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Collin Sullivan (@csull@mastodon.social)

Collin Sullivan (@[email protected])

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Political science PhD student at Michigan: human rights, political violence, atrocity prevention. Research Fellow at @hrcberkeley. he/him. Go (Oakland) A's 💚💛

Ann Arbor, MI Katılım Mart 2009
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Looks like Sideshow Bob is in town.
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Collin Sullivan (@csull@mastodon.social)
A cool and (I think) little-known thing about Tim Walz is that when he was a high school teacher in Nebraska, he had his students do an exercise where they correctly predicted the Rwandan genocide a year before it happened. npr.org/2008/04/26/899…
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28 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Simpsons classic "Summer of 4ft. 2" aired for the first time.
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@BrynnTannehill Hi Brynn. I really enjoy and appreciate your writing on here. I study atrocity prevention and early warning (among other human rights-related things), and it would be great to be able to continue to read your posts on here, if you felt comfortable following back.
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Dan Slater@SlaterPolitics·
This thoughtful thread by @timurkuran gets us much, but not all, of the way there. I find it naïve in 2 respects: how sharply it separates speech from 1) disruption and 2) violence (1/6)
Timur Kuran@timurkuran

University students have every right to protest what they find undesirable, harmful, or unjust. Whether you agree is immaterial. If you don’t like their message, write a counter-message or organize a counter-protest. What’s not allowed is violence in any form or incitement to violence. In and of itself, calling for a single state, whether Jewish- or Palestinian, is not illegal. Nor does it amount to Antisemitism or Islamophobia. In either case, many people find the idea deeply offensive. But free speech is meaningless if it doesn’t include offensive speech. Calling Israel an “apartheid state” is an opinion. Likewise, equating Gazans with “terrorists” amounts to an opinion. As opinions, they are legal, irrespective of whether they are true. The university is the last place that should limit the expression of opinions. It should provide a safe forum where such characterizations can be evaluated, moderated, and, where baseless, discarded. Too many people wish to cleanse universities of claims they find offensive. University administrators should stand firm against such demands for censorship. What should be disallowed is only violence (such as poking a counter-protester with a flag), disruptive behavior (such as blocking traffic), and incitement to violence (such as calling for genocide). This is an opportune moment for university leaders to remind their faculty and students of the line between speech, which is broadly permissible, and violence, which never is. Administrations should also commit to enforcing that line impartially across groups. And all authority should be withdrawn from deranged administrators who have sown immense fear among faculty and students alike by equating speech with violence.

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@mike_petriello We saw this with the shift, too. It was so effective that it became entrenched as a new norm. In shift situations, no offensive counter was effective enough to make a different defensive strategy preferable. The only way to stop teams from adopting it was to ban it.
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