Speech was canceled because speaker has been a supporter of human rights for all including Palestinians. https://apple.news/A4K7TzcZuTI-oRR1Qlp7W4w Justified? #tech #palestine #usc
Its not about who she is. She probably planned pro palestine speech and that will make all Israeli students and families uncomfortable attending the ceremony. USC would have done the same if val is Israeli And gives pro israel speech. Schools should stay neutral in warfare and politics.
Idk if I’d agree with academic neutrality as a blanket statement, but definitely in a convocation speech, you should give general insights about life and keep politics out. It’s a day to celebrate the achievements of people of all creeds and backgrounds. The focus should be on THEM – what they’ve achieved and what they’ll go onto achieve. It shouldn’t be used as a platform to draw attention to a specific issue – that’s just selfish.
I thought US universities had a boner for oppression narratives.
Good decision, let’s reverse the cancel culture now.
How is canceling others reversing the cancel culture?
People should stop being political everywhere. If you want to protest go do it in a park peacefully without bothering others. If you want to bother, go bother people where it makes impact. Ex : Go pull Biden's diaper and don't allow him to wear until he meets your demands.
We don’t want political BS to taint a happy moment in student’s lives. Keep your political opinions away from forum that celebrate achievements of a group consisting of different opinions.
She was for sure going to inject a bunch of pro Palestinian and pro Hamas stuff into her speech. Now the real food for thought, would she have done the opposite if Israel never invaded Gaza and Hamas killed a few thousand people? My personal opinion is that she would give 0 shits about the lives lost on the other side and claim that it's her speech so she doesn't need to say anything about condemning violence or peace in the middle east.
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She is younger than the first Israels invasion. So your food for thought example is just something that never could happen in her lifetime
1. Why didn’t you put #israel in the bottom of your post too? You included #tech which isn’t really relevant. 2. Human Rights Peacemakers are needed right now with information on how we can help promote peace. We need speeches about common ground and taking care of each other. 3. We DON’T need more divisive activist, hell raising, side vs side shame speech that just tells us how to be angry/outraged. We’ve had far too much of that.
Criticizing Israel is not moral and will not be tolerated
McCarthyism , today its this tomorrow it’s Indians after that it’s men after that it’s someone else
Tomorrow it’s Indians? For what?
Plenty of reasons to cancel Indians. Their prime minister was banned from the US for years for terrorism activities. Don't think Americans won't try to cancel Indians in the future if we allow free speech to get destroyed here for others
It’s not a free speech issue. It’s a tradition, not a right, that the Valedictorian gets to stand up and say whatever they want to say. Personally, I’m anti-Palestine and against support for Israel. Israel needs to manifest its own destiny and stop relying on America. Let the Valedictorian say their piece to keep the tradition alive. It won’t change anything.
anti-Palestine? What does that mean? Do you mean anti-Hamas or you think Palestinians don’t have a right to exist or does it have something to do with them being “radical Muslims”?
Palestine does not exist. People that claim to be Palestinian are just refugees living in Israel.
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Curious to see what the explanation is for all the people voting “justified”
I can understand it from a logical point of view (universities have far more Jewish donors and money talks), but I disagree as a human who believes in basic human rights (even for students who aren’t light skinned).
oh well sure obviously I understand it from a money point of view. That is exactly what the mafia does though right?