Posted on 05/07/2024 5:18:53 AM PDT by SJackson
🚨VIDEO: A REAL interview we had at NYU:
QUESTION: “Why are you protesting?”
PROTESTER #1: “I don’t know. I’m pretty sure there’s something about Israel [turns to other person] Why are we protesting?”
PROTESTER #2: “I wish I was more educated.”
PROTESTER #1: “I’m not either.” pic.twitter.com/8aB2ZoTCCk
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) April 24, 2024
Just as many have suspected, not all of those impassioned student protesters know what they are protesting. Some of them have just let slip, as they were being interviewed by journalists from the New York Post, that they haven’t the faintest idea what they are supposed to be opposing. Robert Spencer wrote about this briefly here, and more on this comical confusion can be found here: “Anti-Israel protesters at NYU admit they have no idea what they’re protesting: ‘I wish I was more educated,’” by Emily Crane, New York Post, April 25, 2024:
Two Columbia University students who rushed to join NYU’s violent anti-Israel rally are going viral after admitting they had no idea what the protest was about — and wished they were “more educated.”
The unidentified students rattled off their clueless rationale on the steps of the NYU campus in downtown Manhattan as a slew of NYPD cops clad in riot gear stood in the background, as seen in footage viewed more than 3 million times since being shared by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani late Wednesday.
“I think the main goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stop … I honestly don’t know all of what NYU is doing,” one admitted when asked about the protest’s purpose.
“Support for Palestine”? Sounds innocuous, but what the chants are really calling for? “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free” means the eradication of the Jewish state, the expulsion or killing of all of its Jewish inhabitants, and the replacement of Israel by a twenty-third Arab state. Do these protesters understand the meaning of what they have been taught to mindlessly repeat? And what about the other chants, such as “End Genocide Now,” which falsely accuses Israel of the gravest of crimes? Do they even know what the word “genocide” means? And when these student protesters praise Hamas for its “resistance,” do they know that they are praising a terror group whose operatives on October 7 raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered 1,200 Israelis, and kidnapped another 260? When 3,000 Hamas members swooped into Israel in cars, on motorbikes, on paragliders, to engage in their orgy of killings, was that an act of “resistance”?
An unnamed Columbia University student gave her bizarre rationale when she was being interviewed on the steps of the NYU campus.
A slew of NYPD cops clad in riot gear stood in the background.
Asked if there was “something NYU is doing,” the student meekly replied: “I really don’t know, I’m pretty sure they are…”
Yes, of course. NYU must be doing “something” objectionable — that’s why there are students now objecting — but she “really doesn’t know” what it is. But if other people think there should be a protest on the NYU campus, she’s “pretty sure they are” doing it for a good reason. Hers not to reason why, hers but to scream and cry. And I suspect a great many other students now making life so unpleasant on campuses across America are equally clueless, and equally determined, despite their ignorance, to shout their slogans, flaunt their keffiyehs, and wave their Palestinian flags.
Those Columbia students, with their vague and bland little souls, just knew they should be joining the NYU students. That’s what protesters are supposed to do — support one another. They weren’t sure what exactly was the gravamen of the charges against the NYU administration, but were sure it must have been important: “something to do with Israel.” What, exactly? Oh, gosh, you know, we’re not exactly sure. But it is very important that we join the crowd to show just where we stand, even if we don’t quite know what it’s all about. Some one will let us know.
Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds.
Nothing more need be said.
They love the smell of fake virtue in the morning.
Hey, if he was more educated, he would had World History instead of Transgender and Gay Liberation History...🤓
And government run schools can't have educated students..they need to be dumb...
NOW-—THERE IS A PRIZE TO TAKE HOME GO YOUR FAMILY-————NOSE RING, ET AL.
40% or less at any given Hamas college riot are student - all the others are adults from somewhere else.
I find it hard to beleive that they don’t know that the protest is about Jew-Hatred- just as I’d find it hard to beleive that students who joined protests calling for the eradication of black people back in the day.
They hear the hateful chants of the hate-filled palestinians, and they readily join in on the chants. One can’t say that “Israel should be exterminated” and not know that to go along is to declare their own hateful antisemetic feelings. The rage on their faces as they scream the hate rhetoric tells it all.
They may not know why hamas is engaged in their pathetic campaign of taquiya, but they know full well the hate speech that they are spouting.
[[ It explains a great deal. That, among other things, people do and say things in a crowd that they would never say or do, individually]]
Yes, their inner biases, their inner hatred, their inner racism comes to the surface when they are in a crowd because they know there is power in numbers, and if anyone objects or calls them out, they know 10-20 other hate-filled maggots will defend them. But alone, they would lose arguments bedause they couldn’t scream loud enough to drown out the truth
Reminds me of the old Li’l Abner comic strip from 1968 in which the Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything (S.W.I.N.E.) take over the campus.
The terrified University Regents decide to sell the University! The only buyers were the Mafia who brings in the mob enforcers.
Here come the SWINE protesting!
I still get a thrill remembering how the leader of the S.W.I.N.E. used his front teeth to assault the brass knuckles of the mob enforcers. Who says brass won’t make a spark! These did. Big ones at that!
Anyone else remember that old comic strip? Could easily be reprinted today with no changes.
BTTT
“But if other people think there should be a protest on the NYU campus, she’s “pretty sure they are” doing it for a good reason. Hers not to reason why, hers but to scream and cry.”
A wonderfully descriptive two sentences.
Yup-they’re the same hateful bullies that send nasty e mails but would NEVER say that stuff to you to your face
Xactly- like in the Christmas Story, Ralphie kept gettign bullied because the bully htought he was a whimp, but then one day he stood his ground and fought back and went berserk, and sent the bully packing
As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout So is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. Proverbs 11:22
Thanks for mentioning Canetti - haven’t read him for many years now. Will have to dig up some of his works from the pile.
Crowds and Power is available online as a PDF by the way, just for general information.
Except that every one of them will reliably vote Democommie for the rest of their miserable lives.
I have the book and read it years ago
You want women to suffer? Time to teach the English/American language in school.
I’d really like to attach that nose ring to 9-volt battery!
A dumb heifer being led by her nose
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