I disagree because in the long run, what is a statement actually going to do? It might fit the rhetoric that you want but its going to just end up being performative and do nothing. I think a way better way to help with this is to actually get involved with local immigrants in your community and make sure their needs are met and ask them about their feelings on the situation so they feel heard. Forcing every powerful voice to align with your ideas only affects the abstract plain and does nothing to actually help the real people being targeted by this. Online activism can only change thoughts, and in order to have a real impact on these people being persecuted, its necessary to do real actions that benefit their lives. At the end of the day, Purdue could condemn this or say nothing, but if you really help these people are being targeted, that will be remembered forever and have a true impact on them.
"I disagree because in the long run, what is a statement actually going to do?"
We agree on this point, which is why the article goes into detail on how Purdue doesn't stand up for students in other ways, in some cases infringing on their freedom of expression.
Inviting right wing commentators onto campus and taking their name off the Exponent are two strong examples mentioned in the article. In addition, during the Palestinian protests, Purdue used their vaguely worded "public property" policy to violate students' right to assemble: https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_23197d22-0641-11ef-b996-1b503fc07211.html.
These examples show a pattern of behavior of Purdue consistently failing to protect their students' rights. They have an obligation as an educational institution to uphold the rights to assemble, protest, and speak, and they must protect these rights at a national level.
I don't see how it's too much to ask for a condemnation of an unjustified arrest...as a start.
"I think a way better way to help with this is to actually get involved with local immigrants in your community"...can't we do both? Why present "getting involved to help immigrants" as one option and "call out Purdue for their shortcomings" as the other?
Purdue is an incredibly powerful organization with access to resources that the average individual does not have, so it would absolutely be worthwhile to reform the broader system while also organizing in your own local community.
You go on to say: "but if you really help these people are being targeted, that will be remembered forever and have a true impact on them" isn't this solution just putting a bucket under a leaky faucet? If we lived in a functional democracy we wouldn't have to go out of our way to protect the civil liberties of minority groups, they would be protected and respected automatically. I find it hard to believe that individual action to help these people will do anything to fix the systemic causes of these issues (principle of those the militarization of ICE against civil liberties). Individual action, however noble, can only be part of the solution.
Yeah thats a good point twin i see how you're coming with that. Donald Trump on some bullshit we gotta come together and stop this junk cause we all agree on that
I disagree because in the long run, what is a statement actually going to do? It might fit the rhetoric that you want but its going to just end up being performative and do nothing. I think a way better way to help with this is to actually get involved with local immigrants in your community and make sure their needs are met and ask them about their feelings on the situation so they feel heard. Forcing every powerful voice to align with your ideas only affects the abstract plain and does nothing to actually help the real people being targeted by this. Online activism can only change thoughts, and in order to have a real impact on these people being persecuted, its necessary to do real actions that benefit their lives. At the end of the day, Purdue could condemn this or say nothing, but if you really help these people are being targeted, that will be remembered forever and have a true impact on them.
"I disagree because in the long run, what is a statement actually going to do?"
We agree on this point, which is why the article goes into detail on how Purdue doesn't stand up for students in other ways, in some cases infringing on their freedom of expression.
Inviting right wing commentators onto campus and taking their name off the Exponent are two strong examples mentioned in the article. In addition, during the Palestinian protests, Purdue used their vaguely worded "public property" policy to violate students' right to assemble: https://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_23197d22-0641-11ef-b996-1b503fc07211.html.
These examples show a pattern of behavior of Purdue consistently failing to protect their students' rights. They have an obligation as an educational institution to uphold the rights to assemble, protest, and speak, and they must protect these rights at a national level.
I don't see how it's too much to ask for a condemnation of an unjustified arrest...as a start.
"I think a way better way to help with this is to actually get involved with local immigrants in your community"...can't we do both? Why present "getting involved to help immigrants" as one option and "call out Purdue for their shortcomings" as the other?
Purdue is an incredibly powerful organization with access to resources that the average individual does not have, so it would absolutely be worthwhile to reform the broader system while also organizing in your own local community.
You go on to say: "but if you really help these people are being targeted, that will be remembered forever and have a true impact on them" isn't this solution just putting a bucket under a leaky faucet? If we lived in a functional democracy we wouldn't have to go out of our way to protect the civil liberties of minority groups, they would be protected and respected automatically. I find it hard to believe that individual action to help these people will do anything to fix the systemic causes of these issues (principle of those the militarization of ICE against civil liberties). Individual action, however noble, can only be part of the solution.
Yeah thats a good point twin i see how you're coming with that. Donald Trump on some bullshit we gotta come together and stop this junk cause we all agree on that