Summary
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tufts University, was detained in Somerville, MA, by masked agents claiming to be police, without charges or transparency.
The Trump administration alleges she supported Hamas, citing unverified intelligence, after her student visa was revoked.
Der Spiegel linked her detention to pro-Palestinian advocacy, including an opinion piece urging divestment from Israel.
The incident sparked outrage, highlighting long-standing surveillance and detainment of Muslim Americans under national security pretenses.
Civil liberties advocates warn of increasing government overreach targeting minority communities.
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This is what you voted for protest-non-voters. Congratulations!
I’m wondering if these comments are starting to hurt at this point. Yeah I’m pissed at non voters too, in protest or otherwise. Is the continued ostracizing beneficial in any way though? Shouldn’t we be trying to talk with them on a way to move forward? If we continue to divide up the left into too many bite sized chunks we’ll never be able to properly organize at the scale needed in the US
the vote blue, no matter who crowd is just as reactionary as maga is and just like maga they have no interest in coalition building, only in revenge.
You mean like the protest voters and non voters were before the election when everyone with a brain tried to warn them that this was going to happen?
Becasue I don’t recall a whole lot of coalition building there. Just reactionary outrage.
the people who didn’t vote were all democrats; aka the non-coalition building type of voters so expecting them to do anything other than not voting was unrealistic.
ROFL! Yeah, because as we all remember- social media was chock full of registered democrats yelling at everyone to not vote for gEnOciDE jOe.
Man. You people will grasp at any straw you can find to avoid the responsibility of taking part in what caused this problem.
Go check the vote counts; the leftists justifiably calling Biden “genocide Joe” remained the same as it always has, excluding Obama, (as did the Republicans’ vote counts also did). the Democrat vote counts took a sizeable dip in this election.
Democrats aren’t even coalition building w their fellow Democrats anymore and blue-maga takes like these explain why and it’s going to keep getting worse until you stop drinking the Kool aid.
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This is telling people to vote. (for Dems.) Because this is what happens when you vote otherwise.
Yeah, you’re not helping by saying shit like this.
And this is coming from someone who is hated by many on this site for calling out the protest voters/non-voters.
We need to vote against fascism when it’s on the ballot, and this last election it was and in this case, the Democrats were the only choice. But let’s not pretend that they’re a good party.
Me: “vote”.
You: “you’re not helping”
Unbelievable.
No you said that “this is what happens when you don’t vote Dem.” These people have defined their entire personalities around hating the Democratic party. That’s as deep as it goes for most of them. Telling them that just makes it worse.
Maybe just take the criticism and move on? Otherwise it might start to seem like you’re intentionally trying to make the left look bad.
Ditto.
Can you point to the criticism you made so I can take it?
The protest voters did not meaningfully impact the election
You’re right we should have voted for Hindenburg, that’d prevent this. You can’t vote your way out of fascism friend, you must fight through strikes, protests, and armed revolt or flee.