Spanning the Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, such repression has been decades in the making.
In short, in the spring semester of 2024, many of our campuses came to resemble armed camps.But don’t think it all only happened this spring. In reality, it’s an edifice that’s been decades in the making, spanning the George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden administrations. Some years ago, in the wake of Occupy Wall Street, I wrote a step-by-stepto how the original homeland security campus was created. Let me now offer an updated manual on the workings of Repress U.
Over the course of the academic year, the student movement has been elevated, at least rhetorically speaking, to the level of a national security threat — one which has figured prominently in White Housethe latest round of congressional inquisitions. “American universities are officially put on notice that we have come to take our universities back. No stone must go unturned while buildings are being defaced, campus greens are being captured, or graduations are being ruined.
At UCLA, on the night of April 30th, a gang of anti-Palestinian militants, wearing white masks and bearing blunt instruments and incendiary devices, were permitted tothe school’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment for more than three hours before public officials felt compelled to take action. At least 16 serious injuries were“At first, I couldn’t understand why,” reported one eyewitness to the bloodshed.
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