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Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

May 15 • 19 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

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The Princeton protestors have to be some of saddest/funniest of all.

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First, they leaked documents (adapted from Columbia) outlining their plans and strategy before they even started:
nationalreview.com/news/princeton…

Then they set up an encampment…

…only to take it down five minutes later after being threatened with arrest:

Next they occupied Clio Hall with faculty members…

But the faculty members left before getting arrested and at least one later called herself a “non-participant observer”:

The students were immediately arrested:
nationalreview.com/news/chaos-at-…

https://twitter.com/abigailandwords/status/1785720305031295373

In the aftermath, they shut down the “Black Princeton” group chat after messages were leaked to @abigailandwords and on Reddit:
nationalreview.com/2024/05/the-sa…

https://twitter.com/abigailandwords/status/1785720305031295373

As the encampment continued, they began a hunger strike:

They were not allowed to have tents, BTW, and public safety even took down a tarp they had strung up:

So they were forced to sleep under tarps on the ground, sometimes in the rain.

They made Blair Witch Project clips updating their status:

Meanwhile, they infamously complained that Princeton wasn’t checking their vitals even though they were shaking and immunocompromised:

They did have supporters, though. Several non-participant observer faculty at Princeton wrote letters and op-eds, while others joined the hunger strikers for a 24-hour fast:

It turned out to be a “rotary hunger strike” (probably after the original strikers saw the faculty go out for brunch on Saturday):

Finally, President Eisgruber said the encampment had to end and made some shameful concessions that were still totally unsatisfactory to the protestors.

When admin showed up the next day to discuss clearing the camp, the students put out a call for their fellow students to encircle the camp but no one came.

Today they announced the hunger strike is over, noting the university administration has “been forced to tone down their violent rhetoric.”

And while they have events planned for today, the encampment is expected to be shut down as the university plans for year-end activities.

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1790853833439994012

Their parting message:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1790853833439994012

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Steve McGuire

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“The rote incantations of a state religion.”

This is an incredible exposé of academic DEI.

It confirms so many things critics of DEI have been saying for years.

Better late than never, NYT!

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And the NYT gives the signal. It’s officially over for the campus protestors in the court of public opinion:

“The pro-Palestinian group that sparked the student encampment movement at Columbia University in response to the Israel-Hamas war is becoming more hard-line in its rhetoric, openly supporting militant groups fighting Israel and rescinding an apology it made after one of its members said the school was lucky he wasn’t out killing Zionists.”

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🧵NEW: Claremont students marked Oct 7 by occupying and vandalizing a building at Pomona College.

They disrupted classes and injured a public safety officer.

A Jewish girl said she was trapped inside and too afraid to try to leave.

Others escaped through a second floor window:

This is what the Jewish girl said: “We couldn’t leave because they were in the building blocking the doors and everything. I wasn’t going to walk through the middle of it… I wouldn’t have felt very safe walking through hundreds of people yelling things that [I] especially as a Jewish student don’t align with or feel safe around.”

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Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

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Examples of American college faculty and students who expressed their support for terrorism on the anniversary of October 7.

Please add others than I’m missing in the replies.

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Penn:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1843457040338870420

Swarthmore:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1843457040338870420

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@sfmcguire79

Oct 2

🧵Harvard asked its students, faculty, and teaching staff about their comfort discussing controversial issues on campus.

The results show that faculty/staff are more fearful than students.

68% of faculty/staff said they would be reluctant to speak up outside the classroom.

Only 38% of students said the same — that they would be reluctant to speak up during a discussion of a controversial issue outside the classroom.

Alarmingly, just over half (51%) of Harvard faculty and teaching staff said they would be reluctant to lead a class discussion on a controversial topic.

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Steve McGuire

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This guy is one of the lead protestors at Cornell.

When the student government denied his group’s divestment resolution, he and others vowed to repeatedly disrupt the campus, which they did.

He was suspended last year too.

Looks like Cornell might be done messing around.