I tend not to deal in absolutes and understand that there is nuance to the types of groups that do these kinds of large scale protests, but everything I've seen leads me to believe that a majority of these college students are genuinely very dumb. They seem wildly misinformed on what has even taken place since October 7th and even more ignorant of the history between the two countries. They can boil down their positions to one-liners about Obama being a terrorist and colonizers and stuff like that, but they can't actually articulate any kind of principled position or express nuance in regards to the conflict at all. There are, of course, well-meaning people who are involved, but they appear to be an ever-shrinking minority.
Also, any American who protests explicitly in favor of Hamas...I don't want to say they should lose their right to free speech or their right to vote, because I believe those rights should be afforded to EVERYONE, but they should face consequences for advocating in favor of a terrorist group. That sh*t makes my blood boil.
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This. That said, I strongly oppose any effort by Republicans to follow the Russian, Chinese, or Iranian models on cracking down on these protesters, as I strongly suspect they want to do, given the recent authoritarian turn of the GOP recently.
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