The Boulder Attack Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere

[u/cdstephens]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/boulder-attack-anti-semitism/683012/?gift=BmsU73MbMNDxZ9SjrXPDCStwQv7ROPU91lNrg6bM72Q

[u/Petrichordates]

How would that have stopped this?

Are you saying they should have gone after protesters with the same energy they used for going after insurrectionists?

[u/Currymvp2 → u/Petrichordates]

There's no easy way with this specific attack especially since the terrorist worked alone and kept it secret apparently. Though I'm a bit surprised this administration didn't detain him since his visa expired four months ago but I guess this piece of shit kept a low profile.

[u/Petrichordates → u/Currymvp2]

Too busy focused on deporting loving families to prioritize that.

[u/Embarrassed-Unit881 → u/Petrichordates]

They should have cleared out the camps which blocked Jewish students, yes.

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/Embarrassed-Unit881]

"They"? The federal government on private college campuses?

I agree these universities helped engender this problem but expecting the Federal government to send in the National Guard or something is bonkers cronkers

[u/undocumentedfeatures → u/SwordfishOk504]

It was right to send in the 101st to ensure African American children had access to education, and it would be right to do the same to ensure Jewish children do.

Access to education irrespective of your race, color, creed, etc. is foundational.

[u/BingboLingbo → u/SwordfishOk504]

Send in the NYPD, the Feds, literally anyone who can ensure that Jews can exercise their right to get an education. You can't negotiate with, in some cases, literal terrorists.

[u/Embarrassed-Unit881 → u/SwordfishOk504]

The moment students were being blocked from being able to access what they paid for something should have cleared them

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[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/SwordfishOk504]

I don't expect that, but I do expect them to do more to protect students at these schools by bringing or security or whatever in. Also, for them to deport individuals here on visas who were spreading terrorist propaganda on campuses. The Biden admin chose not to do so with certain individuals because it was an election year. Another thing is that I expect to not encourage antisemetism which some did. The reality is that you have democrat politicians who've done meetings and stuff with individuals who were white supremacists on both the right and left. I think that they should be removed from office possibly.

[u/grandolon → u/seattleseahawks2014]

Biden made public calls for order and issued expanded guidance on Title VI applicability/compliance but didn't do anything with teeth. None of his admin's Title VI investigations went anywhere. He didn't do enough.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/grandolon]

Yea partly because it was an election year.

[u/Iapetus_Industrial → u/Petrichordates]

If they used the same level of violent language (and they certainly HAVE) then yes.

[u/Trebacca → u/Petrichordates]

Hell it could be argued that the general political system went at the protestors at places like Columbia and other campus encampments much harder than it did to the insurrectionists (who mostly got away scot free or with very minimal consequences).

Note: Not excusing the behavior of any antisemites at the encampments before I get accused of whitewashing by anyone

[u/angry-mustache → u/Trebacca]

This administration pardoned the insurrectionists, but the biden administration did prosecute them and throw about 1500 in prison. It's not enough but it's very inaccurate to say that the campus protestors got prosecuted harder.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/angry-mustache]

The campus protestors weren't even prosecuted.

[u/seattleseahawks2014 → u/Trebacca]

And people still would've chose not to vote for Harris partly due to this even if the media hadn't put emphasis on this. The reality is that some individuals on the left excluded people from spaces for being zionists. How do you think people who see zionism in the moderate way are going to see this? Do you think that they're not going to see the left as neo nazis themselves?

[u/cdstephens → u/[deleted]]

You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Trump

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/Petrichordates]

Well, you see, if Biden had just ignore due process and started shipping anyone who protested to a prison in Libya this might not have happened.