@BenRossTransit@bradweed@Alon There are plenty of ostracizers who don't use such a narrow definition. That's overgeneralizing, at best. Hell, there are people who both ostracize and believe in a two-state solution. It's not mutually exclusive.
Might as well condemn Khamenei's statement while I'm at it, I guess.
@Arianity@BenRossTransit@bradweed Which ones are you thinking of? Because PACBI specifically said they're boycotting Standing Together on the grounds that they're engaging in normalization, SJP celebrated the 7.10 massacres, major speakers brought by the encampment protesters defended the massacres... and note that all of these groups consider two states to be Zionism, as seen in some common chants ("we don't want no two states").
I'm half-way through Wes Marshall's Killed by a Traffic Engineer. A terrific book, very readable despite the inherently dry subject matter, and lots of information new to me as someone who has given the topic a lot of attention. (Still, I have to admit it isn't competing well for my attention today against the Stormy Daniels testimony.) https://islandpress.org/books/killed-traffic-engineer#desc
Thought-experiment relevant (although of course not perfectly identical) to current campus protests.
Imagine defenders of southern culture camped out on the college green, devoting the vast majority of their time to scholarly rebuttals of the history curriculum's denigration of Robert E. Lee and John C. Calhoun & loud chants of slogans that favorably remember them. Only occasionally do participants yell epithets, some overtly racist & some referring to DEI, at Black students walking by.
but IF you are an undergrad at Columbia, THEN it is highly likely that you come from an upper middle class or wealthy background
now it is possible - I have no knowledge here - that the demonstrators are a non random sample of undergrads, and that the demonstrators are more likely to be middle or working class
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@BenRossTransit It's probably a representative sample, judging by what I saw when I was there in 2006-11. And, in turn, working-class anti-Semites exist in droves off-campus, they're just not as likely to be noticed as when an editor of the Harvard law review beats up a Jewish student.
ah, its all good
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I used to have an account with a similar name on mastodon.social and due to the intemperate nature of my toots, the account was blocked so maybe you are seeing some odd glitch left over from that ?
or maybe you blocked that account, and the software is having trouble with the same username on diff instances ?
The 1968 protests at Columbia were aimed against the university's plan for a gym in Morningside Park as much as, or more than, the Vietnam War. This was part of a nation-wide SDS campaign against university expansion, from which today's left-nimbyism largely originated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Columbia_University_protests
@Alon Jane Jacobs specifically endorsed this plan in Death & Life:
"Columbia University is taking a constructive step by planning sports facilities--for both the unniversity and the neighborhood--in Morningside Park."
The plan was initially welcomed by people in Harlem. The park was decrepit & crime-ridden.
@BenRossTransit (I'm seeing two more replies to you, and one more to me, that I can't see on Fedi. Who's writing those replies? It's not a block or a mute because I don't see them in private browsing either. Is Mastodon randomly hiding accounts again?)
Even for aficionados, this SF nimby story is way over the top.
Homeowner wants to raise roof 7.25 ft, add top story, put apt for parents on ground floor. Has spent $250,000 & doesn't have a permit yet.
4 neighbors appealed planners' OK to City Council.
One lives in a $7.4M 5,100-sq-ft glass-walled teardown. (Appeal says house is historic & should stay intact.)
Another, an ex-developer, doubled size of his own house next door 8 years ago, moved to Boston, now rents it out. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/san-francisco-home-renovation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk0.HKni.pi8Wg-BpLMqa&smid=url-share
Ode to the urban tree says we must stop cutting them down & then notes in passing that "Here in Nashville, we actually have a tree-protection ordinance, though it doesn’t apply to duplexes or single-family homes."
Did you consider that maybe this ordinance is about keeping apartments out, not keeping trees in? And that the effect of such an ordinance would be to cut more trees down to build 1-family houses in the suburbs? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/opinion/trees-cities-earth-day.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mU0._K74.gjhPUK5E2e-J&smid=url-share
In one figure: Why affordable housing should whenever possible be built in places where you don't need a car.
And also why a person with below-median income will usually come out ahead financially if a new transit line lets them live without a car, even if it raises their rent a whole lot. https://www.bts.dot.gov/data-spotlight/household-cost-transportation-it-affordable
Coal is the source of marginal electricity supply in the mid-Atlantic states. That means that electric cars driven there are coal-powered & emit more greenhouse gases than gasoline-powered cars. https://wapo.st/3JjUN2f
A tangent, but: it sometimes strikes me how much we as a country stepped up to support jobs for coal workers as demand for coal dwindled, and then how we did nothing to support jobs for journalists as the internet took a hammer to their industry. And if the article is right, in a twist of fate, now the internet runs on coal.