Leftist Groups at Princeton U. Protest Trump’s ‘Authoritarianism,’ ‘Oppression’
“Princeton, today we rise up. Today we rise up for democracy.”
What else is new? This is how the left behaves under every Republican president.
The College Fix reports:
Princeton leftist groups protest Trump’s ‘authoritarianism,’ ‘oppression’
Approximately 100 campus leftists at Princeton University showed up outside a campus library on November 7 to protest President Trump’s “authoritarianism.”
The Instagram advertisement for the event reads “Princeton, today we rise up. Today we rise up for democracy. Today we rise up for climate. Today we rise up for Palestine. For immigrants. For academic freedom. For justice everywhere.”
According to The Daily Princetonian, activists zeroed in on the Trump administration’s continuing ICE raids and universities’ acquiescence to the president’s demands.
Professor Andrew Cole, a “critical theorist” who teaches courses on political theory and “spatial theory and praxis” according to his faculty page, ripped Trump’s attempts at “extorting” Princeton and other universities.
“Cornell University succumbed to extortion from this administration to the tune of $60 million,” Cole told the crowd. “When academic freedom is strong, we are strong. When we are strong, there is democracy.”
Ana Paola Pazmiño, director of the “local immigrant advocacy group” Resistencia en Acción (Resistance in Action) for some reason tied to the Trump administration an Indiana homeowner’s accidental shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant who mistakenly entered his house. Pazmiño chided Trump’s escalating of “racial tension,” along with his “constant oppression” of people of color and continued efforts at suppressing speech.
SPEAR (Students for Prison Education, Abolition & Reform) co-President Kristin Nagy, who studies “how social movements in Central America and beyond imagine new worlds and resist oppression through creating communities of care,” said the Trump administration is “unafraid to be unabashedly fascist at the expense of our communities.”
Nagy, along with Daily Princetonian Features Editor Mira Eashwaran, performed a few songs for the crowd, including Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’.”
Another member of the Daily Princetonian, Sunrise Princeton co-Coordinator Isaac Barsoum, told the crowd “One year ago, we were afraid. But today, we are optimistic about our vision.”
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The kiddies at Princeton are utterly oblivious to the fact that if Trump were really an authoritarian, they’d already be shoveling s*** in a Louisiana labor camp.