White Liberalism on Campus Silencing Anti-Genocide Dissent (Part 2) Episode 009

In this episode, we continue our conversation about Columbia University and the corporate administration (and faculty) attack on students’ liberties to do what youth are supposed to do in higher education: Think critically. Protesting injustices, freedom of expression, liberties to speak against prevailing norms, questioning authority and other counterculture acts are all hallmarks of the student experience. Unfortunately, academia fostering critical thinking is often falsely promoted by the corporate wing of academia to entice prospective “clients”, but students quickly learn that when they protest accepted discrimination within the university, they are shut down. Protesting the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians and their own university’s complicity has become a taboo, and not even the physical danger endured by protestors by counter-protestors is enough to make academia’s status quo question their own racial biases.