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  1. 13 minutes ago, HendersonHorns said:

    This might not be the place. I’ve thought about starting a new thread on the political board but wanted to check her first. 
     

    this should be a time of coming together for left and right sides 

     

    I’m conservative but have ties to UT from the 70s when my mom went there. 
     

    i think the government was very heavy handed and it was an embarrassment to the state, period.  I hope the kids arrested are compensated in some way, but it will never make up for what happened. 
     

    I hope people can see how closely this aligns with the second amendment. 
     

    I’ve seen people on this board say fuck the second amendment, ban all guns. 
     

    there’s no difference in punishing me for what I have because of actions of looney assholes who just want to kill. The same way the students were punished for New York and the order Ivy League schools. 
     

    i hope this makes sense. It’s been on my heart since I watched the cameras that have been posted here many times. 
     

    we have to support each other. We have to remember how innocent people and students are walking the line of multiple rights being stepped on because of the actions of bad players. 
     

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    Christ on a cracker, don’t bring guns into this discussion. Talk about a derail if there ever was one.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, BonzoMontreaux said:

    I am assuming that all 57 arrested can take civil action against the State and University.  The powers that be that punched first better buckle get ready to get hit back. 

    I’ve been wondering about this. Can one of the lawyers opine on whether the University and/or State can be subject of lawsuit on these actions or can they stand behind sovereign immunity? 

    Now, since we’re supposed to interject humor into our posts, here’s a gif of a guy getting kicked in the nuts.

    kick in nuts GIF

  3. 1 minute ago, Captainant said:

    It's completely inappropriate to academically punish students for peaceful and legal expressions of free speech. 

    It's horrifying how amped you are to punish these students for having an opinion you don't like. 

    Especially when the arrests appear to have been entirely arbitrary. Using their logic, everyone present should be kicked off campus.

  4. 6 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    And the escalation of fuckery and punishment of students for speaking the wrong speech continues

    https://www.kut.org/education/2024-04-26/ut-austin-says-arrested-protesters-including-students-will-not-be-allowed-on-campus

    Protesters arrested for trespassing at UT Austin this week will not be allowed back on campus despite charges against them being dropped, a university spokesperson confirmed Friday.

    The spokesperson did not respond to questions about how this could impact students who have final exams and plan to graduate in a couple weeks. A spokesperson told KUT the Office of the Dean of Students determines penalties for students, including how long a ban is in place.

    Fifty-seven people were arrested Wednesday during pro-Palestinian protests on the university campus. UT Austin said roughly half of those arrested were students.

    That includes Jumana Fakhreddine, a senior and pre-med student. The 22-year-old said she was arrested Wednesday afternoon, about 10 minutes after joining the protests. Fakhreddine said four to five officers lifted her off her feet and put her in zip-tie handcuffs.

    The charges against her were dropped and she was released from jail just after midnight Thursday. She said since her release, no one from UT Austin has contacted her. She found she was not welcome on campus through a flyer circulated by the university.

    “We thought that because the charges got dropped, we would be able to go to campus because we felt like that proved we didn’t do anything wrong,” she said. “But I guess that’s not true.”

    UT Austin warned students before the protest that they could be disciplined for participating.

    Fakhreddine said she's not sure if she'll be able to take her organic chemistry final on campus next week. She doesn’t need the class to graduate, she said, but does need it to apply to medical school.

    “Initially I was angry about the whole thing, but I’m sad about how an educational institution is treating its students,” Fakhreddine said. “It just feels like such a betrayal.”

    That’s some serious bullshit. It’s amazing to me that the University is tripling down on this. This is some serious backwater shit.

  5. 13 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    So, where was the Palestinian disapproval of 10/7?

    What was the consensus reaction from their citizens, outrage or celebration?

    And therein lies a huge part of the problem. Israel’s official policies towards the Palestinian people residing in Gaza has been one of oppressing the general population. When that happens, people see Israel as an oppressor and Hamas can seize upon that and effectively use propaganda to influence Gazans. People that were pretty normal people get radicalized because they think Hamas will solve their problems when, in reality, we know that not to be the case.

    Hamas is a terrorist organization that invites and incites violence and by inciting violence on 10/7, invited violence upon Gazans. Now Gazans have been enduring bombs raining down on their heads, being forced from their homes, being denied food and healthcare for more than 6 months. Do you think Gazans are looking around and thinking “Praise Allah, Israel is here to save us?” Of course not, it just further radicalizes the populace and around and around we go.
    Continuing to do the same shit on repeat doesn’t and will never work. Continuing with a failed policy only leads to death and suffering on both sides.

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  6. 1 minute ago, Armybrat said:

    But I really do apologize if I offended anyone here and will withdraw and let y’all carry on without any comments from this old cunt.

     

    It would be better if you would take down your incredibly dumb Facebook meme. Discussion is welcome and it’s clear now that you can engage with your opinions, but dumb Facebook memes are not.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    Food, local travel, and music are among the top things to love about Austin.  Seems pretty natural they'd all feature prominently in a thread like this.

    On that note, another thing I love about Austin... Bob Schneider at the Saxon Pub:

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    My point was that people were missing the point of the thread and turning it into a thread of all the shitty places they used to eat at when they were in school. Those places were great when you were poor and didn’t care, but Dago is trying to celebrate what’s great about “new” Austin and that’s not Kerbey Lane and Texadelphia. I love the premise of the thread as someone that craps on Austin plenty as it demonstrates that there are still great things about the city despite it changing from whatever point in time you considered to be the “glory years” in your mind.

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  8. 25 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    Bitchfest is over here - 

     

    Keep fighting the good fight. Great premise for a thread, but that premise seems to be getting lost on the majority. Also seems to be turning into a thread more appropriate for Food & Travel, but I know that’s not what you intended.

  9. 6 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    I never thought about it but I think you are correct. Maybe the jewish community is delusional. Have you thought about presenting your thoughts to the Anti-defimation League?

    How the surge in antisemitism is affecting countries around the world

    By Reuters
    October 31, 202310:25 AM CDTUpdated 6 months ago
     
    The following are details of how the surge is affecting countries, compiled by Reuters reporters around the world:

    UNITED STATES

    Jewish advocacy group the Anti-Defamation League reported last week that antisemitic incidents had risen by about 400% in the two weeks following the Oct. 7 attack, compared with the same period last year.
     
    Government officials met American-Jewish leaders on Monday to discuss steps to counter what a White House official described as an alarming uptick in reported instances of antisemitism on university campuses.
     
    After a man screaming "Free Palestine" and "Kill Jews" attempted to break into a Jewish family's home in Los Angeles on Oct. 25, Mayor Karen Bass said police would continue stepping up patrols in communities throughout the city.
     

    CANADA

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke on Oct. 17 of a "scary rise" in antisemitism in Canada, citing incidents at a Jewish high school in Toronto as well as escalating inflammatory language online.

    ARGENTINA

    Scarred by two attacks in the 1990s on the Israeli embassy and on a Jewish community centre, which killed over 100 people in total, Argentine Jewish leaders have been advising community members to exercise caution and increase vigilance.
     
    A well-known Jewish school in Buenos Aires asked pupils not to wear their usual uniforms, while some teams pulled out of a table tennis competition being held at a Jewish club for fear it could be targeted.
    Local media reported last week an Argentine man was arrested after calling on social media platform 4chan for attacks on Jewish children in schools.

    BRAZIL

    Jewish leaders have noticed a rise in antisemitic discourse online, and incidents such as graffiti defacing a synagogue in Rio de Janeiro. No instances of physical threats or assaults have been reported.
     
    "We are very concerned. We have increased the security of our institutions," said Ricardo Berkiensztat, executive president of the Jewish Federation of the State of Sao Paulo.
    He said he had seen comments online such as "Hitler didn't finish, he should have finished killing Jews".

    BRITAIN

    London's police force said there had been a 14-fold increase in incidents of antisemitism since the Oct. 7 attack.
    The Community Security Trust, which collates reports of antisemitism in Britain, said the number of incidents in the three weeks following the attack was the highest for any three-week period since it started collecting data in 1984.
     

    FRANCE

    Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday that since Oct. 7 there had been 819 antisemitic acts. That compares with a figure of 436 for the whole of 2022.
    Darmanin said there had been 414 arrests in connection with this trend.

    GERMANY

    A survey by a civil society observatory, the RIAS, found a 240% year-on-year increase in antisemitic incidents in the period of Oct. 7-15.

    NETHERLANDS

    No official figures are available yet, but Eddo Verdoner, national coordinator for combating antisemitism, said a sharp rise had been observed and anxiety was high in the Jewish community.
    He said Jewish parents had reported their children had been harassed at school, with comments such as "Hamas were right" and "they should have done it earlier" directed at them.

    SOUTH AFRICA

    The number of antisemitic incidents in October is nine times higher than the average recorded for that month over the past decade, according to David Saks, associate director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies.
    In one incident, a woman who shared a link to information about a protest calling for the release of Israeli hostages being held in Gaza was abused online, including a post that said "we'll come for her babies next".

    RUSSIA

    After an angry crowd stormed an airport in the Dagestan region searching for Jews to harm after a plane arrived from Tel Aviv, the president of Russia's Federation of Jewish Communities called on the authorities to harshly punish the organisers.
    Rabbi Alexander Boroda said the airport riot "undermined the basic foundations of our multi-cultural and multi-national state".

    CHINA

    No figures are available on antisemitic incidents. On Oct. 13, a staff member of the Israeli embassy in Beijing was assaulted and a suspect was arrested.
    Chinese social media is awash with antisemitic content, including posts suggesting the Nazi Holocaust was justified and likening Jews to parasites, vampires or snakes.
    A foreign ministry spokesperson said the law prohibited the use of the internet to propagate hate speech, but there were no discernible efforts by the authorities to curb antisemitic activity online.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Perhaps, now is the time to give everyone a thumbs up for their contributions to bringing the Cloak Room to the Daily Texan. Nice job all around guys.

    What does this have to with the subject of this thread? Start another thread for discussion of the increase in antisemitism and let’s discuss there. It’s a timely and important topic to discuss, but that’s not what this thread is about.

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  10. 3 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

    That is fucked up beyond reproach. Guessing many of those kids didn't have a high school ceremony with COVID either. And to lose this one as well?

    Protest, fine. Take it to a level where you're encumbering and preventing once-in-a-lifetime celebratory opportunities after you've worked your ass off?

    Go fuck yourselves you unbridled cunts.

    USC canceled the speech of the valedictorian over “safety concerns” due to the student being Muslim. Apparently they had received threats from pro-Israel folks. As we all know, things ramped up at USC this week so they canceled the “main stage” commencement ceremonies over concerns of having 65k people in one place at one time due to the backlash of having canceled the Muslim valedictorian’s traditional speech. Individual schools and programs will still conduct commencement ceremonies and receptions on campus as usual.

     

     

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  11. 3 minutes ago, Skipper said:

    I only jumped into the thread because you misrepresented what was said in the text to fit your agenda/position.  I haven't had time to (nor do I really plan to or have any desire to) read the entire thread or watch every video.  I assume a bunch of asshole cops acted like you might expect asshole cops might act when mixed with asshole protestors.  If you want to blame Hartzell for not giving very specific instructions to minimize confrontation, then that's probably a valid criticism and I would have perused the thread and turned my attention back to the draft without engaging.  Now I'm turning my attention to bed.  I'll let you keep yelling at the clouds assuming anyone that disagrees with you is a 75 year old Newsmax junkie.  Good luck with that.

    Why are protesters exercising their constitutional right to assemble assholes? 

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