Megha Vemuri called out MIT for having research ties with the Israeli army and "aiding and abetting" the country with its "assault on the Palestinian people."
  • @[email protected]
    26•2 months ago

    Self censoring is not the answer… Come on MIT, you know better.

    Well, now that I say that, MIT has a not perfect track record when it comes to legal matters and policy decisions. I think of Aaron Swartz for instance…

    • @[email protected]
      8•2 months ago

      Research needs money for happening. You need to pay researchers, structures, various staff. Even more so a fancy structure as MIT

      Israel (and American Zionists) have the power to cancel a sizeable amount of research contracts with MIT. (AIPAC shows how well organised they are, originally for defence from antisemitism, now for defence from… Palestine? I guess? 🤷‍♂️ )

      Then for MIT (that is a corporation like another) comes to damage control. On one hand PR, on the other money.

      MIT took the money, Stanford (in the case of DEI) took the PR.

      I am still 100% sure neither of the two can give a damn of Palestinians, Israel or DEI. It’s just MBA stuff 🤷‍♂️

      (I have my opinions on the situation in Palestine but I don’t want this post to be about that)

    • BakkodaEnglish
      48•2 months ago

      DARPA money is a hell of a drug?

      I have no idea if this is a real thing or not.

  • acargitz
    13•2 months ago

    First they ignore you,

    then they laugh at you,

    then they fight you, <-- you are here

    then you win.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness
    151•2 months ago

    “We encourage students inquiry and critical thinking” “no not like that!”

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 months ago

      Calling other people (all the more, a nation as a whole) names - is not critical thinking.

      Presenting biased rhethorics (all the more, not in a neutral manner, but emotionally loaded claims) and ommitting any contradicting points - has nothing to do with critical thinking.

      Opinions vs facts. One-sided accusing vs rational thinking. 💁

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
        3•2 months ago

        Yeah no. Calling Nazis Nazi is a perfectly rational take. One does not to condemn an active genocide “in a neutral manner,” neither do Nazis deserve neutrality.

        • @[email protected]
          3•2 months ago

          They’re just here trolling. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Israel’s finance minister said they intend to “entirely destroy” Gaza, and the English language has a word for “something you entirely destroy by fire”: it’s ‘holocaust’.

          So, I think we should trigger this guy more by using the term in the original, objective sense:

          This genocide, to which all current supporters of the Zionist state of Israel are party, is intentionally making a holocaust of Gaza.

          ETA: Let the record reflect that the denial of any genocide when shown such irrefutable evidence, — whether the Holocaust against Poles, Jews and others of the 40s, or this genocide of Palestinians — makes you party to its crimes.

  • @[email protected]English
    14•2 months ago

    Whenever I try to believe things aren’t bad and that I am delusional for learning how to gun, stuff like this happens. My hopes for a peaceful and boring future are dying.

  • @[email protected]English
    59•2 months ago

    Kinda brilliant on the class president’s part - still give the speech and get the media coverage for it, but do it before commencement so they’re less likely to steal your diploma as a result.

  • @[email protected]
    13•2 months ago

    Wow that’s pathetic, so theres no distinction left between MIT and that Bible belt shit hole university that didn’t let a student graduate after she came out as gay

  • @[email protected]
    67•2 months ago

    “You showed the world that MIT wants a free Palestine”.

    “You called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and you stood in solidarity with the pro-Palestine activists on campus. You faced threats, intimidation, and suppression coming from all directions, especially your own university officials, but you prevailed because the MIT community that I know would never tolerate a genocide."

    “Right now, while we prepare to graduate and move forward with our lives, there are no universities left in Gaza…We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it.”

    “This means that Israel’s assault on the Palestinian people is not only aided and abetted by our country, but our school. As scientists, engineers, academics, and leaders, we have a commitment to support life, support aid efforts, and call for an arms embargo, and keep demanding, now as alumni, that MIT cuts the ties,"

  • FundMECFS
    17•2 months ago

    These universities largely deserve their Trump funding cuts.