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nihilisticlinguistics · 7 months ago

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do people know why american university students are protesting at their colleges, as opposed to their places of government, etc.?

like, I'm sure some of it is proximity -- not all schools are near their state capitals or other centers of power -- but a *lot* of it, and the reason schools like Columbia are shitting themselves over these protests, is because of the endowments

#im just not sure how common knowledge this is #my school had kind of a high ratio of students involved in protesting the administration and i believe still does #but notably they are *not* protesting to this degree. why?#because when they told the president of the college they wanted the school to divest from industries supporting the war on Gaza #the president convened the committee that responds to those demands and they're actively considering the proposal now #(per the student newspaper)#instead of pitching a fit about what they'll do with their obscene amount of money instead of investing it in warmongering companies #will it pan out? idk. it took the committee 6 years to finally divest from the Enbridge pipeline #but the scale of the protests nationally may make them think twice about shooting down the proposal

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