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xocetaceans

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5. Let's see how they are said to have described the video that they are said not to have watched:
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 02:50 PM
Saturday
"...because they refused to watch a controversial antisemitism training video that they said was biased in favor of Israel, contained factual inaccuracies and could inflame campus tension over Gaza."


It seems moronically stupid to protest in this manner. Instead, watch the video, preserve your options, and protest its content (or better still the conflict) in an informed manner (having actually seen the video) from that point on. This is just as stupid as throwing the vote to Trump because Harris/Biden was just too unpalatable. Somehow, it could not be understood that Trump/Vance would be infinitely worse vis-à-vis Gaza. This sort of idiotic protest is essentially what gave Netanyahu carte blanche not to stop short of complete defeat of Hamas in Gaza, no matter how many are killed incidentally along the way.

This protest is just kicking and screaming "I will not comply!" and asserting a fig leaf of "not being complicit". Stupid. Watching a video hardly makes one complicit. The only reason not to watch such a video and to take the resistance to this level immediately is if one actually does not think that one's case has enough merit on its own to withstand whatever is in the video.

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