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Columbia Protestors Make Absurd Demands, Pretend They Will Starve · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Hey, you know how you keep hearing about students being indoctrinated into loony Marxist
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  ideology, Well, yeah, that's happening. Here we have from the post
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  millennial Columbia PhD student accuses school administrators of wanting students to die of dehydration and
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  starvation in occupied campus building. And we're going to get to the video of
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  this, which is quite hilarious in a moment, but let's deal with a
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  couple of things first. So first off, people like this, people like
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  this Columbia PhD student, These are amongst the most privileged people in the world,
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  in fact, in world history. So a protester at Columbia University spoke
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  out on Tuesday and delivered the demands of those occupying Hamilton Hall on the school's
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  Morningside campus. The protester was identified as Joanna King Slutski, and I believe
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  I'm pronouncing that right, who has been a campus activist since at least twenty
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  twenty one. She was with these student workers of Columbia and is a PhD
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  student in English and comparative literature. And her dissertation is definitely worth noting,
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  and we'll get to that after the video. So let's take a look at
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  this lunacy right now. Why are they be obligated to provide food to people
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  who've taken over a building. Well, first of all, we're saying that
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  they're obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan here.
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  But you mentioned that there is a requested that food and water be brought in
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  unless I listen to allow it to be brought in. I mean, well,
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  I guess it's ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia
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  feels it has to its students. Do you want students to die of dehydration
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  and starvation or get severely ill, even if they disagree with you, die
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  of dehydration at Columbia. These people either they think that we're idiots or they're
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  idiots. Actually it's probably both. Disagree with you. If the answer is
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  no, then you should allow basic I mean it's crazy to say because we're
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  on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we're asking
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  for, like could people please to have a glass of water? But they
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  didn't put themselves in that very deliberate basic humanitarian aid. Hmmm, that's interesting,
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  almost feels kind of delusionally self aggrandizing somehow very deliberately in that situation and
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  in that position. So it seems like you're sort of saying, we want
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  to be revolutionary, so we want to take up this building. Now,
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  would you please bring us food and water? Nobody's asking them to bring anything
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  everything. We're we're asking them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic
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  humanitarian aid. They're stopping the delivery of We are looking for a commitment from
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  them that they will not stop it by having stop it. Well, I
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  don't know to what extent it has been attempted, but we're looking for a
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  commitment and we grow. So nobody's actually tried to prevent food or water from
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  getting through, but they just want to get ahead of it just to prevent
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  themselves from dying of hunger and thirst at Columbia. Now there's an interesting reader's
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  added context here on X her claims are misleading. One per Columbia campus dining
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  is open, John j Dining Hall, Factshack, and JJ's Place. Well,
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  I don't know, I mean, have they decolonized those places yet?
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  Has anybody asked at number two? Humanitarian eight is for saving lives in the
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  most dire situations, a violent conflict in natural disasters. The students can leave
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  if they want. You know, when you put it like that, it
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  really doesn't seem like they're being oppressed at all. What a waste of an
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  education. And speaking of that waste of an education, let's see King slut
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  Ski. Slutski has been listed on Columbia's website as a PhD student on Tuesday
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  morning, but by evening that page was missing her biography read quote. My
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  dissertation is on Fantasies of limitless energy in the Transatlantic Romantic imagination from seventeen sixty
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  to eighteen sixty. So, in other words, as she's providing absolutely nothing
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  of value, but it continues. My goal is to write a prehistory of
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  metabolic rift. Marx says, how did we know Marx was going to find
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  his way in here? How did we know this far left agitator was going
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  to be a communist? Did I mention that whole thing about wasted education?
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  Anyway? So metabolic rift, which is Marxi's term for the disruption of energy
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  circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism, there's that evil capitalism always causing those metabolic
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  riffs. I think We've had enough of those, haven't we, folks.
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  But anyway, she continues, there's even more. I am particularly interested in
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  theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens, in order
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  to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination.
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  Oh a bullshit artist, That's all I gotta say about that. Please like,
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