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A university president makes a case against cowardice

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450 points pseudolus | 3 comments | 03 Apr 25 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.525s | source
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low_tech_love ◴[04 Apr 25 12:55 UTC] No.43581600[source]▶
Some personal highlights:

"They’re excellent schools, and they have excellent scientists, and if one of Vice-President Vance’s kids is sick, he’s going to want the doctor to have gone to one of these schools; he’s not going to want them to have gone to Viktor Orbán’s university."

"People have said to me, “Well, you take all that money from the government, why don’t you listen to them?” The answer is, because the money doesn’t come with a loyalty oath."

"I don’t have to agree with the mayor to get the fire department to come put out a fire. And that’s what they’re saying to these international students: “Well, you came to this country. What makes you think you can write an op-ed in the newspaper?” Well, what makes you think that is, this is a free country. "

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rendall[dead post] ◴[04 Apr 25 20:09 UTC] No.43587137[source]▶
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alsetmusic ◴[04 Apr 25 20:58 UTC] No.43587541[source]▶
Valuing Palestinian lives is not supporting terrorism.
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1. pstuart ◴[04 Apr 25 21:23 UTC] No.43587715[source]▶
Strongly agree. The problem is that Hamas represents them (illegitimately IMHO).

Thus you have a lot of Palestinian supporters advocating for Hamas, and that is effectively "supporting" terrorism.

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2. cultofmetatron ◴[04 Apr 25 21:30 UTC] No.43587786[source]▶
> Strongly agree. The problem is that Hamas represents them (illegitimately IMHO)

Thats a dangerous line of argument to make. Zionists work VERY hard to promote the idea that they represent all jews. I for one would take great offense to the idea that all jews are land stealing colonialist savages. Its just as dangerous to normalize the idea that hammas represents palestinians

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3. pstuart ◴[05 Apr 25 00:58 UTC] No.43589310[source]▶
I think you misunderstood me -- my point about Hamas is they hold the power over the Palestinians. They represent them as much as Trump represents me.