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floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

MIT bans class president from graduation commencement after pro-Palestinian speech

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MIT bans class president from graduation commencement after pro-Palestinian speech

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floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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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."
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    MIT is deep in bed with the MIC. Their administration is not friendly towards Arabs unless those Arabs have a line of credit with Boeing or Raytheon.

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      Whats the MIC?

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        Military industrial complex

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          I usually don’t see it in acronym form.

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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military–industrial_complex

        Edit: No idea how explaining the definition of the acronym “MIC” got 3 downvotes. Real reddit-tier energy on this thread.

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          Presumably because you’re 10min behind the others, and you posted a raw wiki link. I assume those 3 people got a “just fucking google it” vibe from it.

          Atleast what my reddit PTSD tells me it could be.

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            Weird

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          Downvoted for complaining about downvotes. The internet points do nothing. Everyone please downvote me so I can demonstrate how little it matters.

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            Downvoted for complaining about complaining about downvotes.

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              Downvoted cause why not? The points don’t matter.

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              Two negatives make a positive so here’s your upvote.

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            yeah we dont even count our totals here. I do kind of miss having a total, but I dont miss reddit. I downvoted you, feel free to downvote me back and have yourself a nice day too.

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