The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before: cnn.it/43GWlge
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Good trouble.
jun 1, 2025, 6:09 pm • 4 0 • view
Fascism in action against the First Amendment.
jun 2, 2025, 6:13 am • 1 0 • view
Israel is a far-right cause.
jun 1, 2025, 6:51 pm • 2 0 • view
One can have compassion for the starving Palestinian children and still be anti-Hamas. Only morons peddle the "this or that" narrative.
jun 2, 2025, 12:22 am • 36 0 • view
It's also important to note that Hamas exists because of the IDF. If you trap people in a prison and bomb then everyday of course some are going to violently retaliate
jun 2, 2025, 1:37 am • 23 0 • view
It's even worse than that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli...
jun 2, 2025, 1:28 pm • 7 0 • view
You don't even have to bomb them every day. You can keep them in a prison and periodically reduce their opportunity to earn a living because someone else did something, and treat them like dirt while they're working like dogs for very low pay, and fine them regularly, and withhold medicines, and --
jun 2, 2025, 2:31 am • 5 0 • view
It’s the fake higher ground to support the people but not their government. Couldn’t you take the same stance I supporting Israel but not their government? If you pick a side in this conflict it is just throwing gas on the fire and making peace and reconciliation more difficult.
jun 2, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view
Also one can be against Netanyahu and still care about the Israeli people and Jewish people everywhere. It's insane what Netanyahu is doing to the Palestinian children and families, but don't blame all Jews. That would be like the world blaming all Americans for the actions of Trump.
jun 2, 2025, 3:45 am • 7 0 • view
💯
jun 2, 2025, 3:50 am • 0 0 • view
“But don’t blame all Jews” Prove that happened here whatsoever. If you can’t, that’s basically an admission you want to label any opposition to the genocidal terrorist state of Israel as “hatred/blame” directed at “all Jews”
jun 2, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think you understood my comment.
jun 5, 2025, 3:24 am • 0 0 • view
You should’ve just stopped after three words
jun 5, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you have evidence that the MIT student actually did that, i.e. blame Jewish people overall, or are you just indulging in pointless and frankly harmful whataboutery? Obviously antisemitism must never be tolerated, but if someone has not been antisemitic, bringing it up functions as a smear.
jun 2, 2025, 6:50 am • 2 0 • view
jun 2, 2025, 12:18 am • 0 0 • view
Someone go tell Little Marco, he was very concerned about free speech earlier this week
jun 1, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
That's not America
jun 1, 2025, 5:45 pm • 23 1 • view
It's a perfect example of everything America has always been.
jun 1, 2025, 8:48 pm • 15 0 • view
it quite literally is
jun 1, 2025, 6:51 pm • 24 0 • view
It's both literally happening right now in America and in line with historical precedent in America
jun 1, 2025, 7:02 pm • 10 0 • view
It absolutely is, the universities were doing this shit when Biden was in charge.
jun 1, 2025, 9:28 pm • 0 0 • view
It definitely is!
jun 1, 2025, 7:03 pm • 2 0 • view
It very much is
jun 2, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
?????
jun 1, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Where are all the right wing “free speech absolutists” condemning this flagrant violation of free speech rights?
jun 1, 2025, 7:04 pm • 13 0 • view
The real free speech absolutists are defending her. The people I suspect you are alluding to were never free speech absolutists. Only free speech for 'me'.
jun 1, 2025, 10:20 pm • 2 0 • view
But "Freezepeach" is so important in academia.
jun 1, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 2, 2025, 6:45 am • 2 0 • view
"Their graduation, their rules," blah, blah, blah. Legally correct, morally wrong. This is the kind of forum where she was there to make a moral stand. The university is *supposed* to help young people develop so they make those moral stands. She obviously got it right with no help from them.
jun 1, 2025, 9:00 pm • 12 1 • view
Stand up for what you believe in, and the narrow minded among us are the ones who failed to recognize that israel is committing genocide for the sake of a land grab!
jun 2, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
She's the CLASS PRESIDENT. JFC.
jun 1, 2025, 9:48 pm • 1 0 • view
First Amendment, Schmirst Amendment. 🙄
jun 1, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Shame on you MIT
jun 1, 2025, 7:07 pm • 7 0 • view
I hope she showed up anyways. Make them physically restrain her from going.
jun 1, 2025, 6:35 pm • 6 0 • view
If I knew her I would have escorted her in. See how many students security would be willing to attack
jun 2, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
MIT? The actual MIT?
jun 1, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
she is a demented, deluded cunt.
jun 1, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Profiles of courage are not dead
jun 2, 2025, 4:09 am • 1 0 • view
I didn’t know MIT was pro genocide
jun 1, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view
#Gaza has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. Gaza is no longer just a local Palestinian issue, no, it has become a global cause that moves millions. The suffering, and hope of the people in Gaza concern us all.
jun 1, 2025, 5:48 pm • 32 2 • view
And being PRO-Gaza does NOT mean you are PRO-HAMAS. Personally I’m plain and simple AGAINST any war. Innocent people are killed because LEADERS say so.
jun 1, 2025, 6:08 pm • 20 0 • view
Westerners always say the most worthless stuff.
jun 1, 2025, 8:50 pm • 4 0 • view
resistance to oppression is legal and valid under international law
jun 1, 2025, 6:26 pm • 28 0 • view
that includes “by any means necessary” look it up
jun 1, 2025, 6:27 pm • 17 0 • view
Hamas has the same right to resist an ongoing genocide as the Jews did during the Holocaust. On October 7th they did not shoot at civilians or "rape" or "behead" anyone. That was all Israeli propaganda prepared in advance
jun 1, 2025, 9:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Free speech has died
jun 2, 2025, 12:57 am • 4 1 • view
At this point, this shit is a badge of honour.
jun 1, 2025, 7:40 pm • 5 0 • view
Freedom of speech my ass. Fuck Trump and every one that cows down and follows the pOS
jun 1, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
America, where we love the idea of free speech more than the practice
jun 1, 2025, 7:43 pm • 2 0 • view
It seems that Congress has not cornered the market for spinelessness. Somehow when higher education caves it seems (to me anyway) even worse than Congress. Colleges are supposed to stand for something.
jun 1, 2025, 6:48 pm • 2 0 • view
America is now fascist. Full stop.
jun 1, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
One can only hope that there exists within that 'America' enough brave people to turn that around. The U.S. used to be admired and thought of as a 'peace broker'. Now it's thought of as the main instigator of global warfare and unrest. Quite a comedown.
jun 1, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
When will most of realize that the kids have been right about this injustice all along
jun 2, 2025, 7:05 pm • 4 0 • view
Imagine someone replacing their approved speech with anti immigration speech.. would you still be promoting entitled spoilt brats with 500k debt :D
jun 1, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Somehow I think she sleeps just fine. Speaking out, and giving a voice to 1000s seems worth getting barred from a bullshit ceremony, to me.
jun 2, 2025, 3:18 am • 5 0 • view
WHAT ABOUT FREDOM OF SPEECHES?!?!
jun 1, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow y’all really don’t learn - bullies don’t stop. Quit giving in to the - #TinyHand #Weird #Taco
jun 1, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Because anti genocide means anti semitic
jun 1, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
. . . Or so those who support Israel and its killings say. Maybe 'being antisemitic' is going to become analogous to being courageous to speak out against mass murder.
jun 1, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
i don't believe her topic was appropriate for a graduation & also it was not the speech she submitted before hand as per protocol but then again trump's trophy wives & golf memories weren't appropriate at west point either-he used the graduation podium to lie & feed his ego
jun 2, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Shameful moment in history.
jun 1, 2025, 6:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at MIT, wouldn't be allowed at a MIT graduation today even if he was healthy enough to do so. And no class president of MIT is allowed to quote Noam Chomsky any more.
jun 1, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 0 • view
So no more 1st amendment. Just pure fascism
jun 1, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
As a usually proud @mit.edu alum, I am deeply disappointed by their opposition to free speech. Criticizing Netanyahu's violent government is not anti-semitic, any more than criticizing Saudi Prince MBS for murdering a @washingtonpost.com reporter is islamophobic bsky.app/profile/cnn....
jun 1, 2025, 7:17 pm • 36 1 • view
Denouncing the war in Gaza w/o denouncing Hamas or October 7th is not acceptable.
jun 1, 2025, 9:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes Hamas is a problem, but look at the numbers. Over 54,000 Palestinians have been killed. Is that an even remotely acceptable response to October 7th? Hell no! The Israeli government is committing genocide. Stuff like this is why a terrorist organization like Hamas exists.
jun 2, 2025, 12:41 am • 1 0 • view
Palestinians have the right to defend themselves
jun 2, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Boy you have shit for brains
jun 1, 2025, 9:59 pm • 25 0 • view
Neither of those things justify what the Israeli government is doing, and Netanyahu is easily responsible for the vast majority of the atrocities.
jun 1, 2025, 9:42 pm • 9 0 • view
Denouncing Hamas without denouncing the IOF for the record number of child murders in 2023 leading up to October is unacceptable.
jun 1, 2025, 10:11 pm • 9 0 • view
The School should have let her speak.
jun 1, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Unbelievable
jun 1, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
The US is disgracing itself for the world to see.
jun 1, 2025, 6:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Good. Fuck her and her self-importance. Also her lack of self-awareness, as a beneficiary of the caste system, is inpressive.
jun 2, 2025, 2:09 am • 1 0 • view
The state of higher education these days is pathetic. They should be applauding this woman for taking a stand and speaking out about what she believes, not caving in to fears of reprisal from the administration, which, I suspect, influenced this decision
jun 1, 2025, 7:01 pm • 10 0 • view
Streisand effect 👏
jun 2, 2025, 10:07 am • 2 0 • view
Still not sure if it is ignorance or willful stupidity... the Trump regime not knowing the difference between Israel the nation and the Jewish faith.
jun 1, 2025, 7:19 pm • 0 0 • view
But the rest of the world sure does know that the Jewish 'faith' has done little or nothing to speak out against Israel and its leader. So I guess Trump may not be so far off in his stupidity.
jun 1, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Plenty have spoken out. You hear what you want to hear, I guess.
jun 2, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Shameful. Enemies of free speech strike again to silence another voice speaking out for justice and against genocide.
jun 2, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
In her speech she accused the MIT administration of supporting genocide. That’s not helping Gaza or fairly criticizing Israel’s military response. It’s a self-righteous purity test.
jun 1, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh she should ignore the fact mit makes weapons that Israel uses in its genocide in Gaza??
jun 1, 2025, 11:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Let’s see a source on that.
jun 1, 2025, 11:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you joking? ras.mit.edu/grant-and-co...
jun 2, 2025, 12:01 am • 1 0 • view
These are US government funding sources. What does this have to do with funding the war in Gaza?
jun 2, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
The U.S. sends these weapons to Israel They also do direct research for the idf as I showed you in the other link
jun 2, 2025, 12:53 am • 0 0 • view
Which weapons? Basically what you are saying is that MIT must divest from all US DoD funding or it's supporting genocide?
jun 2, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
jun 2, 2025, 12:06 am • 2 0 • view
So ... if we believe this article .. this is MIT doing exactly what you wouldn't do if you support genocide.
jun 2, 2025, 12:58 am • 0 0 • view
MIT didn’t fire them
jun 2, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
Fire who? Nobody in this article is an MIT employee. Honestly, this all sounds like vibes with very little to actually back it up.
jun 2, 2025, 1:00 am • 1 1 • view
Sooooooo Fuck MIT.
jun 2, 2025, 1:00 am • 5 1 • view
DEPORT HER
jun 2, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I denounce the war in Gaza. Will you steal my job as a fucking pizza shop manager? Probably.
jun 1, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
We now go live to the “free speech is under attack on campus” crowd:
jun 1, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I guess it's long past time that we openly acknowledge support for Israel - and its massive killing of Palestinians - is supported by the right wing Republicans. We now need to hear from the Democrats who can take an opposing view.... but who've been strangely quiet & reluctant to do so for years.
jun 1, 2025, 6:44 pm • 3 0 • view
What are you talking about? The Democrats have been heard from and were in power when the genocide began and eagerly supplied the arms for the extermination. As recently as April the overwhelming majority of Democrats in the Senate voted to continue shipping bombs to be dropped on starving children!
jun 1, 2025, 6:48 pm • 9 0 • view
I think this was the point of the comment. Maybe I am misinterpreting. Many Democrats are complicit, so we need to have the others speak up and denounce their complicity.
jun 1, 2025, 7:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Let's see now... Republicans are in full support of arming Israel so that it can continue its mass murder of Palestinians. Democrats are largely silent on the issue of arming Israel, so are considered 'complicit'. WHO is left to challenge both Republicans & Democrats on the issue of arming Israel?
jun 1, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
85% of the congress is in full support of arming Israel to continue its genocide. This is not a partisan issue where Democrats are just remaining silent. They are fully on board with genocide.
jun 1, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
A corrupt U.S. president puts punishing tariffs on countries and his own companies "to save billions", but continues to fund a state of Israel whose main goal is to kill civilians and steal their lands. I guess the colour of *that* money is different.
jun 1, 2025, 9:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, this is what I ask myself. I don’t know.
jun 1, 2025, 10:47 pm • 0 0 • view
To be clear, this means the majority of both political Parties in the US are filled with war criminals who deserve to stand trial for crimes against humanity. We are beyond the need to speak up we are in stage where it's proper to be demanding arrests and trials.
jun 1, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
It's the majority of Democrats, we are beyond complicity, the US government under both Democrats & Republicans, is participant in this genocide. We must call a spade a spade, this is not a few bad apples it's the overwhelming majority.
jun 1, 2025, 7:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Hell, the Americans just elected a warmonger who takes great pleasure in upsetting allies and praising their enemies. Now he's trying to build a 'protective dome' over the US in anticipation of an attack from some country he's angered. And he wants Canada to help fund it. AMERICANS - wake up.
jun 1, 2025, 8:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump is a symptom of our problem not the cause, the nation has descended into fascism. That a demagogue has arisen to take advantage of the political condition of the nation is to be expected. We must address the root of the problem; fascist oligarchy.
jun 1, 2025, 8:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump and his supporters have really killed Free Speech in the U.S.A.
jun 2, 2025, 5:36 am • 7 0 • view
A country so disgraceful and lost that neo-Nazis can march through Jewish neighborhoods, but students cannot speak out against a genocide. Disgusting!
jun 2, 2025, 4:18 am • 6 1 • view
A hell of a speech.
jun 2, 2025, 12:56 am • 1 0 • view
She apparently lied about what she was going to say. What MIT did was appropriate
jun 1, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Standing with the oppressors is not courageous. Are you Jewish - or just like to see unarmed civilians annihilated?
jun 1, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Actually I am Jewish. So I am sure you will discredit my opinion. Protest the war in Gaza all you want. But if you don't follow the rules of the ceremony, don't cry when there is consequences.
jun 1, 2025, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
When "rules of ceremony" suppress 'freedom of speech'... you have truly lost concept of what is important - and what is intimidation and censorship. Maybe Jews don't care - as long as that suppression favours *their* side.
jun 1, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Free speech doesn't apply here. Would you be fine if she called for murder of a certain race? That's free speech too. She can express her free speech outside of the ceremoney? Why didn't she? Because she knew that nobody would pay attention to her.
jun 1, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Why bring up hypotheticals when we know what she said? And free speech does apply here because MIT adopted the below statement of free expression, which explicitly references the First Amendment:
jun 1, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Your prioritizing of “the rules of the ceremony” over the moral atrocity of our times is sufficient to discredit your opinion.
jun 1, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah 50,000 or more Gazans slaughtered is No biggie. Netan and his diabolical soldiers will reap God's wrath.
jun 1, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Whether you agree with her or not think of how dangerous all of this is. It's essentially denying people's freedom of speech or certain people's freedom of speech while allowing our big sweaty president the freedom to say anything he wants even when he's lying
jun 1, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, we now know where MIT stands. Guess they feel some affinity for Taco Man, who brags that his brilliant uncle once taught there and, as Trump implies, passed on his genes to a nephew who shows us every moment of every day what a stable genius he is.
jun 2, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
All of the graduates should have refused to attend the ceremony without her! Wtf! Netanyahu is committing genocide and we are pretending he’s not! And we are pretending that criticizing Netanyahu for his genocide is antisemitism. What bullshit!
jun 1, 2025, 10:23 pm • 15 1 • view
Yep, that's the shameful gaslighting peddled by this Admin
jun 2, 2025, 12:25 am • 3 0 • view
Facism
jun 1, 2025, 6:45 pm • 2 0 • view
When you throw a word like 'facism' out there it's good to know what it really means and how to spell it.
jun 1, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Fascism!!!!!!!!!
jun 1, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
OK. And my take? Fuck social media. A place where reading stories doesn't happen. It's headlines and pitchforks to be seen. I thought Bluesky might be different. It's not.
jun 1, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Not pro-Israel or 'Jewish' enough?
jun 1, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
How old are you? PLEASE tell me you're under 22. Because I just can't believe adults in the world would run with something like that.
jun 1, 2025, 8:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Then leave... instead of finding and jumping in on a thread to pounce your righteousness upon anyone.
jun 1, 2025, 6:58 pm • 3 0 • view
OR....don't post nonsense on social media, to be seen as part of the "team," and not expect someone to respond. That's the "social" part. At the very least, and I'm serious about his, READ the stories first and then respond. That's a self-respect thing. Something everyone should do.
jun 1, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude, any "team" you're on....count me out. Stop policing people. You're calling people out on errors or thinking you are the only one who reads stories and is mighty narcissistic.
jun 1, 2025, 7:16 pm • 2 0 • view
But you didn't read the story CoBe. And you know it. Probably not best to shoot the messenger. My point? READ the stories you scream about. And learn was fascism REALLY is. Bluesky shows me why Democrats lose. And I'm sick of it. I'm done now. Have a good one.
jun 1, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Buh bye!!!!
jun 1, 2025, 7:36 pm • 1 0 • view
No glasses on....and what's your point?
jun 1, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
OK. Fascism is a tricky word to spell. But if you're going to use it you should know how to spell it. Glasses or not. But that aside, this is NOT fascism. This is a private organization enforcing their own rules. If you'd looked in to the issue, which you didn't, you'd know WHY they banned her.
jun 1, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude, I just read a little from your page here, and you're very opinionated. Seems like you're very full of yourself, so I'll take a hard pass on having a conversation with you. Thnx
jun 1, 2025, 6:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Cowards
jun 2, 2025, 8:23 am • 0 0 • view
I'm so sorry they are so afraid of Truth. We must find where courage ran away to-maybe it was deported! Keep talking, keep walking, keep Truth, love of country, love of humanity, love leading the fight, relentlessly, persistently. Do not abandon our Fierce Love of Humanity, no matter what Fear tries
jun 1, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Because Trump might find out and send nasty tweets and launch another vendetta! Cowards! Grab your red hats and lick your lips cause you’re about to start kissing a lot of ass and licking a lot boots. MAGA!
jun 1, 2025, 6:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Close the door on college, get out in to the real world and do or say whatever the hell you want. But MIT, and others, need to start teaching them something valuable to know. "My ball...my rules." That's a good lesson for life.
jun 1, 2025, 8:31 pm • 1 0 • view
It's actually very valuable to know what kind of cowards will bootlick for the sake of defending genocide.
jun 1, 2025, 8:47 pm • 7 0 • view
Might be your criteria as "a good lesson for life".... but most would probably agree that a Constitutional right would overrule your choice.
jun 1, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view
How dare she say something before her graduation ceremony. We must prohibit her from even attending. "My ball, my rules" is the black-and-white thinking of conservatism.
jun 1, 2025, 8:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah. I assumed the pitchfork might come out with the "conservative" accusation. It's what happens to those who live in a black and white world of purity tests. Did you read why MIT decided to make their decision? Do you not see any validity in it?
jun 1, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view
“MIT supports free expression but stands by its decision, which was in response to the individual deliberately and repeatedly misleading Commencement organizers and leading a protest from the stage, disrupting an important Institute ceremony,” She lied out of ENTIRELY selfish reasons. Screw her.
jun 1, 2025, 8:41 pm • 0 0 • view
What did she "mislead" them about.... and what did she "lie" about that benefited HER "selfishly"?
jun 1, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Welcome to Magadonia. Check your First Amendment at the door.
jun 1, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Welcome to the Liberty country where the FIRST amendment is to protect free speech. Seems like it was before America became Great Again.
jun 1, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Seems like it was missing for a helluva long time. Democrats are still in favour of arming the evil government of Israel. The rest of the world is much more wary of that 'US ally' than it is of any muslim country.
jun 1, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
That's ridiculous! She just made a speech, for God's sake -- she said some words. It's not like she blew up the chemistry building! Do those admin pinheads not remember ANYTHING about when THEY were in college??
jun 2, 2025, 2:28 am • 2 0 • view
Denying platforms to people opposed to the genocide being perpetrated by the Palestinian people = Islamophobic.
jun 1, 2025, 6:10 pm • 2 0 • view
What a free country, huh.
jun 1, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
A university graduation is no place for a political speech. MIT has nothing to do with the war against Hamas.
jun 1, 2025, 8:39 pm • 0 0 • view
There is nothing political about saying genocide is bad, and there is no "war against Hamas."
jun 1, 2025, 8:49 pm • 4 0 • view
fuck MIT
jun 1, 2025, 7:14 pm • 2 0 • view
EVERY American should be denouncing Israel's Gaza Genocide!
jun 1, 2025, 11:17 pm • 35 0 • view
I didn’t read anywhere in the article where it said if she was a US citizen or in the US under any type of Visa as a temporary resident. As a US citizen, she has every right to exercise the rights that are given to her under the US Constitution. As a citizen, bring suit against the university.
jun 1, 2025, 7:17 pm • 3 0 • view
AI is never the right source, even when it happens to say correct things.
jun 1, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 0 • view
If you find something more accurate.... or with quicker response.... please let us know.
jun 1, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
The article shows the name of the journalist that wrote it. But still it’s a CNN publication and they fail to say whether is a US citizen or temporary resident.
jun 1, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
CNN is one of the only U.S. publications that can be trusted to report without overt bias for the Trump administration. Free speech rights don't apply to only US citizens. Maybe look that up.
jun 1, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
As a person, she has the right to exercise her speech rights. Nowhere in the I Amendment does it say "citizen."
jun 1, 2025, 8:27 pm • 4 0 • view
Listen, I don’t support anything about the trump administration at all. I think he’s a psychopathic narcissist, & at the very least he should be impeached. But, there are some stipulations in the visas that don’t allow political demonstrations. The constitution is very broad, but has limitations
jun 1, 2025, 10:30 pm • 0 0 • view
All the people against her would have fully supported our involvement in Vietnam.
jun 1, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Free speech for me, not for thee
jun 1, 2025, 5:45 pm • 27 0 • view
Shame on MIT. People are being murdered. What she did was brave and I don’t believe she will ever regret using her voice to help the helpless. Proud of her. ❤️
jun 1, 2025, 6:45 pm • 6 0 • view
She'd be welcome to finish any education in Canada. We now have a Prime Minister who has taken a stance against Israel's attack on the Palestinian people. That was sorely lacking with the last PM.
jun 1, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
WTF
jun 1, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
MIT supporting fascism.
jun 1, 2025, 6:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump’s MAGA Republican base includes ICE Gestapo and millions of Neo-Nazis who hate Jews and People of Color. Led by the life-long racist, Donald Trump, these MAGAts are trying to convert the USA from a Constitutional Republic into a Fascist, Christian-Nationalist, White-Supremacist Kleptocracy.
jun 1, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Why?
jun 1, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Surely CNN can get Jake Crapper to feature this story as BREAKING NEWS, then, after reading this headline, immediately changing the topic to “Biden’s mental decline” (as featured in his book available on Amazon) 💩
jun 1, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
What are these schools DOING???
jun 1, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Henry Kissinger is getting an erection in Hell, which the devil is stabbing with a red hot fork
jun 2, 2025, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
can’t have people denouncing war now, can we?
jun 1, 2025, 5:47 pm • 199 0 • view
*denouncing genocide
jun 1, 2025, 6:45 pm • 158 0 • view
Free speech? No. Shithole country.
jun 1, 2025, 6:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Let me guess. Talking about ending the war in Gaza is considered antisemitism. 🙄🙄🙄
jun 2, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Chicken MIT
jun 1, 2025, 7:50 pm • 3 0 • view
She should sue #MIT on #FirstAmendment rights It's NOT #antisemetic to criticize #israel policies, especially when that policy is an illegal #genocide perpetrated by an accused #WarCriminal
jun 1, 2025, 5:59 pm • 9 0 • view
No first amendment rights in America anymore
jun 1, 2025, 8:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Disgusting move by MIT!!
jun 1, 2025, 7:04 pm • 2 0 • view
#SHAME #MIT!! W T F?
jun 1, 2025, 7:01 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 1, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
TDS (Trump Distortion Field) in normal use. Why is he held to no standards at all? This is how it is bad for Biden (who is TF out of office now)
jun 1, 2025, 9:50 pm • 2 0 • view
😡
jun 1, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Stay strong…. Thank you for standing against genocide.
jun 1, 2025, 11:23 pm • 17 0 • view
👍
jun 1, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Here comes the retribution in 1, 2 3.
jun 1, 2025, 6:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Speaking the truth in USA gets you punished.
jun 1, 2025, 6:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Time to fucking end MIT. Every fucking brick torn down
jun 1, 2025, 5:49 pm • 0 0 • view
uh.....are you wanting to make the world a better place? Whether any one of us can move the needle a lot or little, that is what each of us should be trying to do.
jun 1, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes I do and when universities punish students for free speech they are no longer academic institutes, they betray our country and they should be ended. Better academic institutions will emerge that honor our rights as Americans
jun 1, 2025, 6:32 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm going to argue that there are degrees of severity here. I agree MIT wronged the student, and the rest of us by extension. I also think that reform, restitution, and rehabilitation are possible for people and for institutions.
jun 1, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
False, they did it as they bent the knee to a wannabe dictator. They have lost their credibility, they have betrayed their own purpose let alone our country and they need to be fucking ended. An MIT degree should be as worthless as one from liberty university or one of these other fake colleges
jun 1, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I can't even.
jun 1, 2025, 6:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Then fucking don’t, we’re at war
jun 1, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Since when has denouncing war and genocide. I remember the good old days prior to 2016 when it was actively encouraged.
jun 1, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
America has turned into a place where truly horrible and heartless people live
jun 1, 2025, 9:42 pm • 9 1 • view
"the war in Gaza"
jun 1, 2025, 6:51 pm • 4 0 • view
Cowardly College.
jun 1, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
america under fascism
jun 1, 2025, 7:07 pm • 2 0 • view
jun 1, 2025, 5:54 pm • 13 1 • view
jun 1, 2025, 5:53 pm • 106 7 • view
1st amendment doesn't apply any more? Denouncing a WAR is bad? Jeesh. We are living in a frightened world. Fascism.
jun 1, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
It sounds like she was denouncing MIT.
jun 2, 2025, 4:35 am • 1 0 • view
My respect for MIT just bottomed out.
jun 1, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Hero
jun 1, 2025, 7:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Denouncing the war in Gaza is not the same thing as "Pro-Palestinian" speech. I have no problem with either, but words mean things. You'd think professional word people would know that.
jun 1, 2025, 9:16 pm • 54 1 • view
CNN is a key member of the media cabal that sets boundaries to American speech.
jun 2, 2025, 3:28 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly! They use certain terms to push buttons. I have also seen them use “pro-hamas” which is really despicable. It’s utter BS because we’re talking about Netanyahu and the Israeli army intentionally targeting and murdering children!!
jun 1, 2025, 10:16 pm • 10 0 • view
How strange a country we live in. Our president, author of the Muslim ban and supporter of neo-Nazis and KKK accepting gargantuan Muslim bribes and punishing Palestinians for speaking out against Israeli genocide all while being Putin's puppet. What an evil freak show.
jun 2, 2025, 1:12 am • 3 1 • view
Naziamerica
jun 1, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
E a tal da primeira emenda? 🤔
jun 2, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Remember freedom of speech? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
jun 1, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
No Free Speech in America then?
jun 2, 2025, 12:29 am • 12 1 • view
Never has been.
jun 2, 2025, 3:28 am • 3 0 • view
I support her!
jun 3, 2025, 1:38 am • 2 0 • view
SHAME ON YOU MIT
jun 1, 2025, 7:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, so much for the right to freedom of speech.
jun 1, 2025, 8:56 pm • 2 0 • view
She's a smart lady, I'm sure she knew there would be consequences for making graduation political. No one wants to hear that shit at graduation.
jun 1, 2025, 7:03 pm • 3 0 • view
You mean you don’t want to hear it.
jun 1, 2025, 7:23 pm • 5 0 • view
No one wants to hear shit they find offensive. If someone got up there & called all Muslims a bunch of terrorists or all Jews a bunch of murderers or all Christians a bunch of pedophiles I'd say the same thing. Students are told what's acceptable and she made a decision. I admire her for doing that.
jun 1, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
🥱
jun 1, 2025, 11:40 pm • 1 0 • view
La polices des idées, version étasunienne. Ça donne froid dans le dos.
jun 1, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Does that mean that MIT supports the mass slaughter of innocent civilians?
jun 1, 2025, 6:36 pm • 6 0 • view
I'd say it certainly appears so, because they're definitely not supporting her right to express an opinion that would indicate otherwise.
jun 1, 2025, 6:43 pm • 5 0 • view
Just YESTERDAY, Israeli forces fired on people who were desperately reaching for food for themselves and starving families. And today... they have issued a denial. Bodies of innocent children and women don't lie.
jun 1, 2025, 6:47 pm • 4 0 • view
Stop Am. fascism now! Our First Amendment rights are being violated by this dictatorial genocide enabling bullying extremist Kleptocratic govt. CNN whitewashes the criminality of this Trump led authoritarian regime. There is evidence that 4 million votes of Black Am. were thrown out in 2024.
jun 2, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Can I just say, that the grinding violent genocidal demolition of Gaza absolutely *should* be criticized, by everyone at MIT and everyone everywhere else.
jun 2, 2025, 12:35 am • 2 0 • view
"There will be no First Amendmenting in Donald Jesus Trump's Amerikka"
jun 1, 2025, 5:59 pm • 2 0 • view
But I was told wokeness was the threat to free speech on campus
jun 2, 2025, 1:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Good.
jun 2, 2025, 11:38 am • 3 0 • view
trump must have been in charge of the ceremony!
jun 1, 2025, 8:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Yo Bari Weiss isn't this your shit? Nvm you're just a hack
jun 1, 2025, 6:36 pm • 1 0 • view
wtf is wrong with this world??
jun 1, 2025, 6:21 pm • 3 0 • view
Free speech doesn't extend to criticism of Israel. apparently
jun 2, 2025, 3:26 am • 22 0 • view
Fuck you @cnn.com .....you enabled this by selling TF out 🙄
jun 1, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Not yet reported: Graduating students at Vassar turned their back on the President’s graduation address and handed her notes as they walked across the stage informing her that as alums they will donate zero cents until Vassar divests from Israeli-related weapons holdings. I liked their style.
jun 1, 2025, 7:18 pm • 25 2 • view
Simple, elegant and effective. Women respond with grace and dignity.
jun 1, 2025, 9:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Co-ed since ‘69, but yes, this sentiment exactly.
jun 1, 2025, 9:27 pm • 2 0 • view
@torekeland.bsky.social 🤔
jun 1, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Just voice your support for the slaughter of starving children trying desperately to get food because otherwise you hate Jews, and you’ll be just fine. Just smile and ignore your natural empathy for other humans, you antisemitic shit.
jun 1, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Put on a keffiyeh, win stupid prizes.
jun 1, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Free speech for some?
jun 1, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Critical thinking at American universities is so passe.
jun 1, 2025, 6:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Outrageous. MIT sucking up to Trump maybe?
jun 1, 2025, 6:19 pm • 1 0 • view
She should have trusted the administration with a copy of her Actual Speech instead of fooling them. Handing them a reason to punish her that has nothing to do with he right to speak freely. It’s unfortunate because she never mentioned the Jewish tradition. She only criticized govt and MIT.
jun 1, 2025, 11:38 pm • 1 0 • view
so MIT has zero spine
jun 1, 2025, 6:42 pm • 4 0 • view
Appalling.
jun 1, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Not enough punishment for her actions! She is barred from walking at a ceremony. She should be barred from getting her diploma! She used a stage, broke the rules and spread falsehoods!
jun 2, 2025, 1:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Who does she think she is, a member of an academic community engaged in the search for truth?
jun 2, 2025, 2:47 pm • 5 0 • view
“We try to raise intelligent, moral, courageous students here at MIT. No, not like that! The kind that are pro-genocide”
jun 1, 2025, 6:43 pm • 10 0 • view
RW/CNN SUCK! RW BS CORP'1% MEDIA! 💩 ☠️ 🤬 😜 😱
jun 1, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Freedom of speech is one of the biggest bullshit that United Mistakes sell to the world.
jun 1, 2025, 7:03 pm • 1 0 • view
This isn’t about protocol as MIT claims—it’s about punishment for speech that challenges power. Would a white male student have been banned for going off-script to support the Israeli government? I doubt it.
jun 2, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Unbelievably
jun 2, 2025, 12:13 am • 0 0 • view
Goddamn America is full of fucking cowards.
jun 1, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
No... just like the eras of the Vietnam and Iraq wars, educated students at major universities & colleges took to the streets and challenged their own government. Many died in that movement. The 'brave' were present, they were determined, & they fought back. This time around, some didn't even vote.
jun 1, 2025, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
This is unacceptable.
jun 2, 2025, 5:38 am • 1 0 • view
Higher Education ? Free Speech? Achievement? MIT leadership or obvious lack there of? Sad, isn't it?
jun 1, 2025, 9:46 pm • 0 0 • view
She was the class president, presumably elected by her peers. Why should she need MIT's pre-approval ? It's a university, not a high school. A graduation speech addresses challenges graduates will face in the world they are about to enter. Surely, the situation in Gaza is one of those challenges.
jun 1, 2025, 8:27 pm • 8 0 • view
Her speech was the day before. She was barred from attending her graduation ceremony for a speech she gave on a different day.
jun 1, 2025, 8:35 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m sure the free speech absolutists will be furious about this. Also, MIT should go fuck themselves.
jun 2, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
This is shameful, and disgraceful.
jun 1, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
#FuckMIT
jun 1, 2025, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Talk me more about the "Land of freedom"
jun 2, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
If she was informed of potential penalties ahead of time and chose to do it anyway, that's her choice. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. We can argue about the subject matter but many schools HS/College put limits on Commencement speech and have for years,
jun 1, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Why would there be "potential penalties" for speaking out against a one-sided war that has mass casualties?
jun 1, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Schools are allowed to have input with speakers. It happens all the time. They usually review the topic and many times the speech inself. She can speak her conscience, but she likely knew what that meant.
jun 2, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
So much for free speech. #firstamendment
jun 1, 2025, 5:59 pm • 9 0 • view
The party that lambastes the liberals over PC shows its true colors.
jun 1, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, there is. It is political It ignores the tragedy of October 7th that started all this. It ignores the fact Gaza elected Hamas. Or the fact Hamas still holds hostages & refuses to surrender. There were Jewish students in that class & it was inappropriate & selfish.
jun 1, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
We're all learning that American freedom of speech is myth, as is international law.
jun 1, 2025, 9:05 pm • 60 1 • view
Get AIPAC the F out of our lives/country.
jun 1, 2025, 6:09 pm • 8 0 • view
AIPAC is just a tool of US imperial interests, it has very little power in itself. The US empire as a whole has to fall apart.
jun 2, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Genocide ain't popular.
jun 1, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
MIT supports ethnic cleansing?
jun 1, 2025, 5:54 pm • 65 0 • view
They at least support pretending it isn't happening when they know it is. So, yes.
jun 1, 2025, 7:28 pm • 15 0 • view
No. They support keeping politics out of graduation ceremonies
jun 1, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
You’re right, politics and higher education should be mutually exclusive 🙄
jun 1, 2025, 7:39 pm • 10 0 • view
During some times, its appropriate to exclude it. Such as during a celebration.
jun 1, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
No during a baptism is a bad time, but at a ceremony commencing entrance into the world as adult, functioning members of society is a PERFECT time.
jun 1, 2025, 8:03 pm • 7 0 • view
So you would be fine if she gave a pro life speech and attack women who have abortions as baby murderers, right?
jun 1, 2025, 8:05 pm • 1 0 • view
In fact those have been done before. It is not MIT's graduation ceremony. It is the student's graduation ceremony.
jun 1, 2025, 8:23 pm • 5 0 • view
No. MIT is holding the ceremony. If the students want to do their own ceremony, they can have whatever rules they want
jun 1, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m sorry it’s too hard for you to admit that silencing opposition to genocide is a bad actually on only fascists support
jun 2, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
No. There is never a wrong time to denounce apartheid, war, and genocide.
jun 1, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 1 • view
Do what you want. But either follow the rules or get punished
jun 1, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
MIT has the right to make such rules and enforce them, and we have the right to criticize them for it. That being anti-genocide is deemed a kind of political commentary that is unwelcome—what a luxury to be able to ignore the carnage and instead “party” or whatever—is pathetic, cowardly, or worse.
jun 1, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for admitting you will against people out to the Nazis at the first opportunity you can, simply so you can “follow the rules”
jun 2, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
“Laaaaand of the freeeEeeEEEEeeee”
jun 1, 2025, 7:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Silencing people who oppose genocide literally IS politics. Next delusional talking point meant to defend far right fascists & their allies please
jun 2, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Freedom of speech is dying in broad daylight, more to come. #Resist
jun 1, 2025, 8:40 pm • 1 0 • view
#HolocaustHarris actively excluded American Muslims from her campaign because she couldn't answer their questions about genocide
jun 1, 2025, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view
For sure she didn’t win, the alternative has been much worse. My heart breaks for the Palestinian people. War is not the answer for sure.
jun 1, 2025, 9:55 pm • 0 0 • view
free speech is no longer a thing in America.
jun 2, 2025, 12:26 am • 0 0 • view
Unclear why this is viewed as a freedom of speech issue. The job of the speaker is to celebrate the graduating seniors and be welcoming to all students and their families. The speaker is not entitled to have MIT deliver to her a captive audience to hear her particular political views.
jun 1, 2025, 8:36 pm • 3 0 • view
What is political about saying genocide is bad?
jun 1, 2025, 8:49 pm • 8 0 • view
Gotta be kidding. If you ask her, she'd say her speech was political.
jun 1, 2025, 8:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Why are your only two posts on this website both in support of genocide?
jun 1, 2025, 9:10 pm • 8 0 • view
Haven't said anything about that. Why don't you tell us why MIT is required to deliver to a student a platform to give her personal political views to a captive audience.
jun 1, 2025, 9:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone is required to take a moral stance against genocide.
jun 1, 2025, 9:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Really? Why doesn't Vemuri have a moral duty to speak out for the hostages? And why does MIT have a moral duty to divest from companies who make the weapons Ukraine needs to defend against murderous Russian aggression? Vemuri is entitled to her beliefs, not to be given an audience.
jun 1, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
I think there's absolutely a moral duty to speak out on the many, many, many Palestinian hostages the IDF have taken. How are you against Russian aggression and not against the far more brutal aggression Israel has launched against Palestine?
jun 1, 2025, 10:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Like Vemuri, you too are entitled to your beliefs. But throughout, you have been at pains to avoid the fact that this doesn't require MIT to deliver Vemuri an audience for her views, any more than it would be obligated to do that for someone with opposing, or just different, views.
jun 1, 2025, 11:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone is required to stand against genocide. Being against it isn't a "view." Why is every one of your posts on this platform a defense of genocide?
jun 2, 2025, 12:17 am • 2 0 • view
From the MIT commencement address 2019 (Bloomberg wasn’t punished)
jun 1, 2025, 9:22 pm • 1 0 • view
WTF? Graduation speeches at major universities are political Here is HRC, when she used to be a decent human, speaking at her commencement
jun 2, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
Way to buckle and cave to a Fascist MIT.
jun 1, 2025, 6:10 pm • 5 0 • view
Shame on MIT!
jun 1, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
When you go to school in a white supremacist country you have to stop being surprised. Sorry for your pain. Now keep up the fight. No time for tears.
jun 2, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Shame MIT
jun 1, 2025, 7:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Is America living in 2025 or in 1984. Big Brother is watching you. 😞
jun 1, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Reported for false information
jun 1, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It shouldn’t make a difference but the headline said she made a pro-Palestinian speech and the story said she delivered a speech denouncing the war in Gaza.
jun 1, 2025, 6:08 pm • 4 0 • view
MIT administration should be making these speeches, protecting their students. Students have more backbone than staff.
jun 1, 2025, 7:09 pm • 2 0 • view
So much for free speech under the orange racist baby's regime
jun 1, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow, after all the aggravation Harvard has endured, I thought their neighbor would be just a bit more tolerant. I am not sure my grandfather would approve of what his alma mater did!
jun 1, 2025, 6:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I guess Ehud Olmert was also not welcome. www.newsweek.com/ex-israeli-p...
jun 1, 2025, 6:03 pm • 19 0 • view
Queen shit
jun 1, 2025, 9:47 pm • 3 0 • view
Is this America or Russia? You may not agree with her views, but she has a right to express them. Is MIT afraid the orange felon will cut their funding? Disgraceful over reach.
jun 1, 2025, 6:00 pm • 47 0 • view
Anyone who disagrees is a bloodthirsty maniac, why would they give a shit about free speech
jun 1, 2025, 7:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Is this America or Russia? You may not agree with her views, but she has a right to express them. Is the university scared the orange felon might cut their funding?
jun 1, 2025, 5:57 pm • 7 0 • view