28. Cincy socialists canceled their event per the wishes of the Haitian community. The Haitian community has asked for no demonstrations for the month of September and they do not support this event stating that any planned action against the wishes of the Haitian community is to be viewed as actions of colonizers.

The Black Panthers have been told not to demonstrate as well as other groups (we had a very large demonstration planned and we canceled per the Haitian community’s wishes), but this group is choosing selfish needs over solidarity and inflicting their addenda on people who do not want it.

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

"Sorry gramps, forgot about Pearl Harbor"

 
[–] seahorse@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

Looking forward to Zuck singing my kids to sleep.

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 12 points 1 week ago

I audibly chuckled

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm surprised you're all taking this news so well.

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

You may not like it, but this is what peak caloric intake looks like

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

"I just want to own the media I consume in a high quality, portable format without the threat of it disappearing, matey"

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