Palestine college student protest megathread

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I think that there should be a megathread and not several different outrage threads on this.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Anyway, that was what this reminded me of.  Every tent had its own "thing" going on and it was all playacting like they were either a warzone, or a music festival, or a mini-school.  So one tent was making s'mores, one tent was doing finger painting, one tent was offering to teach you about the time in 1475 the Jews kidnapped a toddler for ritual sacrifice and cannibalism.

Genuine question: Is this for dramatic effect or did you literally have someone offering in person to regale you with an old blood libel story?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

nice attempt I guess, but I don't think that will make him cool again

I mean he was a white pop rapper from the 2010's, he should be as relevant as Katy Perry is at this point, but he still has some appeal.

It is incredibly funny though how nearly every single one of these better rappers fell off due to celebrity egos imploding and associated bad behavior

https://twitter.com/AShihipar/status/1787614256281649211

I mean, Jay-Z is a wildly successful rap mogul married to one of the top five artists in the world, and his scandals are almost quaint compared to everyone else.

You'd be surprised how much a certain type of feminist-inclined music fan (a type of which I am an example) dislikes Jay-Z. I honestly had more respect for Kendrick Lamar (minus the hotep-adjacent stuff) even before the Drake beef.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Jay-Z seems out of the game at this point and so he's not really present to have respectability challenged either way. To me his last hurrah was being celebrity royalty and hanging out with the Obamas - and also cheating on Bey which inspired her to make "Lemonade." So yeah, not much going on in the last eight years.

The tragically funny thing is that Beyonce herself is still processing the fact that he cheated on her and as of her most recent album seems to have decided that Her Man did nothing wrong, it was all the other bitches who were at fault for seducing him. So much for Beyonce-as-peak-feminism.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

A vast portion of these protesters are white rich kids born and bred here in America.


Better take a look at ourselves and ask ourselves, what we're teaching these kids.

young rich people are horrible at far higher rates than young middle class people.  They are worse in some ways than even young poor people.  The only thing we can do is try and convince young rich parents to NOT spoil their offspring.  For example, everyone should work in the service industry for a stretch, and not enough kids, especially rich kids, do.  It makes you a better person, certainly a better customer.  It shouldn't be required by the written law or anything, but it should be highly encouraged and people that have not should be mocked heavily for it.  (not that you can't usually tell)

You'll be happy to know that in certain young, left-wing, but non-Like This circles, they already are; "you can tell [X] has never worked retail" is something I hear people saying at least once or twice a week.