Columbia Leaders Grilled at Antisemitism Hearing

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(04-30-2024, 09:16 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You continually trying to equate these pro-Hamas protests to the civil rights or anti-apartheid movement reeks of desperation.  A slight difference, neither of those protests favored the side of admitted pro-genocide, gang rapist, murdering kidnappers of infants and the elderly.  

This is like saying the civil rights protests were "pro-Communist" protests,
as people did at the time.

No, it's not.

Were the communists welcomed and given free reign to express their position?   One could well draw the conclusion that anything that was perceived as weakening the US would be a prime target for communist/Soviet support.  After all, unlike them we actually allowed protest, albeit to different degrees depending on the location at that time.

So my point was that there were "Communists" among civil rights protests. But that didn't make them "pro-Communist" protests,
because segregation/injustice was the REAL CAUSE.
Just as a Hamas supporter among anti war protestors at Columbia would not make the protests "pro-Hamas," 
because the REAL CAUSE of the protests would be the Gaza War and the occupation. 

Your response is not refutation but repetition--"the protests are pro Hamas." As if the protests would be happening
whether there was a Gaza war or not, because lots of American students just like Hamas. 

On a side note, the guy who organized the famous march on Washington in 1963 was a Communist. So yes, free reign--
until the FBI and DOJ came down on civil rights leaders and demanded they distance themselves from the Commies.

LOL you are definitely not a Leftist.
Rather than granting my point, you just offer a couple statements as to why it might be "understandable" to target civil rights leaders. 
And you say "We actually allowed protest" at a time when, in fact, protests were not being allowed and protest
leaders were threatened, not protected, by police and FBI. 

(04-30-2024, 09:16 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Quote:NOW most right wingers (maybe not all?) can acknowledge that MLK was "no Soviet." Sure

I haven't encountered anyone, right of left leaning, who considers MLK a Soviet.  Maybe you're being a bit prejudiced here?

Have you encountered, in your voluminous reading of US Civil Rights history, anyone who considered King a Communist? The FBI team that surveilled him might be a good place to start. The Bureau's Domestic Intel. head, William Sullivan, shared these thoughts.

“We must mark [King] now...as the most dangerous Negro of the future of this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and National security,” https://www.history.com/news/martin-luther-king-jr-fbi-j-edgar-hoover-communism

The right was divided on this matter. Some "knew" that he was a communist agent of Moscow, others thought merely a tool. But none doubted he was part of the Communist "threat." Tricky Communists were stirring up anger about racism, dividing otherwise happy Americans. They attacked the ideology of white supremacy, but the FBI could see right through that tactic. OUTSIDE AGITATORS where creating racial unrest--not actual racism. 

No surprise during a time when the head of the John Birch Society could call Eisenhower a "dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy." That was back when the conspiratorial far right was fringe, not mainstream.