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Law Prof. Katherine Franke Accuses Columbia of Empowering Trump by Agreeing to $400M “Ransom Note” (www.democracynow.org)

submitted 1 week ago by TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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Education Secretary Linda McMahon says Columbia University is on track to regain its federal funding after the Ivy League institution yielded to the Trump administration’s demands on Friday. The demands include banning face masks on campus, hiring 36 new security officers with greater power to arrest and crack down on students and appointing a “senior vice provost” to oversee the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies and the Center for Palestine Studies. Students say they will continue to fight for Palestinian rights and for Columbia to divest from Israel, but free speech experts are sounding the alarm. “We have no idea what comes next, but groveling before a bully, we all know, just encourages the bully,” says Katherine Franke, former professor at Columbia Law School.

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[–] Faith_Bubbles@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Columbia sells students to forced labour camp for $400M"

[–] oxysis@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~forced labor camp~~ concentration camp

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think Trump just gave them the excuse. Columbia hasn’t been soft at all. They did as much as they thought they could get away with.

And this is tradition. Columbia punished students for protesting Nazis in the 1930’s.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

True. Fucking school should've been shunned into a financial hole then.

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Every business and country that kneels before trump just empowers him and encourages his worst impulses. They all know it, yet they keep doing it. That's why we're fucked. We're in the beginning of the end of a pretty decent run of mostly civilised society.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Will they still pat themselves on that back about how tolerant they are after Vietnam?