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826 - University Challenge feat. Basil Zacharia Rodriguez (4/23/24)
🕑 Added 2024-04-23 20:21:48 +0000 UTCWill interviews Basil Zacharia Rodriguez, an activist and student at Columbia University involved with Columbia Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) about the ongoing demonstrations taking place there. They discuss the goals of the protests, the media response, and the University’s economic interests in both Palestinian occupation and displacing New Yorkers in Harlem.
Then, Amber and Felix join to continue the discussion of the media freak-out over campus activism, as well as the trial of Donald Trump, and two reading series exploring the sexual pathologies of Spectator columnists and Rabbi Shmuley.
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Comments
Sam Zeng
The opportunism of the US left in the last 10 years has not gone well. We have been jumping from movement to movement with less success each time. From Bernie to BLM, to now Palestine. Maybe we need to sit on our fat asses and shut up for a while. Yes support Palestine but as a means to stop the massacre but not opportunistically think or idealize the Palestinian struggle as a boarder left struggle. Hamas is very conservative, Islamic party and we need to be clear about that. They don't share our politics. Lets be for real, these Colombia students are the Blinkens of the future. They will end up in the State department, NGOs or wall street. They will conform to those institutions and not change it from within. Just look at how AOC ended up being just another democrat and holding the party line on the current issue when just a few years ago being the darling of Jacobin. We have to reflect a little and not just react.
bruce moment
It's pretty funny that you morons here will whinge about the Aesthetic Politics etc of campus protests while 1. Sitting on your fat ass at home and 2. Observing very clearly that it definitely really really pisses off the people who run this shit, which obviously indicates it matters. I'm also so over Amber's holier than thou "proletarian" sensibility, where everyone must be rubbing two sticks together for heat at night or else they're a sub adequate Revolutionary Subject or whatever the fuck. Incredibly jaundiced view of uhhh reality!
Vivian Irby
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