A billionaire threatens to stop funding Columbia University
Because he is pro-genocide
Hii, I got a scanner from my friend so I’ll start sharing my art again soon. Today I’ll be sharing my feelings about the billionaire Robert Kraft threatening to pull funding from Columbia University because of the pro-Palestinian protests. Onto the news…
News that made me say get that man a dictionary
Robert Kraft, a billionaire and owner of the New England Patriots, stated he would halt funding to Columbia University due to the student uprising against the pro-genocide school administration. I’m not surprised that a man who makes money from men concussing themselves for entertainment would be pro-genocide. That would be like being surprised that Joe Biden doesn’t have a soul. Kraft will, however, continue funding the building with his name because rich people like to see their names on large structures.
Kraft claims the pro-Palestinian student protests demanding Columbia’s divestment from so-called Israel is anti-semitic. Someone give that man a dictionary! I thought an ivy league education was supposed to prepare you for success in this capitalist hell hole by teaching you the meaning of simple words like anti-semitism.
To be clear, there is nothing anti-semitic about protesting your university’s support for a genocidal state. Many of the students demanding the end of Columbia's relationship with Israel are Jewish. No amount of beer pong can make you forget your school is complicit in genocide even if you are always losing.
Of course Kraft didn’t care about the safety of Jewish students protesting genocide when the NYPD arrested them for exercising their right to protest. Why would he? He literally runs a plantation; plantation owners don’t have the reputation for fancying uprisings. Yes, the NFL is a plantation, just look who does the work and who owns the workers. Stop letting the dancing mascots distract you.
I know I’m projecting. I haven’t watched a football game since I found out about CTE, but when I did I always focused on the mascots because they are creepy. Now that I look back it’s very horrifying, a costumed person dancing around while people give each other brain damage on the field. How can you cheer for brain damage! The same way we fund genocide! Someone is making money from it! That’s what the football cheerleaders should be chanting.
The reason why Columbia University and other universities who have clamped down on students demanding their institutions of learning become morally sound is because these institutions are beholden to morally bankrupt individuals who profit from suffering. These universities are a microcosm of the world we live in. A world where the morally bankrupt claim to be morally sound and any demand from the populace that immorality ends is met with violence. How dare you demand that we stop profiting from death, how rude! Don’t you have a game of flip cup to play!
The president of Columbia has threatened to send the national guard in if the student encampment does not disband because the national guard is here to guard us from freedom! This escalation is exactly what the state does when the populace refuses to step down from their demands of freedom. We saw similar escalations during the George Floyd uprising.
The institutions built to serve capitalists will always meet demands for freedom with violence. Violence is their beer pong and they will fight you if you dare to end their party. Which is why I keep saying and I will continue to say this until it happens. WE SHOULD STOP PARTICIPATING IN THEIR WORLD. STOP GOING TO THE FASCISTS GAMES, STOP GOING TO THE FASCIST SCHOOLS.
That’s it for the news but don’t go yet
This week on TikTok I shared what rich people mean when they say they are giving back.
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While students protest, mass graves have been found in a hospital in Gaza and Joe Biden has approved more funding for the genocide in Gaza.
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Please keep going to protests for Palestine. Please keep talking about Congo, Sudan, and colonialism.
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Thanks for another excellent column. Couldn't agree with you more!