r/InternationalNews • u/Passervore • Apr 24 '24

Opinion/Analysis Biden launches police-state crackdown at US universities

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/24/vcgw-a24.html
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u/ALittleBitOffBoop Apr 24 '24

So wait a minute, in America, peaceful student protest leads to arrest but the US promoting and instigating students in sovereign countries to commit extreme violence (molotov cocktails, setting cars and buildings on fire, etc) are to be encouraged and lauded? American government truly is the definition of duplicity

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u/HogarthTheMerciless Apr 24 '24 edited Apr 24 '24

I'm just waiting for all the freeze peach conservatives to come out and defend this clear violation since they've argued time and again that not being allowed to speak on stage at college campuses is a violation of free speech... any day now right? 

Edit: not a clear violation of free speech, but neither is conservatives being deplatformed or not being allowed to speak at college campuses. To be clear you don't have the right to a platform, but that doesn't stop conservatives from complaining about it when they don't get access to one, and I won't be holding my breath waiting for them to apply their own logic to pro palestine voices. Read lawyer comment below me for breakdown of free speech laws and how they apply.

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u/ADKtuary Apr 24 '24

Not a conservative, but yes, sane people in the US tend to denounce most things this regime does.