{"id":2234901,"date":"2024-05-01T18:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T22:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-pro-palestine-campus-protesters-are-a-bunch-of-childish-cosplaying-phonies\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T18:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T22:59:55","slug":"why-the-pro-palestine-campus-protesters-are-a-bunch-of-childish-cosplaying-phonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-pro-palestine-campus-protesters-are-a-bunch-of-childish-cosplaying-phonies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immaturity of Pro-Palestine Campus Protestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-the-pro-palestine-campus-protesters-are-a-bunch-of-childish-cosplaying-phonies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2234901&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summary\u2063 discusses the events surrounding the riots in Baltimore in \u2064late April 2015\u2064 following\u200c Freddie Gray&#8217;s death in police custody. It highlights the\u2064 impact on the\u200c Black Lives \u2062Matter movement, the response of the then-mayor, and the \u200dimplications of giving space for destruction. The summary also touches on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tufts-student-government-attacks-jewish-member-for-defending-israel\/\" title=\"Tufts Student Government Attacks Jewish Member for Defending Israel\">recent incidents<\/a> at universities involving protesters and the consequences\u2063 they faced. The \u200csummary\u200c delves \u2064into \u200cthe\u2064 Baltimore riots of \u200clate April 2015 after Freddie Gray&#8217;s death in police custody,\u200b influencing the Black Lives Matter movement. It\u2064 emphasizes\u200c the mayor&#8217;s response and\u2063 the repercussions of allowing destruction. Recent \u2064university incidents\u2063 involving\u2063 protesters\u200d and their ensuing repercussions are also\u200d addressed.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in late April of 2015, almost exactly nine years ago, riots erupted in Baltimore, Maryland, over the demise of a career criminal named Freddie Gray, who died while in police custody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Few people remember his name today, but at the time he was the most recently canonized BLM saint, and the guy whose death everyone was pretending to mourn. The most memorable thing about that moment in history isn\u2019t Freddie Gray himself, or even the riots, but what the then-mayor of the city said the day after, as the media put it, \u201cpeaceful protests took a violent turn.\u201d Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stood in front of news cameras and told the world that she had decided to give \u201cthose who wished to destroy space to do that as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By her own testimony, she had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-ag-launches-police-shooting-investigation-teams-to-probe-officer-involved-killings\/\" title=\"California AG Launches \u2018Police Shooting Investigation Teams\u2019 To Probe Officer-Involved Killings\">instructed law enforcement<\/a> to stand by and give rioters space to destroy their community. To let off some steam and vent their frustrations by committing crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time it was shocking that a political leader would openly allow that kind of behavior \u2014 and even admit that she was allowing it. It also cast the riots in an even more bizarrely childish light. The rioters were like children having a temper tantrum in the grocery store, and the mayor was the overly lenient, push-over parent allowing the scene to continue. But as Mayor Rawlings-Blake discovered, the problem with giving space to destroy is that eventually you\u2019ll want them to stop destroying, and then at that point you\u2019ll have to do exactly the thing that you could have and should have done the moment that the lawlessness started. The rioters will not at that point thank you for having given them more time and space than they ever deserved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whenever you decide to finally enforce the law, they will claim to be oppressed \u2014 just as they would have if you had enforced the law from the beginning. This is one of the many problems with the \u201cspace to destroy\u201d strategy, and yet city leaders all across the country in the years since have adopted the same strategy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1359-why-the-pro-palestine-campus-protesters-are-a-bunch-of-childish-cosplaying-phonies-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent weeks, as you\u2019ve heard, university officials have embraced the \u201cspace to destroy\u201d approach as well. And last night that decision \u2014 as it always does \u2014 came to a head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After allowing leftist pro-Hamas demonstrators to maintain an illegal encampment for many days, Columbia University finally brought in the NYPD to arrest the criminals \u2014 a decision that was only made after they broke into and occupied a building on campus. The police arrived in full force with riot shields and zip ties and busses to arrest and detain the demonstrators. It didn\u2019t take very long before the situation was brought under control and the authorities had wrestled back the property that had been illegally seized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were many videos of this operation as it unfolded, often posted by leftist groups who expected the public to be shocked and horrified by the images.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s one video posted by a group called National Students for Justice in Palestine:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SWAT AND SRG HAVE INVADED COLUMBIA\u2019S CAMPUS AND ARE ENTERING HIND\u2019S HALL. THEY HAVE FORCED OUT ALL PRESS TO PREVENT RECORDINGS OF THEIR BRUTALITY. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LJJ5nKrUWe\">pic.twitter.com\/LJJ5nKrUWe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 National Students for Justice in Palestine (@NationalSJP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NationalSJP\/status\/1785482293542301804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They posted that along with this caption: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SWAT AND SRG HAVE INVADED COLUMBIA\u2019S CAMPUS AND ARE ENTERING HIND\u2019S HALL. THEY HAVE FORCED OUT ALL PRESS TO PREVENT RECORDINGS OF THEIR BRUTALITY.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there was no brutality. Simply the police enforcing the law. And they weren\u2019t invading anything. It\u2019s the pro-Hamas protesters that had illegally invaded a building. A building that isn\u2019t called Hind\u2019s Hall, but rather Hamilton Hall. The protesters had not only burglarized and occupied the building, but also attempted to rename it. They expect us to be deeply disturbed and outraged on their behalf that their act of organized burglary and trespassing is no longer allowed to continue. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indeed, many on the Left \u2014 including prominent politicians who spoke out \u2014 did express outrage. According to them, these protesters should be allowed to do whatever they want, indefinitely, and break whatever laws they want to break, for as long as they want to break them, without facing any consequences whatsoever. That is their actual position. Nonetheless, dozens of the criminals were arrested, and now they all face not only criminal charges but expulsion. They will be thousands of dollars in debt with no college degree. Which means they\u2019ll be in only slightly worse shape than people who are thousands of dollars in debt with a college degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, the illegal encampment on UCLA\u2019s campus was also invaded. But not by police. Here\u2019s the report from Breitbart:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roughly 100 pro-Israel vigilantes stormed the \u201cPalestine Solidarity Encampment\u201d at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, sparking battles with activists. The raid occurred after nearly a week in which UCLA not only allowed the encampment to occupy the main plaza on campus, but also allowed pro-Palestinian activists to run their own security, barring access to students and the public.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s what that looked like: <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is what happens when you grant one group special privileges to break the law and all of the rules. Not only break the rules \u2014 but come up with their own rules. That sort of wildly unjust, disproportionate situation can only continue for so long before everyone else \u2014 the people expected to abide by the law \u2014 have simply had enough of the double standard and decide to take matters into their own hands. If you don\u2019t want that to happen \u2014 and you definitely shouldn\u2019t want it to happen \u2014 then enforce the rules equally and hold everyone to the same standard. Which means that nobody should be allowed to maintain an encampment of any kind. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keep this in mind. When pro-life protesters sat peacefully outside of an abortion clinic for a few hours on one single morning, the Biden Administration sent armed federal agents to their homes to drag them away in handcuffs, convicted them of felonies, and now wants to send them to prison for ten years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When January 6th protesters trespassed in the capital, the federal government responded by spending the next three years hunting them down one by one and tossing them in prison. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the Left objects to how these pro-Hamas protesters are being treated, it\u2019s not because these protesters are being handled harshly. It\u2019s because the Left believes that their protesters \u2014 the ones on their side \u2014 should be given free rein to do whatever they want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a sense of entitlement obviously shared by the protesters themselves, which is what led to this unintentionally hilarious moment at Columbia University yesterday afternoon, a few hours before the police raid. An unofficial spokeswoman for the demonstrators gave a press conference where she made a number of demands. According to reporting from Noah Pollack, a contributor to the Free Beacon, this woman\u2019s name is Johannah King-Slutzky. According to her bio, Johannah is working on a dissertation on \u201cfantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination from 1760-1860.\u201d Her goal, she explains, is to \u201cwrite a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx\u2019s term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s a shame to think that the world will never get to read this full dissertation, now that Johannah is probably going to be expelled. We will have to continue on, somehow, without the vital information that she was going to provide us about the fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In any case, now that you know what sort of person we\u2019re dealing with, you won\u2019t be surprised by the demands she made during the press conference:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those are their demands. They say they are willing to enter into negotiations, but only if Columbia University follows the rules that the burglars and trespassers have set out. Of course the problem for the group is that they have absolutely no leverage whatsoever. They can simply be removed from the building and arrested at any time. They have no leverage, no power, nothing but the privilege they\u2019ve been granted to cosplay as revolutionaries. It can be revoked at any moment, and it was, shortly after these demands were made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the most striking and hilarious part of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/behind-the-scenes-at-bidens-bizarre-press-conference\/\" title=\"Behind The Scenes At Biden\u2019s Bizarre Press Conference\">bizarre press conference<\/a> was when she made a plea for \u2014 and I quote \u2014 humanitarian aid: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems like you&#8217;re saying, &#8216;we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food&#8217;.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vNczSAM4T1\">pic.twitter.com\/vNczSAM4T1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1785386376755900611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just to be completely clear here, the \u201chumanitarian aid\u201d they\u2019re requesting is Chipotle deliveries. The next time you order a burrito bowl on Door Dash, remember that you\u2019re not ordering lunch. You are requesting humanitarian aid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So these protesters committed burglary and trespassing, holed themselves up in a building where they didn\u2019t belong and had no right be, barricaded the doors and refused to come out, and then demanded that free food be delivered to them so that they don\u2019t, as they claim they are on the verge of doing, starve to death. This is the level of pathological, insane, delusional narcissistic entitlement that we\u2019re dealing with here. It\u2019s exactly the mentally that these college campuses intentionally instill, and which is now being wielded against them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But most of all this goes to show just how fake all of this is. You can say that these kids are radical leftists, and that\u2019s certainly true. You can say that they\u2019re anti-American, and that\u2019s true too, which is why they\u2019ve taken down American flags and replaced them with Palestinian flags, shouted Death to America, and so on. You can say that they\u2019re anti-white and they see Israel as a vehicle of whiteness, and that\u2019s true. You can say that some of these protesters are actually anti-semites who hate Jews as a group. And that\u2019s obviously true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But before any of that, what we must say about these protesters and their protest, is that it\u2019s all fake. Phony. Pretend. It\u2019s all one big performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The average American today lives a life of such comfort and luxury that the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt would look at them with envy. Ivy League students have lives significantly more luxurious and comfortable than that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s estimated that about 100 billion humans have lived on Earth since the dawn of the species. Those kids setting up encampments and demanding free Panera Bread have more wealth and privilege than almost all of them. They quite easily have it better than 99.9% of all humans who have ever existed. These kids have never experienced hardship, persecution, suffering or sacrifice. Most of them haven\u2019t even experienced being told no. This has made them not only entitled beyond all imagining, but also bored, dull, and desperate to find meaning in pretended oppression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They have no religion, most of them. No belief in God. No source of meaning in their lives. And they subscribe to an ideology that paints all the world and all of history as a struggle between persecutor and persecuted. They want to be in the latter group, if only so that they can feel better about themselves, and experience some excitement in a life that otherwise consists of sitting around and staring at screens while all of their needs are met at the snap of a finger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their whole worldview is a part of this game of pretend. They walk around every day in a fantasy world, one where they are the revolutionaries fighting back against a racist white supremacist \u201cHandmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d system that seeks to annihilate and enslave them. They maintain this fantasy, and double down on it, even as the system affords them every privilege it possibly can. In fact, the more privileges they are given, the deeper they must immerse themselves into the fantasy role playing game so that they can maintain the fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, if they <em>really<\/em> desired oppression and suffering, they could go find it. There is always the option to actually forgo their comfortable lives and move to a part of the world where they will experience the sort of deprivation and persecution that they spend their whole lives pretending to struggle against. But they don\u2019t want the fantasy to become real, anymore than someone fighting zombies in an arcade game wants to look over and find himself surrounded by the monsters in real life. They want to keep it all inside the game. Inside the virtual reality fantasy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until eventually a piece of reality breaks through the barrier and imposes itself on them \u2014 and in this case they find themselves arrested and expelled from school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The good news is that now they have a real misfortune to complain about. The bad news is they brought it on themselves. And the worst news of all is that they will almost certainly learn nothing from the experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late April 2015, riots broke out in Baltimore, Maryland, following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. Gray, a career criminal, became a symbol for the Black Lives Matter movement. 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