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“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”

- Mark Twain

There are angels in New York, credence in expelling evil of the world, and a bunch of Americans who think they have the answers to it all.

The dawn of April 17th has caused for a great insurrection among the students at Columbia University. Amidst the lengthy year’s long conflict waged along the Gaza strip — a fortnight, and a massive and nasty righteous call. The main lawn of the university sits jam-packed with activists and Palestinian supporters, erecting tents to span the length of the field and signs to cover the wide variety of injustices that need be fixed. Loudly, contemptuously, and

angrily, these students demand the President of the University justify her stance against Palestine and do so with silver-bullet honesty in front of Congress.

While having the roots of some sit-in conjured by photographs of Washington during the Vietnam war, this protest seems to be nothing more than the ideas of activism poisoned with social image. The idea of this ‘Anti-Semitic’ rallying, according to The Post, is to freely express the ideas suppressed by the College’s council, who have repeatedly shut down the idea of turning Columbia University into Woodstock ’74.

On the sides of good and evil, right and wrong, Israel and Palestine, Columbia University and its student body have the red thumb of the world. Ready to stick up the ass of true injustice.

One could note the hypocrisy of the entire thing. Relying on the fact that a bunch of rich, soon-to-be branch managers and corporate drain heads have completely gone head-over about some place in the world you couldn’t pay em’ a million dollars to live in. Who mimic the ways of old activism only to be shown on the television as a novelty, a “Say Jerry, doesn’t this remind you of ‘72?” And who in mass, really only have about less than a dozen people who know what the fuck is going on in the joint.

That is also to mention the hypocrisy of the ‘Moral Barometer’ responsible for the whole freak out, being Columbia University’s council. The folks who have suppressed this imminent demonstration to its boil-over. Strangely enough, Columbia University sits in the echelon of schools with a majority liberal consensus, proudly, but isn’t allowing the press near the roaring

outcry.

“For every one conservative student, there are roughly 5.6 liberal students.”

- College Pulse, an article surveying the 2024 election.

The only fathomable explanation to all of this lies in the identity politics these two entities exist in. One, the student body, farther extreme, roots for the underling, and believes that big brother being the campus has gone beyond the constitutional law to zip, tape, and slap the mouths of its protestors. The other, the school, less extreme, roots on the side of its primary beneficiary, and sees the whole thing as bad press. Especially considering that the radical and moderates on the left side of the house haven’t agreed with each other since the whole 'Battle in the Desert' shebang kicked off.

Columbia University, now Super Bowl of world politics, is the weird and anxious terrarium of rich westerners.