Ugh... What these students refer to as "protests" are nothing less than an excuse to express anger and betterness outward, as is the mindset of the modern day activist.

Let's get BB up to 100k

It’s like recess for these kids, they are the new schoolyard bullies immature and childlike

In four season climates the spring is definitely a boiling time in all senses when you are young

The college degree currency has been dropped for federal employment. And I must say, even the graduates …. are…. many of them …. simply inept … concepts wise or vocabulary wise. You start explaining things to them, and the glassy look goes over their eyes in 30 seconds. Yes, in the real world, at the beginning, it takes longer than TikTok to hear out what the job entails. It is exhausting 😰😰😰😰😰🥵🥵🥵🤬🤬🤬🤯

Can you be a real activist if the machine is on your side?

This one already happened, time is a flat circle.

Protests becoming bigoted but mostly peaceful

Leather hat guy nailed it. Removing the federal guarantee on student loans is the most powerful step that could be taken now.

Why would anyone want to be a college president at this point

I watched a protest at OSU that happened a few days ago and what they want from the protest is to be heard. Not to gain any change, just to be heard bitching. These kids can't hold a conversation on this or possibly any subject they feel so strongly about. Asking the average protester which river and which sea is met with stupid looks.

Really. It's nothing short of performative and hero worship 😱. Spoiled brats have zero agency and a warped perception of reality. 🐿

Please bring interview Norman Finkelstein

'Really low resolution potato camera quality belief'. Yes! Community Love!

George feared for his job, plan and simple. Look at that and it will explain his behavior. He had no support for standing firm and saying the students and his staff that supported them were out of order. Also, look at the break down in simple relationships over time. There are unintended consequences for all actions. If you create a separate department for Ethnic Studies, will there be results that might have negative consequences? Why wasn't ES simply part of the Sociology Department or the History department? Instead, a group broke off and created division, more bureaucracy.

Does Evergreen still exist? Did it collapse or is it going on its social justice ways?

I have really appreciated this channel for some years now. However, I am struggling with this conversation in that there doesn’t seem to be any expressed acknowledgment that there may be some true and thoughtful conviction held by at least some, or even a large number, of the participants in these protests. The world, through the lens of many social media platforms and of both independent and mainstream media has witnessed the death, injury, and orphaning of thousands of innocent children in this war. The United States government continues to send tax dollars, in our name, to support Israel's war against Palestinians, regardless of how it might be being waged. Is it ever ok to protest a government's complicity in an action you feel is wrong? Or are you just saying that these students are on the wrong side of what you see as a just war? I have struggled to be involved in protests and marches at times because of my discomfort with the organization, action, or language used. But I have also been inspired to act, as well, through my involvement with other protests, silent and prayerful vigils, or with lobbying efforts. Is it your belief that to be "anti-woke" means to reject, altogether, protest as a legitimate means of trying to influence change? If one thinks that our government should not authorize the use of taxpayer funds for a particular project or agenda, could not right action include thoughtful protest?

That magickal season that comes around every four years.

Where is George Bridges? Has Evergreen gotten any better without him?

Gotta get that extra credit!

The signifier vs the content is paramount. And it all rests on who (clinicians) gets paid and how (billing nightmare). Ordinary people (consumers) are beholden to their insurances. And the insurance companies rule the licensed practitioners. And the licensed practitioners have monopoly on treating our health problems (medicine, e.g.) I do have a friend who quit the PhD program at the dissertation writing. All classes and practical hours completed, she was sick and tired of having to keep paying to the school for just being on the roster and not receiving any support for completing the dissertation work.

2:55 The thing is, in the Mid East they don't differentiate between Israel and the Js. So I'm not sure we should either. Or rather, WE should be able to because we are reasonable people, but we also need to understand what's going on on the ground is far from reasonable. These are people already willing to put their own children and people in hospitals at risk for their propaganda and their hatred.

Disappointing amount of speculation in this.

There was one story about helping the community they were in to help stop pollutants that was told here. We are surrounded by colleges and universities here in my community. The only thing they provided was the complaint that we were racist, homophobes but provided great dinking establishments..it would be wonderful if we can get climate activists to prove that the neighborhood is being destroyed by overdevelopment but they would rather live in the developments and drink and complain about unproven climate damage thousands of miles away. Our local park however brings on environmental students to replant native trees and foliage. That's a start.

I've long thought these demonstrations were some form of mass-group-psychotherapy....but in the last few years they seem to have become some weird out-of-hand encounter-group...

I'm ready for this now… if you really loved your audience you'd roll this forward 98 minutes to accommodate my schedule!

I think, 'proximity' is a helpful way to think bout protests. Is what is being asked for achievable? Is the power that the protest is directed towards immediate or close? Can the demands be affected quickly? And so on.

Jews are resilient. They have 2000 years of history encoded in their DNA that education is their greatest form of resilience. Other minority groups might want to understand that the Jews who survived the Holocaust embraced life and survival. They didn't demand that others pay them for their pain. Instead, they put their heads down and persevered. And when MENA region Jews were expelled from their home countries in 1948, they also persevered. Their descendants are now the majority of Israel's Jewish population. What did the Palestinian Arabs do in 1948 when the UN established two states (where no state had existed before), they fought the new Israeli state. They did not do what the Jews did and build. No, they denied themselves their own internationally recognized state...and that is the path they have followed since then. To the detriment of their own people, culture, society, economy.

Could really just substitute a IQ/conscientiousness test for college degrees.

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They need do way instain mother

As a long time viewer, this was disappointing to listen to, albeit I haven't listened to all of it yet. I'm as critical of the woke crowds as the next rational person, but at times, the American bubble is very real. To only see the Palestinian genocide through the lens of whinging young people with no other purpose is very reductive, and shows just how consumed we've become by very first world problems (i.e. the debate of gender/race) when we're unable to zoom out and realise that there are human-rights level problems worldwide. As the old saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day. I do not see young woke students who thrive under a good cause, and anti-war protest being mutually exclusive. In future history books, these protests will not fall under 'woke culture and its insanity', it will fall under 'anti-war protests of the 21st century'. These protests would have happened whether or not woke culture existed, because of the scale of the crimes. And as much as I think everyone should understand their cause to the root, I also believe witnessing a genocide is probably plenty reason to propel any young hot-blooded people to do something with their energy. Not everyone needs a doctorate in a cause, especially one as urgent as the crime of crimes. It simply goes against the grain of humanity, and that is enough for them to take a stand.

Anomie and atomization, emile durkheim, see his book S**c*de. This was the founding work of moden sociology and it is still an accurate description. The problem with modernity was always obvious, we just didnt care

But many of the international student protesters that are at Columbia do pay in full.. no ride ..

I had been expecting reparations riots.

For sure, I get a ding in my brain about A PERSON, even if I have known them for along time, when I suddenly see the pronouns behind their names in the Outlook at work. And then I wonder, how would they know how I refer to that person in the third person? If I “mis-pronounce” that person? Would I be told on, and would I hear about such “microaggression”against the person who is not even present at the offensive moment in the form of “marcoaggression” from HR notifying me and starting the process of my re-education?……

Why so many women..because they have veey high levels of anxiety and emotionality....they are reacting to their feelings. Anomie and loss of connection, thanks to social media and covid. Desperately seeking meaning and community. Doesn't matter what for but the more emotional the better.

Israel is integral to the US imperial project. Why are you guys so abysmally uninformed on such a long standing subject?

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• Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, (HAMAS) = 'Islamic Resistance Movement', were buttbirthed by disgruntled Muslim Brotherhood members w/ regional attachments (1987) • Occupoop, Occupy, CHAZ/CHOP, was buttbirthed by anarchist writer/“poet” Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) who wrote “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (1991)”

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