MIT bans class president from graduation commencement after pro-Palestinian speech
MIT bans class president from graduation commencement after pro-Palestinian speech
MIT? !!! WHAT THE FUCK?
DARPA money is a hell of a drug?
I have no idea if this is a real thing or not.
If there's one thing I know: any string of random words is likely a project studied or funded by DARPA.
MIT team receives $10.4 million biomanufacturing grant from DARPA With the grant, MIT’s Biomanufacturing Research Program aims to develop new technologies that can rapidly manufacture biologic drugs on the battlefield.
https://news.mit.edu/2013/biomanufacturing-research-program-grant-0918
So, yeah, DARPA money for drugs is a drug for MIT.
Old article. But... There's lots out there.
AIPAC pressure.
Research needs money for happening. You need to pay researchers, structures, various staff. Even more so a fancy structure as MIT
Israel (and American Zionists) have the power to cancel a sizeable amount of research contracts with MIT. (AIPAC shows how well organised they are, originally for defence from antisemitism, now for defence from… Palestine? I guess? 🤷♂️ )
Then for MIT (that is a corporation like another) comes to damage control. On one hand PR, on the other money.
MIT took the money, Stanford (in the case of DEI) took the PR.
I am still 100% sure neither of the two can give a damn of Palestinians, Israel or DEI. It’s just MBA stuff 🤷♂️
(I have my opinions on the situation in Palestine but I don’t want this post to be about that)
"You showed the world that MIT wants a free Palestine".
“You called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and you stood in solidarity with the pro-Palestine activists on campus. You faced threats, intimidation, and suppression coming from all directions, especially your own university officials, but you prevailed because the MIT community that I know would never tolerate a genocide."
“Right now, while we prepare to graduate and move forward with our lives, there are no universities left in Gaza..We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it.”
“This means that Israel’s assault on the Palestinian people is not only aided and abetted by our country, but our school. As scientists, engineers, academics, and leaders, we have a commitment to support life, support aid efforts, and call for an arms embargo, and keep demanding, now as alumni, that MIT cuts the ties,"
Kinda brilliant on the class president's part - still give the speech and get the media coverage for it, but do it before commencement so they're less likely to steal your diploma as a result.
You would think that a college would know that the Palestinian people are not Hamas and the Palestinians are the ones being genocided by Israel so that tRump can build a golf course. MIT certainly doesn't have the brightest. Maybe the most cowardice.
Cowardice, stupidity and lack of emotional curiosity is what makes you a postigious place.
Massachusetts Institute of Terror
Self censoring is not the answer... Come on MIT, you know better.
Well, now that I say that, MIT has a not perfect track record when it comes to legal matters and policy decisions. I think of Aaron Swartz for instance...
Would they ban the person if it was a pro Israel speech?
If no, then the school admins can fuck right off
Too late. Megha Vemuri already exposed MIT and is a star with her Andor-level speech.
Strisand effect for sure!
Great that she spoke out but... Honey, where the fuck did you think you got accepted four years ago? MIT loves war.
edit: horny beavers hot for big missiles!
For this?
These universities largely deserve their Trump funding cuts.
Alot of them are tied to Israel to develop their tech
Wow that's pathetic, so theres no distinction left between MIT and that Bible belt shit hole university that didn't let a student graduate after she came out as gay
Whenever I try to believe things aren't bad and that I am delusional for learning how to gun, stuff like this happens. My hopes for a peaceful and boring future are dying.
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, <-- you are here
then you win.
The speech in question https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKSH7wJiqYK/
No one is upset that Israel wanted to do something about being attacked, but what’s happening is so wildly disproportionate. If hamas did that in any other country and that country decided to go full scorched earth in retaliation no one would support that yet somehow a single attack justifies what’s going on now?? If someone eggs your house do you hunt them down, burn down their house, kill them then do the same to all their relatives?? No obvious that’s insane and that’s essentially what’s happening here, the attack was wrong but two wrongs do not make a right and the force of the response is so far above uncalled for
What happened the 5th of October, do you even know?
Welcome to the united snake land of the thiefs, home of the slaves
As in the best places to shoot... right? /s
Two in the heart, one in the mind
make a list of all these fascists. people must not forget those who stood firmly on the side of genocide.
edit: you don't need to make distinguishing marks on their clothes when they're already wearing the swastika armband. "oh please don't mistreat the fascists, that makes you a fascist!"
That wasn't already a commencement speech?
Why not make a safe for work pro-Ukraine speech?
Yes why use your platform to bring attention to a genocide in an aperthide state, at great risk to you when you can just step in line and bend the knee to appease some cunts
Because Russia bad, Israel good.
Couldn’t have been worse than the cringefest speech Hank Green gave that’s for sure
"We encourage students inquiry and critical thinking" "no not like that!"
Yeah no. Calling Nazis Nazi is a perfectly rational take. One does not to condemn an active genocide "in a neutral manner," neither do Nazis deserve neutrality.