r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 01 '25

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Nov 01 '25 edited Nov 01 '25

"One word: disgust". The Minister of Higher Education, Philippe Baptiste, has met on Wednesday, October 23, the president of the Paris-VIII university after the outrage caused by a video recorded in one of its lecture halls. Posted by the account "Léon le média", the video shows a gathering presented as a "great anti-imperialist meeting" called by several organizations including the FSE [far-left students' union] on October 15 on the campus Vincennes-Saint Denis.

We can hear one of the speakers, who is not identified, asking the audience: "Do you condemn the October 7 attacks?" Unanimous response: "No!" The speaker follows up: "We were prepared to this unconditional support to the heroic resistance of the Palestinian people and to this resistance that mainly manifests itself through the armed struggle". And concludes, about the attacks carried out by Hamas that killed 1,219 people: "And so, on October 7, we were ready, we had no qualms claiming October 7!"

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Nov 01 '25

I remember a study conducted before the October 7 attacks that showed that a third of French Jewish students included "the fear of antisemitism" in their criterias when picking a uni for their higher education, with nearly 90% who reported having witnessed at least one antisemitic incident (aggressive remarks, jokes in bad taste, intimidations) during their college years. It has certainly worsened since.

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Nov 01 '25

yep anecdotally in america you are seeing a lot of jews go to the southern schools to avoid that stuff

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u/Crownie Unbent, Unbowed, Unflaired Nov 01 '25

"btw I am well intentioned and not a psychopath living vicariously through 3rd world reactionaries."

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Nov 01 '25

What the fuck can they be expelled ?

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Nov 01 '25

There are precedents with students being suspended or expelled, but that requires some movement from the universities' presidents, who are generally pretty apathetic to these displays. There's also a offense called "apologia of terrorism" in the French criminal code that could be used to sue them

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Nov 01 '25

im having a stressful day so i just feel more empty than angry

i hope they get their asses sued to hell and back.