Some great points here. Especially note 8, often overlooked. There will be some truly shitty people in Gaza. There will be some very lovely, gentle individuals in Israel (perhaps not as many as one would hope). Regardless, that does not give one group the right to dictate the fate of another.
University, though, is where one tends to get to know oneself and explore your own morals and beliefs by interacting with an expanded peer group from all backgrounds. It's almost a rite of passage and where you make your lifelong friends. In this respect, it does have value. Many people end up settling in the towns they attended uni. It's a breaking away from childhood and the comfort of home and learning to think for yourself. Universities are the opposite of schools when it comes to controlling thoughts, behaviours and narratives.
idk, universities more and more function within the system that feeds them and they've been pretty privatized, and with corporate capture of government, even their public funding is a vulnerability (as turns out). but the root of the protest seems indeed still at universities, admittedly.
Some great points here. Especially note 8, often overlooked. There will be some truly shitty people in Gaza. There will be some very lovely, gentle individuals in Israel (perhaps not as many as one would hope). Regardless, that does not give one group the right to dictate the fate of another.
University, though, is where one tends to get to know oneself and explore your own morals and beliefs by interacting with an expanded peer group from all backgrounds. It's almost a rite of passage and where you make your lifelong friends. In this respect, it does have value. Many people end up settling in the towns they attended uni. It's a breaking away from childhood and the comfort of home and learning to think for yourself. Universities are the opposite of schools when it comes to controlling thoughts, behaviours and narratives.
idk, universities more and more function within the system that feeds them and they've been pretty privatized, and with corporate capture of government, even their public funding is a vulnerability (as turns out). but the root of the protest seems indeed still at universities, admittedly.