Columbia Expels Protesters : Mirror

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn’t this just cancel culture by the Right? The claim is that they are accused of “wrong think”.

To be clear, I support the students’ right to protest, and a lot of cancel culture “victims” were rightly shunned for shitty takes or bad behaviors.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

this goes beyond anything that could be described as "cancel culture".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Americans: please cancel our student debt

America: cancels your degree

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago

Fascists

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is it possible to check how many convicted thieves, rapists and/or murderers still hold their degrees? You know, just for fun, to see where their priorities are...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

I'd say check the nazis too but theyre more of the education by "faith" types than education by actual education.

In all seriousness though, has a US university ever stripped a nazi or holocaust denyer of their degree? Surely that ideology is just as, if not more harmful?

[–] Typotyper 18 points 1 month ago

Well trump still has his.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

How can you cancel a degree. It’s a proof of work and meeting requirements for graduation. You can’t “un-work” what they did.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

RIP Columbia university

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It sounds like it's a shit hole anyway.

[–] explodicle 7 points 1 month ago

Now we know that a degree from there after 2029 means they support genocide.

[+] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any better sources?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Search engines are pretty cool just so you know...

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/columbia-university-protest-expulsions-suspension/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/03/13/columbia-expels-and-pulls-degrees-for-some-students-who-occupied-building-during-pro-palestinian-protests/

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You posted it

Never mind you didnt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I posted it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Be best

[+] [email protected] -18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think there are some cases, not these 22 students of course, but some cases that do warrant revoking a degree over moral implications. I'm rarely one to agree with blanket statements.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Imo such cases would be when someone can prove that you didn’t earn your degree honestly, or when you have amassed a history of academic dishonesty after the fact. But personally I don’t think crimes (even murder) should result in you losing your degree.

[+] [email protected] -70 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why does it depend on how they were protesting? Why is violence relevant to a university degree in the first place?

A degree should only be revoked in the case of cheating or other cases of gross scientific missconduct relating to said degree, no?

For example, I think the unabomber was a terrible human being, but his crimes should be handled by the police. Not by the uneversites he worked for or got his degree from.

This very much resembles some sort of social credit system.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

You're speaking to a right-winger, a master of hypocrisy and doublethink. Don't wear out your keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Innocent until proven guilty. No one should be expelled from ANY school for protesting.

Only until they have been found guilty of the crimes you mentioned.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is exactly how I think it should be, unless they have substantial evidence to show they were violently protesting, there should be no repercussions for doing so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Revoke the J6 insurrectionists, got it

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Palestine under attack: s'all good man

Not liking it: hold on now, let's take a closer look at why you dislike a genocide

[–] ayyy 3 points 1 month ago

Oh my stars, the decorum!

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