There were threats to withdraw funding for not cracking down on Palestinian supporters. The universities did the crackdowns on their students. Then their funding got cut anyway.
Liberals are fucking cowards who think they can reason with reactionaries as if reactionaries won’t murder them once they know they can get away with it.
There are definitely enough examples of it not being an effective strategy that you’d think they’d stop pre-emptively surrendering, but who knows, maybe there’s enough reactionary private donors that they they still think there’s a way to placate to victory.
There were threats to withdraw funding for not cracking down on Palestinian supporters. The universities did the crackdowns on their students. Then their funding got cut anyway.
Liberals are fucking cowards who think they can reason with reactionaries as if reactionaries won’t murder them once they know they can get away with it.
There are definitely enough examples of it not being an effective strategy that you’d think they’d stop pre-emptively surrendering, but who knows, maybe there’s enough reactionary private donors that they they still think there’s a way to placate to victory.