The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the contents.

A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” while the USAID section might be perceived as “anti governmental.”

Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides but then three hours later, after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel.

It’s appalling to see how quickly American higher ed bent over for the fascists. Why would anybody study there? Come to Canada or the EU instead.

Also great in crepes.

Indeed. The persistent hope of average Americans that some superhero will ride in from stage left and fix all of this for them is… something. It won’t happen. You all need to work together on this. Everybody needs to act and fight.

77M morons handed them the reins

What does that make the other 270 million?

Why yes, I do like Rum and Coke

28% of Americans are fully illiterate and 54% are only partially literate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

It’s basically the fuselage and wings of a F-22 with the tail of a YF-23, but point taken. Anyway, put canards on it and I’d wear that t-shirt.

Sorry, but we don’t want it. Cali has more Republicans than Texas so it would swamp us with way more far-right than we already have.

Sorry, “Felon” is already taken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-57

OP: love the aesthetic but that’s a F-22

Yeah but this was 3 years ago, Lemmy was basically only the .ml instance at that time.

By US standards maybe, but I’m to the left of that.

It was never closed to non-tankies, but it wasn’t very welcoming. I had an account on .ml early on and most of the time I got hammered with downvotes, despite having opinions that I’d describe as being on the left edge of liberalism.

Lemmy was originally built by and for tankies, so this is completely unsurprising. The .ml TLD on the original instance isn’t a coincidence.