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Student protesters face same suspensions as those who bring assault rifles to campus

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1y ago

Student protesters face same suspensions as those who bring assault rifles to campus

www.latimes.com /california/story/2024-05-09/student-protesters-face-same-suspensions-as-those-who-bring-assault-rifles-to-campus

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This is proof that those making the decisions fear protest to the same level as they fear long guns.
One they should fear much less, the other much more.
What a timeline.
- Weapons kill bodies; protests kill corporate ideology.
- It's the combination they are afraid of
  
  Yeah, that seems like the obvious response to me. Want to pretend like we're armed? Okay, now we're armed.
More protests need people openly armed so cops are less likely to abuse us and leaders listen.
Very cool students!
- Yeah that'll end well. They'll either have the swat team mowing people down for have the national guard do the same thing. They'll treat it like terrorism and wipe everyone out, then go on the evening news and say the protestors were firing on police first and killing puppies.
  
  That's not how it has historically went. When the protestors are armed, organized, and remain peaceful, the cops back off because cops are cowards
- That only works if you're a fascist, because cops won't target their allies.
  
  Black Panthers seemed to prove otherwise. They won't brutalize in the moment, but it will stick in their craw and they'll wait to hurt you later.
- That only works if they break no other laws. In a lot of places, committing a misdemeanor while armed makes it a felony.
  
  Yeah, I don't know that it would work well in these particular protests.
If they're going to get the same suspension either way, they might as well..........
- Fast track to double secret probation!
Those who make peaceful protest impossible, make violent protest inevitable.
That's why you might as well strap up when protesting. Gonna get the same shit no matter what.
At least when you're strapped, the police are behaved.
Why you should always protest with guns
- I disagree. Protesting with guns just means the whole thing would devolve into a firefight with more civilians than police being killed.
  And there's the strong likelihood in that situation that innocent bystanders would be murdered.
  
  It’s not happened like that in the past.
  If protesters are armed then the police tend to back off.
  Of course, the government then has to choose wether or not to drop bombs on the protesters, but the odds are way, way against that.
I come and study in a place that protesting in university is almost normal, would even go to say that is one of the staples of Chilean universitary culture, something you must Live at lest once to feel complete would say... I can't believe that in the so called "country of freedom" students are repressed like in authoritarian countries. (Even tough they don't reach in extent to commit true crimes against humanity to those who oppose.)
Students should be the spearhead of societal change, and a society that suppress the students is a society that suppress change.
Here in chile, that kind of attitude would make the protests worsen off heavily and be turned around to demand for the deanery to be replaced.
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