This past September, the company became the first major Hollywood studio to publicly reject a high-profile letter — signed by stars including Stone and Bardem — that urged a cultural boycott of Israeli film institutions accused of engaging in “genocide and apartheid” against Palestinians. Warner Bros. later took the same position.
Ah, so not antisemitic, but "antisemitic". Imagine blacklisting Jewish signers as "antisemitic". Seems the Paramount execs are the actual antisemites.
Not necessarily. It's called arguing a conclusion to your audience in terms of premises they'll accept & understand.
The conclusion is "censorship is dangerous". The premise "fascists are pieces of shit" doesn't support that. That's a separate argument entirely.
Moreover, fascists are unlikely to accept that premise. Arguing that is a great way to make fascists stop listening, which people who don't know how to argue excel at.
Shortly before ABC announced the suspension, Nexstar, an owner of ABC affiliate stations around the country, said that it would pre-empt Mr. Kimmel’s program “for the foreseeable future” because of his remarks.
Any creative ideas to turn cancel culture against these bitchass media companies & their dickhead affiliates? It needs to make the impact on their pocketbook to comply with fascism higher than the cost to oppose.
Apple to ~~Australians~~everyone: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps
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break accessibility for no reason.
Is this a web post for ants?
They did that, too.
The lengths to which administrators have been willing to go also suggests their actions are not mere capitulation, but rather a strategic alignment with the Trump administration.
On March 5, nine Barnard students were arrested for staging a sit-in to demand the administration reverse the prior expulsions of three student activists. Soon after, Columbia updated its public safety protocols to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, on campus without a judicial warrant in the case of “exigent circumstances.”
Then, on March 8, Mahmoud Khalil, a recent master’s graduate who was a lead negotiator with the Columbia administration during the Gaza solidarity encampment, was detained by ICE.
Columbia never responded to his email pleading the university for protection the day before his detainment.
On March 11, Ranjani Srinivasan, an international graduate student whose visa was revoked by the Department of Homeland Security on the spurious charge of being “involved in activities supporting Hamas,” fled into hiding and eventually to Canada after Columbia withdrew her from her Ph.D. program and the university’s campus security allegedly allowed ICE into her apartment.
Two days later, Columbia allegedly allowed ICE into the dorm room of Yunseo Chung, a junior at Columbia who was arrested at a pro-Palestine protest.
That same day, 20 more students were expelled, including Grant Miner, the president of the student workers union.
The Trump administration had delivered what Katherine Franke, a Columbia faculty member forced into early retirement for her pro-Palestine views, called a “ransom note.”
It gave the university a week to, among other things, suspend or expel student activists, centralize disciplinary procedures in the Office of the Provost, implement severe restrictions on public assembly, adopt the definition of anti-Zionism as antisemitism, and impose administrative oversight of the Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies Department as well as the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the university’s Tel Aviv program.
Columbia not only acquiesced to all the demands of said letter, but exceeded Trump’s dictates by suspending faculty governance of the Center for Palestine Studies
Cowards & bitches lacking principles & integrity.
Pretty sure fractions are pure math & not metric or imperial.
Americans do be dumb AF, though.
Link to source, because screenshots of screenshots are inaccessible trash.
Yang botched it by chaining = wrong.
100 − 10 = 90 + 9 = 99
❌ cringe
100 − 10 = 90
90 + 9 = 99
✔️ based
How fitting the image in the post lacks alt text. 🤦
Not friendica, which seems an obvious facebook alternative.
Also, I think they're onto something with their fuck it approach that every social media platform would benefit from. The internet was mostly that before. Content moderation primarily serves advertisers, it was never really for the people. Old internet anarchy was chaotic fun.
The "totality and complex nature" is that they suck
and that they're shit. The system fucks up & amplifies the abuse.