MIT bans class president from graduation commencement after pro-Palestinian speech
MIT bans class president from graduation commencement after pro-Palestinian speech
"We encourage students inquiry and critical thinking" "no not like that!"
Calling other people (all the more, a nation as a whole) names - is not critical thinking.
Presenting biased rhethorics (all the more, not in a neutral manner, but emotionally loaded claims) and ommitting any contradicting points - has nothing to do with critical thinking.
Opinions vs facts. One-sided accusing vs rational thinking. 💁
MIT? !!! WHAT THE FUCK?
DARPA money is a hell of a drug?
I have no idea if this is a real thing or not.
If there's one thing I know: any string of random words is likely a project studied or funded by DARPA.
MIT team receives $10.4 million biomanufacturing grant from DARPA With the grant, MIT’s Biomanufacturing Research Program aims to develop new technologies that can rapidly manufacture biologic drugs on the battlefield.
https://news.mit.edu/2013/biomanufacturing-research-program-grant-0918
So, yeah, DARPA money for drugs is a drug for MIT.
Old article. But... There's lots out there.
AIPAC pressure.
I'm sure a lot of questions would be answered by checking the universities donations.
Research needs money for happening. You need to pay researchers, structures, various staff. Even more so a fancy structure as MIT
Israel (and American Zionists) have the power to cancel a sizeable amount of research contracts with MIT. (AIPAC shows how well organised they are, originally for defence from antisemitism, now for defence from… Palestine? I guess? 🤷♂️ )
Then for MIT (that is a corporation like another) comes to damage control. On one hand PR, on the other money.
MIT took the money, Stanford (in the case of DEI) took the PR.
I am still 100% sure neither of the two can give a damn of Palestinians, Israel or DEI. It’s just MBA stuff 🤷♂️
(I have my opinions on the situation in Palestine but I don’t want this post to be about that)
"You showed the world that MIT wants a free Palestine".
“You called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and you stood in solidarity with the pro-Palestine activists on campus. You faced threats, intimidation, and suppression coming from all directions, especially your own university officials, but you prevailed because the MIT community that I know would never tolerate a genocide."
“Right now, while we prepare to graduate and move forward with our lives, there are no universities left in Gaza..We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it.”
“This means that Israel’s assault on the Palestinian people is not only aided and abetted by our country, but our school. As scientists, engineers, academics, and leaders, we have a commitment to support life, support aid efforts, and call for an arms embargo, and keep demanding, now as alumni, that MIT cuts the ties,"
Kinda brilliant on the class president's part - still give the speech and get the media coverage for it, but do it before commencement so they're less likely to steal your diploma as a result.
You would think that a college would know that the Palestinian people are not Hamas and the Palestinians are the ones being genocided by Israel so that tRump can build a golf course. MIT certainly doesn't have the brightest. Maybe the most cowardice.
Cowardice, stupidity and lack of emotional curiosity is what makes you a postigious place.
Massachusetts Institute of Terror
Self censoring is not the answer... Come on MIT, you know better.
Well, now that I say that, MIT has a not perfect track record when it comes to legal matters and policy decisions. I think of Aaron Swartz for instance...
Would they ban the person if it was a pro Israel speech?
If no, then the school admins can fuck right off
Too late. Megha Vemuri already exposed MIT and is a star with her Andor-level speech.
Strisand effect for sure!
For this?
Great that she spoke out but... Honey, where the fuck did you think you got accepted four years ago? MIT loves war.
edit: horny beavers hot for big missiles!
These universities largely deserve their Trump funding cuts.
Alot of them are tied to Israel to develop their tech
Whenever I try to believe things aren't bad and that I am delusional for learning how to gun, stuff like this happens. My hopes for a peaceful and boring future are dying.
Wow that's pathetic, so theres no distinction left between MIT and that Bible belt shit hole university that didn't let a student graduate after she came out as gay
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, <-- you are here
then you win.
The speech in question https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKSH7wJiqYK/
Wow, that's a lot of hatred against a country and a nation. "Genoside" claims, several times. Still no mentions of how this yet another war started on the 7th of October. 🤦
No one is upset that Israel wanted to do something about being attacked, but what’s happening is so wildly disproportionate. If hamas did that in any other country and that country decided to go full scorched earth in retaliation no one would support that yet somehow a single attack justifies what’s going on now?? If someone eggs your house do you hunt them down, burn down their house, kill them then do the same to all their relatives?? No obvious that’s insane and that’s essentially what’s happening here, the attack was wrong but two wrongs do not make a right and the force of the response is so far above uncalled for
What happened the 5th of October, do you even know?
Hearts and minds
As in the best places to shoot... right? /s
Two in the heart, one in the mind
A terrible decision from MIT.
Welcome to the united snake land of the thiefs, home of the slaves
That wasn't already a commencement speech?
Couldn’t have been worse than the cringefest speech Hank Green gave that’s for sure
make a list of all these fascists. people must not forget those who stood firmly on the side of genocide.
edit: you don't need to make distinguishing marks on their clothes when they're already wearing the swastika armband. "oh please don't mistreat the fascists, that makes you a fascist!"
make a list of all these fascists.
Is that your next suggestion, omg: "Let them wear special distinguishing marks on their clothes too. Like, some kind of a star sign"?!
/S
That's seriously creepy, dude.
fucking yes. if you allow fascists and collaborators to just dust off their hands and pretend nothing happened once the regime comes down, you're just setting the timer back until the next fascist regime.
they're collaborating with the regime now, and once it's gone, they will all have always opposed it.
no. you have to remember all of them. no quarter for fascists. no excuse for collaborators.
Why not make a safe for work pro-Ukraine speech?
Yes why use your platform to bring attention to a genocide in an aperthide state, at great risk to you when you can just step in line and bend the knee to appease some cunts
Because Russia bad, Israel good.
Fucking even MIT gone mega what fhe fuck.
Desperate to prove their fascist bona fides in the hopes of retaining funding. It will come back to bite them. There's no winning way to play this game but there's and honorable and a dishonorable way.
Is Harvard the only big boy that stepped up? There has to be more, right?
MIT owns the majority of the nonvoting shares in Bose. They don't need funding.
Why isn’t the slippery politician like position to just say: we are not responsible for the free thought of our graduates or their opinions, nor are we able to bypass the system of accreditation our student earned their education through. Only departments and professors are allowed to award credit for work, and the the administrators do not govern the integrity of their educational success.
MIT is deep in bed with the MIC. Their administration is not friendly towards Arabs unless those Arabs have a line of credit with Boeing or Raytheon.
Whats the MIC?
Most big colleges have helped evict and deport people on studen visas. They cooperate and are complicit.
I'm betting it wouldn't be difficult to find links between MITs research and development labs and weapons and technologies companies involved in Gaza.
Societies are sometimes like big interconnected machines, large parts become complicit in denial, repression, and destruction.
Edit: yep, as expected:
P.S That drone swarm technology is part of why 83% of American doctors who have provided care in Gaza, have reported treating children for being shot in the head. Source: NPR's The American Life.
What the fuck.
"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
...
War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit."
General Smedley Butler - War is a Racket (1935)
I wonder if these scientists graduating and working for tech that is used for genocide, do they question their research has resulted in deaths of people or they try to rationalize it
MIT didn't "go maga". They are intrinsically tied to government contracts.
Basically all STEM research at the university level is funded by a mixture of corporate and government interests. Even NSF grants (remember when those were a thing...) tend to focus on areas that anyone with a keen eye can see having military applications. One of my favorites was the massive push for graph analytics 10 or 15 years back and people not realizing that was a roundabout way of saying "analyze social media".
MIT in particular is VERY dependent on this because they need to be "elite". Smaller state universities can shuffle money around and focus on other funding sources, to a degree. MIT can't because their staff inherently have good networks and would jump ship the moment their perks start going away.
Contrast that with Harvard where they still get lots of "donations" from rich and powerful lawyers (and politicians) and where the publicity for "fighting the government" can heavily offset all the international students getting put in a concentration camp before their checks clear.
Okay, but on a timeline measured in years instead of quarters, it's really fucking stupid to punish the factory that churns out engineers for your war machines, right? The government funds STEM education, yielding STEM experts, yielding STEM productivity. Stop funding it, stop making STEM experts, vastly reduce STEM productivity. Pair this with massive reductions on immigrants (and torch the economy to lower desire to come here also) and how does this not lead to brain drain dark ages and empire collapse?
Is it more complicated than this? Am I missing something? Because usually when somebody thinks that everybody else is a fucking moron, they are the fucking moron, and I'm worried that maybe I'm just such a dumb fucking moron that I can't see what a dumb fucking moron I am.
I majored in Anthropology in college. I remember watching a documentary about Napoleon Chagnon's ethnographic study of the Yanomami (a hunting-gathering people in the Amazon) and being surprised about the notice at the beginning stating that his research had been funded by the Atomic Energy Commission. Turns out that many ethnographies from the '50s and '60s were funded by the AEC because they just wanted baseline physiological data on peoples who had not yet been exposed to large amounts of radiation and environmental nuclear byproducts. The actual study of their cultures was a byproduct.
I feel that these ethnographies are an absolutely precious resource as they reveal so much about how our ancestors lived a lifestyle that has completely vanished now, but it's still kind of depressing to think about where they came from.
The Democratic Party platform is explicitly pro-genocide.
It's not like the gop is different
You don’t know the half of it…