• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    apparently for the crime of writing op-eds for her university’s newspaper in support of Palestine and pushing back against leadership’s actions.

    There is no more free speech in the USA, this thing Americans always claimed to br so proud of. Now you can be kidnapped and disappeared for speaking out against government-sanctioned genocide.

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      I really don’t think it’s ever been a thing. Free speech that is.

      Cause too much trouble and they’ll ask you to kill yourself and if you don’t they’ll go public with some info that they spied on you to get.

      It’s hard to say how many people were dragged away for being suspected of communist sympathies.

      It’s what we are as a species.

      If someone did something big and shitty at any point in our history, thank your lucky stars if you don’t look like him. Imagine trying to catch a plane in 2002 as a Sikh. “Yes, fbi? I think there’s a big scary muslin getting on my plane.”

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      Oh, and Kent State. Man, if I wasn’t going back to bed I could probably find many examples. We been doing it forever.