Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his call to ban pro-Palestinian groups from Florida state colleges Sunday, after one of his Republican presidential primary opponents, Vivek Ramaswamy, slammed the demand as “a shameful political ploy.”
“It’s unconstitutional. It’s utter hypocrisy for someone who railed against left-wing cancel culture,” Ramaswamy posted on X (formerly Twitter) Thursday, alleging that it violates students’ right to free speech.
DeSantis held firm Sunday.
“This is not cancel culture. This group, they themselves said, in the aftermath of the Hamas attack, that they don’t just stand in solidarity that they are part of this Hamas movement,” DeSantis said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
I’m wondering how many of the current commentors actually read the article, lol. Firstly. The title is wrong as he’s only challenging ONE group. Students for Justice in Palestine, so that’s click bait.
DeSantis is making a claim that the group he’s basing this on has claimed solidarity with Hamas, a terrorist organization. Like, should we be letting pro Hamas people just float around collage campuses?
Now, that’s what we should be looking at. We should be asking if this is just a racist political stunt. If you look up Students for Justice in Palestine, you’ll see articles claiming they have put out messages that are anti Semitic and pro hamas in nature. The chapter at this Florida school has apparently made it abundantly clear they are pro hamas. Professors and pro Jewish groups have written the management at the school and have been writing their representatives to address this issue.
Can you chuds fucking read and think for yourself? Like, yeah I hate DeSantis as much as the next guy but if you just shovel this biased political shit into your brain without a second thought you’re not better than any republican who posts hurrr durrr liberals on Facebook.
If you don’t take the time to actually look passed the headline, then you have no idea if this is a dickwad with too much power or if this is something else entirely. You don’t know if this is a targeted racist effort against students or if these are pro hamas students openly supporting (and potentially financially supporting) Hamas
And just to add, you can be against this decision, saying it’s not the government’s duty to handle religious and cultural affiliations of students. But at least actually know why you’d be against it, ffs
The problem is hypocrisy. If you allow actual Nazi’s to walk around with swastikas in public…well this is the same.
That’s a very valid argument, yeah
It’s not up to the government to decide that. That’s the whole point of the first amendment.
This is assuming they don’t move past words.
I addressed that
And I’m disagreeing. He’s still limiting free speech. I don’t have to like what they are saying to realize their speech is still being limited by his actions. Say things we don’t like you get your funding cut.
…how are you disagreeing with a point you agreed with? Are you just trying to be an argumentative tool today or something?
Say bomb on a plane get your freedoms cut. It’s not the same
They are welcome to say whatever they like, but they are not guaranteed help from the government to actively spread their message.
They aren’t banned or even kicked out, they just can’t use school resources to advance their organization. They can still gather, they can still speak openly, they can still get their education.
Reading more deeply, this seems reasonable enough. I’ve seen a lot of conservatives equating “don’t kill innocent Palestinians” with “Hamas supporter”, but in this specific case they went out of their way to mention there’s room for that but not room for “Hamas is our movement”.
The world seems to have broken when there are obviously bad guys on both sides of the conflict…
When did they say this? Also when his ass was quiet when literal Nazis paraded around, he can stay quiet now
I addressed that in a lower comment, yeah
Do you believe pro-IDF groups should be allowed on campuses despite the fact that they are genocidal collaborators?
No one is being banned from campus, and as long as the group isn’t just a generic Jewish group, as long as they have come out in support of the actions of Isreals military, then yes I would agree with a deactivation
@Heresy_generator@kbin.social
It’s says groups, plural. S means plural.