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  • And civil disobedience that breaks the law in multiple ways: trespassing on private property, disrupting a private event, terrorizing Cornell’s guests on its own campus, and destroying those guests’ private property, has consequences.

    Cornell is completely within their rights to expel all of the students involved, and I strongly support their decision. Violent and aggressive acts of civil disobedience have always had consequences, and if people choose to participate, they must be ready to accept those consequences.

    If this guy had stayed outside and actually peacefully protested, he’d still have a position. But he didn’t, and now he’s kicked the fuck out of his grad program and out of the country.


  • What?? Peaceful protest my ass - they violently broke into the Statler Hotel past a whole ring of security and completely trashed multiple career fair tables in the middle of the crowded career fair. The company reps and the students trying to make professional connections fled the hall in fear, and the event had to be completely cancelled.

    This guy (and all of the other students being kicked out) deserve every bit of what they’re getting, and this kind of bullshit one-sided reporting completely justifies my ever-increasing skepticism whenever I hear people bitching about consequences at so-called “peaceful” protests.
















  • hakase@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldmodern tech
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    7 months ago

    “Chai” doesn’t mean “tea” in English though - it signifies a specific type of mixed-spice tea. “Chai tea” is no more redundant in English than “Earl Grey tea” is.

    One a word has been borrowed into another language, the meaning/etymology of the word in the source language is irrelevant. For example, I bet when you say “sushi” you mean “fish on/wrapped in rice” and not the vinegared rice itself, because that’s what it means in English. Similarly, when a Japanese speaker says “mansion”, they mean a high-rise apartment or condominium, not a large house, because that’s what the word means in Japanese.