Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours.
But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university. Alwan and other students were being suspended after their arrests at the “ Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” a tactic colleges across the country have deployed to calm growing campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
The students’ plight has become a central part of protests, with students and a growing number of faculty demanding their amnesty. At issue is whether universities and law enforcement will clear the charges and withhold other consequences, or whether the suspensions and legal records will follow students into their adult lives.
You asked if it is just to be jailed for protesting genocide.
I said yes, you didn’t ask is it right for these students to be jailed.
People like to use questions that are extremely vague in conjunction with subjects that are related, but not as strongly as the questioned asked.
That is bullshit wordgamery and I will call it out
Such transparent dogshit on display here xD you insist that they define basic words like “jailed” and “peaceful” and “protest” , and accuse them of “wordgamery” bc you can’t understand the basic English words they’re saying. Just letting you know nobody is falling for this, you’re just making yourself look stupid by acting like others’ words are utterly incomprehensible when it’s obviously not :3
How is it ever just to be jailed for protesting genocide. Maybe it is while sometimes, if you do something illegal in conjunction with it. The act itself isn’t illegal though, so getting arrested for it is unjust.
Like I said, what I consider a protest, others might not.
So yeah, it depends on your definitions