I can’t believe I have to explain what’s happening here, but here goes. Elite students of Ivy League schools have glamorized oppression so much that they have now reached role play status to satisfy their fantasies. Here, the students have appropriated the suffering of Gazans and are cosplaying as living through humanitarian crisis. In their American make-believe story where Ivy League infrastructure sets the scene, the students play Gazans and the school administration plays Israel.
Israel (the school) is blocking their “basic humanitarian aid” in this play, and if they don’t receive it soon, they will “die of thirst and starvation” (appropriating exact experiences of Gazans). They also destroy upper class buildings and claim them as “liberated” while the students repeat chants in zombie-like chorus, playing the roll of “freedom fighters” destroying Israeli infrastructure and claiming them freed. If I’m alive in a world where people don’t see the levels of perversion in this, I give up.
You don’t see this in lower tier schools from kids of lower socio-economic standing because they aren’t plagued with the guilt of privilege that they’re seeking to launder through Middle East role plays of feigned suffering. This is as first world dystopia as it gets.
Meanwhile, these Ivy League students who can have much more than a glass of water and as much food as their stomachs can take are commanding the attention of the media and the entire American audience, while actual Gazans who need humanitarian aid are ignored. I still have to pinch myself that people don’t see this.
@packyM Find the biggest field you can on a sunny day. Like a mind-blowing huge open space for a 2 year old and let them wander further than they ever have before. Central Park, Storm King or most public school fields in the suburbs etc all work.
@nickducoff Eh, this is just the illusion of governance. The outcome was only going to be the outcome he wanted and that his creditors will sign off on.
TAP was a huge part of how I paid for college. I jumped through the most comical hoops to qualify as a “full time” student (while working full time) almost exclusively to get this grant. Long overdue correction for so many of the most stretched New Yorkers.
Our tuition assistance program wasn't delivering for all of today’s New Yorkers. That's why I was proud to expand TAP so it works for part-time students — and kicks in as soon as students enroll.
Now 75,000 more New Yorkers can get an affordable education.
That’s a big deal.
@DavidZipper@NHTSAgov Do you think there are blockers preventing this expanding to all licensed vehicles (ie taxi / ride share) or is it only something the city can bring to its owned fleet?
@patkiernan The best exhibit in the city, by a mile. This suggestion can only be improved by first ordering the chicken parm at Parkside directly across from (and before going to) the Lemon Ice King.