• JonEFive@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    As long as they’re peaceful, then pretty much, yes. A state university where the land is publicly owned (government “owned” property), it sounds like they were exercising their rights to assemble, speak, and petition the government…

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      7 months ago

      But they weren’t peaceful, that’s the issue. The whole reason the university went in was because the protestors were putting other students at risk, more specifically, Jewish students.

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        7 months ago

        They weren’t? Cool, show me some videos of protesters attacking or threatening Jewish students.

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        6 months ago

        From what I’ve heard since then, there was some vandalism / breaking and entering going on. I haven’t heard about any violence directed at people, but if they’re breaking into buildings, it is reasonable to stop them. If they were all just peacefully (meaning non-violent, not necessarily quiet) camped out on the quad, then I would say the govt had do right to remove them.