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Edit: Name of University fixed.
Fascists.
I'm out of the loop on this one. What exactly is happening over there at University of Texas?
Pro Palestinian protests are getting quashed with a complete violation of freedom of assembly
Uncle sam says nothing? You still have amendments and so on, right?
The Amendment still exists but someone gave Clarence Thomas an RV so it isn't in force at the moment.
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Those amendments are very selectively applied when it comes to any grassroots action that isn't fully right-wing. There is essentially no protection to speak against the state if they want to target you.
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People protesting another war, and they feel more aggression is the right answer.
I appreciate the juxtaposition with the sign. Great image.
This looks like it's right next to the student activity center so I'm guessing the sign is real. But good meme fodder.
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Whenever I see things like this I think back to something Lewis Black once said back during the Occupy Wall Street protests. They had him on ABC or one of the major news stations and asked him what he thought about it. His answer was along the lines of, "When were the college kids ever wrong?"
Change the world kids! No, not like that!
Cops don't belong on universities
Eh. There are times when a person in a uniform with some degree of authority on campus would be legitimately helpful, but they're never around for those moments.
UT campus rape was an epidemic when I was in school, back in the mid-'00s, and the police were notorious for just looking the other way.
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ACAB. Remember that when things get worse.
Should we beat and arrest the students or maybe sever ties with a nation committing war crimes? Better get those students and arrest record, looks good on job interviews.
Vast majority of protesters arrested don't end up with any charges or a record, the police know this, but they still get their mugshot taken which gets posted online by right-wingers, doxxing them to potential political violence.
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ACAB
Four dead in Ohio.
Can you link to an article please? This is horrific
Edit: oh it’s about the Kent state shootings. Here’s an article, https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ksu-may-4/4-dead-in-ohio-50-years-since-kent-state-tragedy/95-bd89f0de-fac1-428e-baf3-09f3c1ce2b33
It's from the Neal Young song about that.
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University of Texas at Austin. There were protests of the Vietnam war there and the university put giant planters into the west mall where the protests were to reduce their size. They’re still there today. They always felt a bit out of place then I learned the history
Get that photographer a pulitzer
Can someone OOTL this for me? What's going on in Texas?
More arrests of college students walking out of class and peacefully protesting the situation in Gaza. This time UT Austin.
What do they need the riot police for?
Spraying chemicals directly in the faces of nonviolent students and then beating the shit out of them with batons.
Violently suppressing peaceful protestors is my guess.
To make it look like the protestors are violent. They wouldn't call in those troops if it weren't for those savage antisemitic protestors, right?!?
Or if a bunch of school students are about to be killed and they need a group of nutsacks to stand around and do nothing.
These are the same dorks from Uvalde.
It's hard to crack down on dissent without them.
Great question.
Depending on your biases, either to try and maintain order to prevent it from becoming a riot, or to intimidate and assault protestors.
Given the history of police and protesting college kids, it's probably supposed to be mostly an intimidation thing.
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So what happened with state law protecting speech activity on this campus?.…
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Riot police is what you get when parents don't show their children love.
Oh come now... there's a very real chance their parents loved them, and they still became assholes.
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Guy in the center there forgot his gloves.
Lurch in the back is wondering if they have waited long enough before they get to start killing people.
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Brick time
Greg Abbot isn’t having none of that free speech bs
I'm not saying it's photoshoped, but the sign looks out of place and like an invitation to change its text.
Here is another camera angle. Source
Here is a LinkedIn post from at least 1 month prior with a photo of a similar sign. Source
Here is a LinkedIn post from at least 3 weeks prior that has been edited but contains the same phrase. Source. Because the post has been edited, it does not act as standalone evidence but it is supporting evidence.
The phrase seems to be an existing slogan for the campus, and there seems to be signage with that phrase and color of background of text. The photo in the original post seems to be plausible.
I went to school there. They had signs that read similar things back then. The university’s slogan is ‘what starts here changes the world’
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