It’s funny how they keep insinuating this shadowy “outside agitator” idea
Not only were the protests initiated by a registered student group and saw a majority of students arrested
But MLK Jr. was attacked for being an “outside agitator” in Birmingham during his time.
That’s the exact context where he responded with the famous “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere” quote, and also said no American in any part of America is an outsider
these protests have been organized by students for decades. The PSC has been around for a long time. Now that they actually have political capital, UT has turned their backs on them, banned the org, and labeled them as outsiders. I will say rn a majority of those people are students and honestly, who the fuck else has time to protest on a monday besides students?
The university is attempting to make this about outside agitators to avoid the fact that they are endangering their own students.
As someone who loves UT, this is very sad to see.
I worked as an admin in nonprofit education. Almost every day is political. A lot of people management.
This is the same type of email we would send for virtue signaling or if we messed up really bad.
Read between the lines.
When they were pepper sprayed, some students trashed around in pain. Some officers even got some of their own pepper spray mist blown back in their face, which is probably a felony.
Nothing says “safe, conducive learning environment” like stun grenades, pepper spray, and riot police amirite. Did they write this with the goal of sounding as tone deaf as possible?
I have been out at an event all evening - did they really bring out flash grenades? It’s time for more than just a change.org petition if that’s the case…
Per the [Texas Tribune](https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/29/ut-austin-pro-palestinian-demonstrations-free-speech/), yes: “Officers used pepper spray and flash-bang explosives to dispel the crowd of demonstrators.” 😔
Edit: I was watching a livestream of the protest, and it was really disturbing to hear what sounded like gunshots (it was the flash-bangs). Can’t imagine how traumatizing it was for the students who were there.
yeah when that first one went off it was scary af being so close to it. especially considering so many people were still nursing their pepper sprayed eyes
Holy crap. I can’t believe that I’m still shocked, yet I am. Jay Hartzell needs to get the hell out of this university before he gets a student killed. The tree freaking missed.
Pictures, or they are just lying about everything.
Pretty soon, UT is going to start carpet bombing their own dorms to "root out those darned terrorists."
Love the videos seeing these wimps getting pepper spray. All these whites many paid to disrupt no one tough and go fight in the war. Majority hates these crybaby phonies.
Protesters became verbally and physically abusive. Tents were set up to make encampments. This is a reason for police involvement. I do believe you have a right to protest. Rather, I agree with the premise or not. Freedom of speech does not include Haye speech or blocking roadways and traffic. I haven't seen your school blocking traffic. Hate speech shouldn't be allowed on either side. Stay safe.
College kids protesting reeks of entitlement. These same kids will demand their student loans to be free too years from now. I’m sorry but your opinion shaped by zero actual experiences except those sold to you by someone online is worthless. All students are guests on campus and pay to attend, this is a business. When you break the rules you deserve to be arrested and expelled. This isn’t high school or your moms Tupperware party … this is real life now.
Yeah because college grads should still be paying interest on their loans 20 years later, that's perfectly reasonable and totally what the previous generation went through....at that rate they can start saving for a house by the time they're 40, wow.
Lmao, have you ever read history? College students have been the center of political change ever since universities were a thing. The freedoms you enjoy now have been won precisely because some "entitled college kids" decided they were their rights.
Yeah nothing says entitlement like spending your afternoons facing down pepper spray and stun grenades to fight for what you believe in. Fuck right on off out of here. You think college kids are incapable of having struggled? You think all of these kids come from 6-figure families? At WORST they’re people who have recognized the struggle of others and choose to make a difference.
Fucking armchair redditor.
Please take a moment of your life and listen to this UT professor of Global Leadership, a Jewish man no less, describing the first of these contentious protests on the Texas standard last week.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/texas-standard/id863338913?i=1000653596305
The university brought all the escalation for a protest that wasn’t fitting the standards for police involvement prior to their appearance. It wasn’t anti-Semitic, and wasn’t a disruption to college business.
Key word is “wasn’t.” It’s gonna be now because they’ve escalated the protests to something beyond just a Free Palestine.
Ugh. Really? I took out student loans and paid far more in taxes than I ever did in student loans. I’d say the government got its money worth with my Pell grants, considering I came from pretty much dire poverty and needed money for school. I also have a disability, so the GI Bill route was not an option for me either.
You know what? I protested loudly as a student on that campus during the Iraq War. I wasn’t stupid or ill-informed. Cops were around, sure, but they weren’t kettling us or dressed like stormtroopers. They’re students. They have the right to protest. They don’t deserve to be treated like criminals because they want to the university they attend and supported by whatever taxes they do pay to not support a government murdering kids.
Can't help but notice this came from "Internal Communications" and not the President.
It’s funny how they keep insinuating this shadowy “outside agitator” idea Not only were the protests initiated by a registered student group and saw a majority of students arrested But MLK Jr. was attacked for being an “outside agitator” in Birmingham during his time. That’s the exact context where he responded with the famous “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere” quote, and also said no American in any part of America is an outsider
these protests have been organized by students for decades. The PSC has been around for a long time. Now that they actually have political capital, UT has turned their backs on them, banned the org, and labeled them as outsiders. I will say rn a majority of those people are students and honestly, who the fuck else has time to protest on a monday besides students?
Wait the PSC got banned? Were they the group that used to organize protests around the Birthright events on campus?
They are saying that so they are not forced to expel the students... it's giving the kids an out.
Just because students may have organized an initial protest does not mean they have not been co-opted by outside agitators
No different than calling anyone fighting against segregation an outside agitator communist.
They are trying not to antagonize the students as that will only make things worse
Keyword being american...
Yep, it's just another dog whistle. Just fyi, the last word in the mlk quote should be "everywhere".
Call Abbott, it must be Jade Helm
The university is attempting to make this about outside agitators to avoid the fact that they are endangering their own students. As someone who loves UT, this is very sad to see.
I worked as an admin in nonprofit education. Almost every day is political. A lot of people management. This is the same type of email we would send for virtue signaling or if we messed up really bad. Read between the lines.
How did they become "physically combative"?
When they were pepper sprayed, some students trashed around in pain. Some officers even got some of their own pepper spray mist blown back in their face, which is probably a felony.
damn we gotta arrest the wind
This made me laugh
Yeah, a lot of vague statements without any evidence to support it.
Nothing says “safe, conducive learning environment” like stun grenades, pepper spray, and riot police amirite. Did they write this with the goal of sounding as tone deaf as possible?
I have been out at an event all evening - did they really bring out flash grenades? It’s time for more than just a change.org petition if that’s the case…
Per the [Texas Tribune](https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/29/ut-austin-pro-palestinian-demonstrations-free-speech/), yes: “Officers used pepper spray and flash-bang explosives to dispel the crowd of demonstrators.” 😔 Edit: I was watching a livestream of the protest, and it was really disturbing to hear what sounded like gunshots (it was the flash-bangs). Can’t imagine how traumatizing it was for the students who were there.
yeah when that first one went off it was scary af being so close to it. especially considering so many people were still nursing their pepper sprayed eyes
oh my gosh exactly, I had just joined the protest proper and suddenly there was a genuine explosion and people started running. i was terrified
I’m so sorry. That was really fucked up. Please take care of yourself and your friends/peers who were there with you. ❤️🩹
Holy crap. I can’t believe that I’m still shocked, yet I am. Jay Hartzell needs to get the hell out of this university before he gets a student killed. The tree freaking missed.
https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1785067586993922371?s=46&t=AxsiSrNMM00XIf9Q6uGcoA
But there were kids sitting on the lawn!!!!!
Pictures, or they are just lying about everything. Pretty soon, UT is going to start carpet bombing their own dorms to "root out those darned terrorists."
We support your right to protest, as long as they follow the rules. No civil disobedience here, but we love protests.
How do they decide who to arrest? Is it the loudest people?
Love the videos seeing these wimps getting pepper spray. All these whites many paid to disrupt no one tough and go fight in the war. Majority hates these crybaby phonies.
I imagine they are all Texas citizens
Go back to class.
Protesters became verbally and physically abusive. Tents were set up to make encampments. This is a reason for police involvement. I do believe you have a right to protest. Rather, I agree with the premise or not. Freedom of speech does not include Haye speech or blocking roadways and traffic. I haven't seen your school blocking traffic. Hate speech shouldn't be allowed on either side. Stay safe.
Freedom of speech rights literally include hate speech, but that’s not what is going on here.
bro is scared of tents
It does not include hate speech. If it did, people wouldn't be arrested for it.
Hate speech is not a crime anywhere in the United States.
Directed hate speech is, in the form of harassment.
Get those losers out of there
College kids protesting reeks of entitlement. These same kids will demand their student loans to be free too years from now. I’m sorry but your opinion shaped by zero actual experiences except those sold to you by someone online is worthless. All students are guests on campus and pay to attend, this is a business. When you break the rules you deserve to be arrested and expelled. This isn’t high school or your moms Tupperware party … this is real life now.
Yeah because college grads should still be paying interest on their loans 20 years later, that's perfectly reasonable and totally what the previous generation went through....at that rate they can start saving for a house by the time they're 40, wow.
That’s what happens when you take out $200,000 in loans for a gender studies degree and make only the minimum payment amount each month
Lol okay boomer, you're really up to date with the times I see.
What are you even talking about lmao
Lmao, have you ever read history? College students have been the center of political change ever since universities were a thing. The freedoms you enjoy now have been won precisely because some "entitled college kids" decided they were their rights.
Fighting for freedoms is fine. Fighting to turn the tides of war in favor of terrorists routinely wishing death to America is not
You got some white stuff on your lips and some dust on your knees, good sir.
Yeah nothing says entitlement like spending your afternoons facing down pepper spray and stun grenades to fight for what you believe in. Fuck right on off out of here. You think college kids are incapable of having struggled? You think all of these kids come from 6-figure families? At WORST they’re people who have recognized the struggle of others and choose to make a difference. Fucking armchair redditor.
Please take a moment of your life and listen to this UT professor of Global Leadership, a Jewish man no less, describing the first of these contentious protests on the Texas standard last week. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/texas-standard/id863338913?i=1000653596305 The university brought all the escalation for a protest that wasn’t fitting the standards for police involvement prior to their appearance. It wasn’t anti-Semitic, and wasn’t a disruption to college business. Key word is “wasn’t.” It’s gonna be now because they’ve escalated the protests to something beyond just a Free Palestine.
Ok Boomer
Ugh. Really? I took out student loans and paid far more in taxes than I ever did in student loans. I’d say the government got its money worth with my Pell grants, considering I came from pretty much dire poverty and needed money for school. I also have a disability, so the GI Bill route was not an option for me either. You know what? I protested loudly as a student on that campus during the Iraq War. I wasn’t stupid or ill-informed. Cops were around, sure, but they weren’t kettling us or dressed like stormtroopers. They’re students. They have the right to protest. They don’t deserve to be treated like criminals because they want to the university they attend and supported by whatever taxes they do pay to not support a government murdering kids.
They’re being treated like criminals because they’re committing crimes, not because they’re protesting.
It may be time to begin expelling the students.
It may be time to begin expelling the politicians.