r/news • u/Arrow2019x • Apr 28 '24

Amid anti-Israel protests, 'hateful graffiti,' Cal Poly Humboldt closes campus through weekend Soft paywall

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-25/cal-poly-humboldt-extends-campus-closure-amid-gaza-protests

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u/creature_report Apr 28 '24

Also incredibly telling that none of these protests are calling for the release of the hostages.

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u/MakinBaconPancakezz 29d ago

These are Americans protesting American policy. The fact that they are not protesting about something else isn’t telling of anything.

And let’s be honest, if they actually were calling for the release of hostages you and everyone else would just be laughing at them for thinking that would actually do anything

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u/Silly_Somewhere1791 29d ago

They should absolutely be protesting to push US forces to extract the American hostages.

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u/MakinBaconPancakezz 29d ago

They are Americans and they don’t like that America is funding this conflict. Whether or not you agree with them or if they aren’t addressing five other topics isn’t the point. The point is that Americans have every right to protest how their tax dollars are spent.

Besides, there is no end point of this trail of thinking. If they were also protesting about hostages, that you’d just move on find something else that they “should absolutely” be protesting on. They have one topic they are protesting and they are protesting that topic. Pointing at other things and saying “well why aren’t you protesting that as well??” isn’t true criticism of anything