Paris has entered the fray:
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This one really encapsulates the correct academic response, to me.
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Oh, sure, this’ll work:
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I have heard people being called anarchist fascists by right wingers. 
I don’t think these people understand the English language.
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Nope. They love to twist it for their own ends, that’s for sure.
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Yep. They don’t understand “fascist” as anything but an insult. They don’t understand that it has objective meaning and that their behavior checks the boxes for it at 100%. As far as they understand, it’s the same as saying “poopypants.”
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What Beau said at the end about defeatism and unhelpful demoralizing rhetoric is spot on; it’s exactly what I push back against here, on a regular basis.
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Over 500 arrests in total at this point, for things like ‘trespassing’ (how are students and faculty trespassing on school property?):
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For those – unlike me – who prefer hearing over reading:
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Map of US locations so far:
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An eruption of campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war has handed Republicans a way to hammer two of their favorite targets: Liberal academia, where pro-Palestinian sentiment has long flourished, and Democratic leaders, who are so far rebuffing calls to roll out the National Guard in response to disruptive demonstrations.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/25/republicans-campus-protesters-democrats-00154508
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To understand how universities got to a place of such open conflict with their students, Slate spoke with Katherine S. Cho, a professor of higher education at Loyola University in Chicago who studies university administrations’ relationship to social justice activism. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.
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it is a response to this:
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Ugh. And never mind what the protests are about. They’re all libruls, so they MUST deserve a beating. 
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Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas.
Unless of course those spewing it are Nazis. Hell, it’s their free speech we’ve been fighting for all along!
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