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The protest was organized by a student group ActNow4Palestine. They are demanding the University to divest from BlackRock, an asset manager company.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Same college kids would be prosecuted in Gaza for their progressive lifestyle choices.
Colleges and universities fail to teach critical thinking skills to their students, fail to educate them in national and world history. Grievance politics is the sole focus. So “group think” prevails, with social media determining the popular causes to champion.
It all makes sense when you realize it’s all antiwhite and has nothing to do with values or policies or moral principles. It is raw antiwhite animus. It’s really that simple. They’ll always support the antiwhite group over the white group because white is at the bottom. Only when you get into the ‘white’ category can you start to differentiate between ‘white male’ and everyone else. People are wrongly suggesting this is antisemitism, when it is not. It is antiwhite and these stupid college students are being like Stalin once said, “When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us… Read more »
If so, that’s a lot of white kids indulging in self-disgust. Nope, I think many of these college students closely follow social media, adhere to social messaging, and don’t consider actual political ethics of their so-called rallying chants.
These protests are another form of social activity, another opportunity to virtue-signal their adherence to social media norms, another chance to meet-up with friends.
You are one of the most poignant commenter here and I enjoy reading all of your comments, but it’s wishful thinking to believe these kids don’t really know what they are saying and doing. These students are adults. They know. The exactly one video of the moron 20 year old girl saying “why are we here?” makes for clicks in conservative media (as do the same types of one-off videos mocking conservatives at Trump rallies exist too). These children have been indoctrinated for 20 years in anti-white hate, and they have parents who are sympathetic to this belief system. It… Read more »
Permanently expel them all. Have some balls
Free Palestine is BLM repackaged- these keffiyeh-draped undergrads don’t even know what they are protesting.
Look at some of their nose-ringed comrades at NYU admitting they don’t know why there are protesting:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/student-protester-nyu-appears-unaware-why-she-is/
Agree—-well funded/set-up/”events” similar to BLM and Antifa.
Chief Illiniwek is weeping.