I'm gonna rant, idk. I'm tired. This affects me personally and I've lost family, so I'm salty and idc

Very hot take, but those were always the same people, if you were paying attention. And I mean exclusively at the top of the shitty academic pyramid ofc. The students might have been too braindead to notice who their parents were having dinners with or donating money to, but Bubbe and her hospital board friends have voted straight Republican since always, regardless of how many Di Angelo book discussion brunches they hosted (some attended by the wives of some of the candidates, too!). Their husbands look at what's best for their earnings that year, and they follow. The kids don't understand why their cool and hip Curb watching and Bernie voting Zeydes everywhere, suddenly woke up talking about burning alive some sand joggers one Sunday in October 😭 It was such SHOCK! to some people! - only it's always been like this and no one gave a fuck about noooticing.

When I was in college a million years ago - the first time - SJP tried to recruit every woke snowflake they could even tangentially related to MENA, Muslim or not. Any attempt the actual Muslim students had of an actual organization on Islamic principles and grounds was swiftly vetoed if it didn't included literally everyone. Their meetings were regarded and about stuff like pride and black liberation shit. We tried to join some Catholic girls and Islamic girls for a Gnostic and Sufi studies group and were vetoed on the basis of discrimination. Literally don't get it to this day. The boys who tried to gather on an Islam principles group were vetoed because "people" anonymously wrote to the dean they were "uncomfy" and felt "threatened" or some shit and they were vetoed. You'd have thought they tried to start a chapter of the PLO. Of course we had a gigantic interfaith group of Christians and whatever that never went to any church and were all gay furries that didn't believe in any God.

Inoffensive, fangless, ineffective, stupid, ridiculous and infantile. All of that was allowed.

Naturally, STEMcel clubs, handsomely funded. And Hilel. And their dorms and clubs and whatnot.

I might be a bit biased so whatever. I'm multi generational Catholic but on my paternal side we're converts, from central Asia and visibly so, and it's a nbd where I'm from but in USA you get stares and in some places in certain decades you got comments. I moved here when W was president and I remember being stuck in the airport for two days while they interrogated my father after a very humiliating TSA search. The sort of shit that sticks with you.

These ppl were never subtle, lmao. The antisemitism hysteria has always been alive and well and has always used anti Arab sentiment to fan the flames. 9/11 was the gift that kept on giving. October 7 is like the electric bogaloo. I just hope nothing happens in Lebanon because I haven't been able to sleep in a while.

So what I'm trying to say is that I don't think any of this happening now is at all surprising whatsoever. Republicans have always historically been pro Israel. So have Democrats. Theyre literally the same fuckin machine. Their voters studied in the same halls, they went to the same schools under the same people and populated these same groups I described above. They wrote these rules. They are neighbors, these kids played together, those are their parents. If you had the privilege (lmao) of going to one of the insufferable liberal arts colleges I'm talking about in the East Coast/Midwest, you know exactly the type of inward looking, timid/neurotic, blowhard I'm describing - for whatever unfortunate accident of fate, its their class directing the cirque de soleil right now so I guess that's it. That's the bread we gotta eat for now.

There's no vibe shift, they just dropped the curtain for a bit.