Unprincipled, but Literally

We have discussions about personalities and identities that pretend to be discussions about principle.

Does the President of the United States have some degree of legal immunity for actions he takes while in office? Trump sucks, so hell no, that orange asshole needs to go to PRISON.

Should universities allow protesters to seize public space on campus and create exclusion zones on the basis of identity and ideology? WHY ARE YOU WITH THE FUCKING ZIONISTS.

So.

Protesters inside the pro-intifada encampment at UCLA chanted “pigs go home!” yesterday as police in riot gear entered the campus. This sentiment is entirely consistent with the messaging at the encampment, which displays “FUCK UCPD” and “ACAB” signs.

Then, as several dozen pipe-swinging Jewish streetfighters approached the encampment late last night….

….the police left.

For two hours. Multiple agencies responding to a mutual aid request from campus police apparently had conflicting or limited orders, with people on the campus hearing that officers were warned to avoid using force or making arrests.

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Immediate response from inside the encampment:

They texted, “It’s getting bad. No police.” From behind the “FUCK UCPD” sign.

So.

It’s very, very, very upsetting that the police weren’t on the UCLA campus.

Also, it’s extremely disgusting and wrong that the police were called to the Columbia campus, get the cops OUT!

No cops! Also, more cops! It happens in nearly the same breath.

FUCK YOU FUCKING PIGS YOU MOTHERF oh shit help where are the police

They never meant “fuck the police” as a statement of principle, as any form of expression regarding their personal beliefs. It was cosplay; they were making fashionable mouth sounds, morally and intellectually empty child-noises from howling human voids gibbering mindless nonsense with absolutely nothing happening in the gob of fat they use for a brain. Empty, pathetic, worthless.

Lot of that going around. Patience fading.