"the student is now the teacher"

Sending out RESIST™ fundraising emails while voting to defund universities that don’t line up with genocide is some bullshit. Our lawmakers are obviously terrified of college students. Two administrations in a row would physically attack them for voicing opinions about their tuitions funding genocide. Every corporate news network and both political parties have been all in for Israel for close to three years. And yet look where public opinion is now. Students seem to have had more influence on what people really think than those “in power”. Defunding education was always part of the neoliberal plan. “Run the country like a business.” Defund a thing until it can’t function anymore, and then ask, “Why are we giving taxpayer money to this worthless program?” Follow the students’ example and speak up. If you’ve spent the past few years publicly entertaining the possibility that certain religions, ethnicities, genders or sexual preferences maybe don’t quite deserve the same rights as you…

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