Then you need start reading from more diverse sources.
Just in the past week, for example - there's Khymani James, still currently front and center within the protest movement at Columbia, who was recorded earlier in the year saying "Zionists don't deserve to live" and "You shouldn't be surprised to see me murdering Zionists":
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/nyregion/columbia-student...
And the assault on Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad by an identified member of the local activist community:
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-797910
In general the right wing vastly overexaggerates the violent aspects of the protest movement. But beyond question it has its share of assholes.
I'm not labeling the "whole protest movement" as anything.
Go find someone or something else to direct your excess energy at, please.
Ok maybe not. What you did do, however, was accuse a person of misdirection, when your initial comment is itself a misdirection from the greater issue -- ~34 thousand people dead and the survivors in largely unlivable conditions with the full support of the government of this country; and the universities investing into the industry supporting it all. Interesting that 'ethical purity' of genocidal statements of high-ranking members of the Israeli government as the bombing began do not get people concerned much and it is casually rationalized away -- even though they actually did and do have the power to act on those threats, and have evidently acted on them as we have been seing over the past 6 months. Yet here we are spending time debating ethical purity of 1-2 college students, with no actual power, that have made questionable comments, out of thousands protesting, while the mass killing is still ongoing. That is the bigger misdirection, with more dire consequences.
> Go find someone or something else to direct your excess energy at, please.
One might be able to ridicule and patronize comments such as mine in a different time, if not for the ongoing slaughter in Gaza that we are witnessing in real time. Trivialization of it through misdirection is something worthy of pushing back against.
If he's an agent, he's a spectacularly successful one!