Clueless: Bill Maher's message to anti-Israel students (fashions in social justice)

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https://youtu.be/D1Ab7ooJatk

VIDEO EXCERPT: I'm not saying there aren't sincere passions about Gaza, especially among people from the region. But social justice warriors -- for a lot of them, it seems like it's more about the warrior than about whatever the cause is.

[...] Do you just think you look cool in a kufiya (Palestinian scarf)? Or the new t-shirt of another historical figure you never researched, and so think he's a hero, but was actually a sadistic racist monster fighting for communism -- the worst form of government ever?

But these are small matters when activism merges with narcissism. Less about the cause and more about me -- look at me, watch me. And if you like the way I'm fighting injustice, remember to like and subscribe.

Maybe from now on, before anyone one commits an act of civil disobedience, they should ask themselves a few questions. Like, is the most important thing in my life is something I hadn't heard of 6 months ago? Do I even know what the ___ I'm talking about? Why do I care so much about this particular cause?

North Korea starves its people. China puts them in concentration camps. Myanmar brutalizes the Rohingya. Boko Haram kidnaps whole villages of women. Nothing [protest wise]? Ukraine? [...but Jewish state undertakings demand special, fixated attention from campus crusaders...]

You are clueless: Bill Maher's new message to anti-Israel students

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/D1Ab7ooJatk

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"The people who see themselves as the most liberal people in the world -- the social justice warriors -- are standing with some of the most illiberal people in the world."

https://youtu.be/DyoVtJBH3Uc

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/DyoVtJBH3Uc

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Activist’s admission of the real goal of college protests ... https://youtu.be/wdsRxntKNa8

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/wdsRxntKNa8

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Is it something that should have been expected? Could the following actually have a ring of truth to it? Have stupid kids outsmarted a generation?

A generation of students have gone through the school system without having to actually pass a grade to advance. Once college age, parents and to some degree taxpayers fork out $30G’s on the off chance their kids might actually become something, taking advantage of a lax educational system. Fortunately for those failing students a foreign war broke out that they were allowed to protest thus preventing them from completing their college year and as a result forfeit tuition fees.

Not the student’s fault, they used their rights to support a cause and what parent is going to berate their dumbass kid for that? Parents get snookered only to say goodbye to $30G and realize they’re saddled with a kid that may never grow up, never get a job, never have a house of their own, have a family etc. An empty nest is a pipe dream.

Meanwhile inside the university, away from the protests, there are still students wearing lab coats. They are studying, researching, experimenting. Learning to make the world a better place. They’ll need someone to dig the ditch, drive the bus or serve Big Macs.