Clueless Columbia protester demands school get ‘basic humanitarian aid’ to pro-terror rioters: ‘Do you want students to die?’
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A clueless Columbia University protester demanded Tuesday that the school help get “basic humanitarian aid” such as food and water to the anti-Israel rioters illegally occupying a campus building.
“Like, could people please have a glass of water?’’ the young woman told reporters outside Hamilton Hall, which a defiant mob of pro-terror protesters violently stormed early Tuesday and took over.
“Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you? If the answer is no, then you should allow basic, I mean, it’s crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for,’’ the protester said, according to footage posted to X.
Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:
"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'." pic.twitter.com/vNczSAM4T1
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 30, 2024
An incredulous reporter replied, “It seems like you’re sort of saying, ‘We want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food and water.’’’
The protester replied, “Nobody’s asking them to bring anything.
Asked if the university had tried to stop supplies from being brought to the illegal occupiers, the protester admitted she actually didn’t know.
“We are looking for a commitment from them that they will not stop it,’’ the woman said. “I do not know to what extent it has been attempted. But we’re looking for a commitment.’’
Video of people passing food to women inside a gate around Columbia was posted to X on Tuesday.
An organizer of the university’s weekslong anti-Israel encampment also whined Tuesday about the campus lockdown — claiming it was “making life incredibly difficult’’ for students.
Sueda Polat, a grad student at the prestigious Manhattan school, seemed oblivious to the fact that rioters from the pup-tent city illegally erected on Columbia’s campus caused the major education disruption by hijacking Hamilton Hall.
She boasted that the building occupiers were not leaving “anytime soon’’ — and that they were being protected by members of the faculty helping to encircle the site.
Polat scoffed that the most severe school repercussion to date — threatened possible expulsion for participating students — would only cause protesters to dig their heels in even more.
“Today they locked down the university in an unprecedented way, making life incredibly difficult for the thousands of students who need access to this campus on a daily basis,’’ Polat said of the school.
“There are students here doing their thesis defenses, there’s members of staff who have research work,” she added.
“By closing the university, they have stopped the function of the university, whereas the student protests have never done that,’’ Polat claimed — even as many students have described severe hardship continuing their studies and even getting food on campus because of the chaos.
The protest leader blamed the mob’s take-over of the historic building on “an autonomous group of students” angry that “obstinance’’ and “arrogance’’ by Columbia stopped negotiations between the school and demonstrators.
One of the protesters’ main demands is for Columbia to divest from companies involved with Israel, which declared war on Hamas in Gaza after the Palestinian terror group’s massacre in Israel on Oct. 7.
“The university shouldn’t be surprised there is an escalation in protest behavior on this campus,’’ Polat said. “[School administrators] kept us occupied for 11 to 12 days when we were negotiating with them, sometimes for 10 hours a day, and consequently got no results from those negotiations.
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The demands from leftists to have their terrorism catered by university reads like a Babylon Bee article.
Yea, I thought that was pretty funny. Just stay put. When you get to jail they have to feed you.
The new protestor chant:
From the river to the sea, please send us KFC
I'm glad I am old enough to die before total twits like this student become the face of America and have any power.
They've adopted all the neo-marxist lingo and signed onto the progressive hive mind and are ready, willing able to lead the next maoist cultural revolution if only they can remain pampered and suffer no inconveniences or consequences.
We can't survive as a country if they ever actually obtain power.
Add to this that they can't comprehend how anyone can possibly see things differently than they do. They can only view it as evidence that they are right, because there could not be an argument that could justify opposition to their cause. An argument against them doesn't even have to be heard, let alone considered because they are so obviously right.
That is how this girl can ask for these things. Her cause is so obviously right, in her view, that she can't comprehend why anyone would deny her.
To be fair, we weren't all that bright back in the 60's when we were protesting Vietnam. Although it does seem like the current crop is more clueless than we were.
The current crop Is definitely more clueless.
Her interview is going viral for obvious reasons. I find it hard to believe it's actually real, but it is
Her biography is also too good to make up. She analyzes "poetry through a Marxian lens" and naturally was a progressive activist before being allowed to teach at Columbia. I don't know how Columbia's reputation ever recovers from this and I have no idea what purpose paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to be educated by a genuine idiot like this serves.
An indictment of the entire university.
Another useless excuse who will want their college paid for by hard-working American taxpayers while she reads poems and does not serve as a useful member of society.
College loan forgiveness is almost as dumb as free college …. But not quite.
Still wondering if that loan forgiveness is going to show up on a credit report/ check, if it does that's grounds for a landlord to deny a rental app.
Didn't pay your loan/ bill, don't qualify to rent.
In my opinion, the purpose is to disassociate young minds from reality. You take a fundamentally flawed philosophy, such as Marxism, and teach all the technical terms to them. There are a lot of technical terms involved. To understand Marx, you have to spend a lot of time trying to figure how all the terms make a cohesive whole. Once the student has the whole picture, they make the mistake of not realizing they've only been learning a philosophy rather than reality. Their teachers help them along with mistaking it for something real by any means they can. And Marxism allows for a lot of really immoral thinking in order to achieve its goals. The "struggle" is justification for a lot of nasty stuff, as we've seen in every Communist country ever.
My generation and my forefather's generation fought to hold back Marxism but they snuck in through colleges and universities engendered by the Frankfurt school of thought on Marxism and other institutions. Now we are losing our country through slow poison and I'm wondering if it is too late.
Anyway, this is why she works there. You don't accidentally hire someone like this.
Dumbass.
Today I heard that Columbia had 36,000 students, 14,000 of which are on student visas.
The Columbia administration has gladly surrendered to the mob.
Time for mass deportations
More empirical evidence that brick and mortar colleges, specifically Ivy League colleges, are a failed business model.
Don’t waste your money on nonsense like this.
But you are going to pay off the loans for these idiots
Be happy to, as long as they reimburse me and mine for ours that were responsibly paid for as agreed upon.
Blah, blah, blah … believe it when I see it …
Hamilton Hall has now been cleared and secured.
Probably just more catch and release.
Useless …..
At UCLA, progressive protesters are denying Jews access to the library through the use of checkpoints.
Biden remains silent. If his handling of Israel/Hamas is any guide, he's probably demanding jewish students give into all demands and stop trying to use the library.
They should add Asian Americans to Jews on their denial list in the interest of addressing education inequality.
Lol
She's out of her mind and there is absolutely nothing to negotiate.
"Automatous group of students" my ass. That a pathetic excuse. This is your riot. You all own it.
You just can't make up this level of stupidity.
Schools like Columbia need to cut out the cancer that was the main cause of this. Radical academics teaching there. Cut it out ….
That would result in the gutting of several universities to include the ivy league septic tanks.
I guess we learned a few things yesterday.
Exhibit A: Once buildings are taken over and custodians are taken hostage, it's time to call the police.
Then this is no longer a "protest" it's an act of terrorism.
Another thing we learned was how desperately we need the police.
The ones who saved the good students and 3 janitors last night were among the defunded and defamed.
Any rational person can see that.
Our friends on the left have suddenly lost their voices and have dipped into the Fluff..
Since some children attend Columbia with Federal backing, I'll be looking forward to the nauseating congressional investigation of these crimes.
NYPD riot police storm barricaded Columbia building to dislodge protesters
Not a single leftist response here so far. That's rather telling.
Telling of what? You think this moron is associated with the left? Stupid people say stupid shit all the time. You don’t get to assign them to a group that wants nothing to do with them. This dumbass likely couldn’t answer the most basic questions about Israeli / Palestinian conflict history. Just another entitled Ivy League silver spoon warrior living off of daddy’s credit card.
Do you think a grad student studying the marxist interpretation of poetry whose previous career consisted of working for "leftist and progressive causes" is a conservative?
There are a lot more MAGA morons in this country than there are college protesters. Millions more.
Why does she have to belong to one of only two groups?
It’s appropriate to call a self described leftist activist a leftist. How is that controversial?
Maybe, but they aren’t terrorizing Jewish students across the country in support of Hamas are they?
Not a single leftist response here so far. That's rather telling.
Then the implication is as obvious as it is false. There are no “leftists” here that meet your definition.
And yet it's only the dipshits on the left supporting terrorists and rioting. Wonder why.
Rookie mistake, the girl probably wasn’t prepared for the reporter’s wire brushing, got flustered and forgot about;
Well, it was technically an active crime scene so getting delivery would have been out of the question.
She Didn't learn much about planning in the classes she might have taken.
Just had a thought, if I were close enough , cater a good food truck that served up some Texas pulled pork and serve the cops free of charge right in front of this dizzy broad.
Outstanding idea, just outstanding!
Somebody needs to do this. I'm sure donations to support law enforcement won't be hard to come by.