• Mustakrakish@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    Using words like “arrests” instead of the reality of it being extra-judicial kidnappings is you manufacturing consent for it, even if that is not your intention. Choose your works deliberatley, don’t just parrot headline.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
    372·
    5 days ago

    That’s not an arrest. That’s an abduction.

    Arm yourselves. You have a legal right to defend yourself from this.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
    95·
    6 days ago

    If you’re in the US and ever wondered what you’d have done in Nazi Germany as shit devolved, you’re finding out now.

    May she be released and live life fully.

    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
      141·
      5 days ago

      Pretty sure I wouldn’t have done a single thing about the situation there if I’d lived in Nazi Germany. At most I would have been personally opposed to it, maybe, but I certainly wouldn’t have taken any action and probably wouldn’t have even mentioned my thoughts to anyone if I was. Those are dangerous things to try and difficult conversations to have. Much easier to just keep on living my comfortable little life. I don’t live in the USA either so can’t do anything there but still probably wouldn’t if I did.

      Am I proud of that? No, but that’s how it is and would be for the majority of people I imagine.

      • 1SimpleTailor@startrek.websiteEnglish
        32·
        5 days ago

        I mean what are we supposed to do?

        I’m working class. I live paycheck to paycheck. I don’t have much charisma. I do my best to raise awareness among my peers, with little success. I voted. I support organizing, but unless the strike happens on a weekend I’ll be looking at homelessness.

        I’m thinking of just going blackout on media, because the constant barrage of the encroaching fascism has wreaked my mental health. I know where this is all heading, and I feel powerless to stop it. I’m a victim of the whims of history. Does that play into the fascist hands? Absolutely. What the fuck else am I supposed to do? Throw my life away in a suicidal attempt at positive change that has a incredibly small chance of success? I need to have a few less things to lose before I’m at that point.

        I see people all over social media asking, why aren’t you doing anything? Where’s our next Luigi? Acting like their provocative online discourse makes them into some revolutionary badass. Well… what the fuck are you doing?

    • PurpleSkull@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      It’s sad yet vindicating how Germans have been rehabilitated retrospectively these last 2 months if not earlier.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    31·
    5 days ago

    Even watching the video after reading the title my brain automatically thought she was getting lynched. It doesnt follow any of the rules a legal arrest has to follow. The ice is a lynch mob basically.

    • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.todayEnglish
      24·
      5 days ago

      Comments like this irritate the fuck out of me. WHAT ‘rules a legal arrest has to follow’ are you referring to?

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 days ago

        The part where you use reasonable force and tactics against reasonable people. This was a student, not fuckin Al Capone.

      • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        I was trying to water it down a bit and look at it from a somewhat centrist view but if i was gonna be completely honest then if i saw something similar to this on the street where i live id get a baseball bat and crack the skulls open of those fuckers. Tbf if you see something like this here in europe you basically have the right to defend that woman because shes getting assaulted. But this is a bit too radical for most people and my first comment gets the message across anyways.

  • curious_dolphin@slrpnk.netEnglish
    17·
    5 days ago

    For those wishing to learn more about this specific incident, here is some media coverage:

    And here’s the original Tufts Daily article that Ozturk co-authored in March 2024: Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily (Archive.org | Archive.ph)