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Benjamin | Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 6:40AM
Benjamin | Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 6:40AM The above is literally one of the top 5 internet videos i've ever seen. If you watch it, I swear to jeebus that by the end you'll wish it was 30 minutes longer.
These spoiled little fucking douchebag NYU students, whose parents spend 50k a year to send them to the school, "barricaded" themselves into the cafeteria to protest the school's capitalistic tendencies. Good question: Nope, the whole building did not explode in a fireball of irony.
Their demands? You guessed it, they want support for the Palestinians. Hey, who doesn't?
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Reader Comments (13)
This was hilarious for many reasons, but mainly:
1) "We have rights!"
Not inside a private space you don't, you hipster fucktards! Good luck in your legal battles with a University that has one of the best law schools in the country and more money than God.
2) "We need to have a consensus! We need to discuss this!"
Translation - "We're all to scared to think for ourselves!"
I would love to see these little shithead zealots expelled for this stupid stunt. It shames me as an NYU graduate, and perplexes me as a sensible person.
I think I may have done some embarrassing shit like this when I was in college. cringe
Again with this non-funny, non-ironic take on serious and important issues.
Please stop!
First of all, this has nothing to do with PS.
Secondly, most of the protesters were NOT NYU students.
In fact, Mr. Big Mouth seeking "consensus" is a student at a small, private, liberal arts college in PA (ie, his parents are spending 50K a year for him to be charged with trespassing in NYC).
I've been a part of some protests in my time. Most were much more intelligently planned than this one and none involved the occupation or destruction of property.
Since the names of each of these kids are all over the internet, it's like posting a picture of yourself drunk and puking on Facebook: a guarantee that you'll never get a decent job in the future.
@Burkelee Carroll uhm: do you not get that you are the one who is whining here? No of course you don't...cause you are retarded little internet troll. Lookey here: you see that sweet little x in the top right hand corner of your douche screen? Click on it...and then don't come back. Otherwise one of the many people who actually enjoys reading this blog is gonna hunt you down and punch you in your stupid face. [note to fips: can you just start deleting this tard's comments? thx].
They should have kicked in the door, wavin the four four and turned this into Kent State II, or more.
@hughblaze:
nobody can blame the NYU administration or its security detail of brutality. Imagine coming into your home, finding a group of vandals in your living room and allowing them ten minutes to reach "consensus" before calling the police or taking out your favorite baseball bat.
The only thing that would have made this better is if it ended with a taser and someone in a beenie screaming "dude don't tase me". This is what the privillage of access to higher eduction is used for?
Call me mean, but after watching this, all I can think is that if there is one campus where I wouldn't mourn be a VA Tech like massacre, it would be at the NYU Kimmel Center.
homies clearly were not prepared for this situation, which was inevitable. do we need more evidence that college is wasted on the young/emotional/tooconflictedaboutselfidentitytofigureoutwhattodo. regardless about whether we agree with their actions/agenda, they easily shoulda had it together to: as a group not hand over their ids, park their asses on the ground rather than milling around with their various digital devices playing pokemon, and be prepared to go limp if someone physically tried to move them. sadly, spoiled mary-kates that they were, they were content to rant and rave and have a little kid fit until daddy handed over the keys to the suv. remember kiddos, you can't get access to the master's suv unless you have the keys.
Bunch of punks....scumbags hippies. Free free palestine.....shut up already motherfuckers....why don't you free yourselves infidels.
i've never replied to an inane blog post, or really any blog post, but i do feel the need in this case to dispel some of these yuppie delusions.
grow the fuck up. you're iving in the formerly perfectly pleasant park slope, the yuppie-fication of which you are 100% responsible for, reminiscing about how much cooler and smarter you were in college. i can guarantee, beyond any doubt, you weren't. you did stupid shit, you signed stupid petitions, you made stupid arguments, and you believed in unfounded tenuous-at-best ideas. i'm not saying that was bad -- i'm saying that was college. this is what you do in college, and it isn't to be condemned. can we for thirty seconds step out from behind the sturdy defense of irony and apathy and say, yeah, these kids are a bunch of fucking idiots, but they're nineteen fucking years old, and you know what -- at least they care about something. maybe it's something stupid, but at least they're doing something. and anyone who would deny one of these kids a job in the future because they maybe made an ass of themselves rebelling against imperialism or capitalism or whatever the fuck their white overprivileged guilt has got them all upset about, is going to miss out on the opportunity to work with someone who is only going to get smarter and more effective, and who will be armed with something that you don't learn and that doesn't come with age: passion, energy, and ambition. being "conflicted about identity" or "young" or "emotional" is not something to be mocked or condemned -- it's where they're fucking at, and it's where they're supposed to be at, and it's okay. kids in college are conflicted about their identity, and they should be -- they don't fucking have an identity yet. and once again, i guarantee -- neither did you. your protests weren't any more organized or attractive -- or, probably, effective. but as someone who engaged in protests, who cared enough about something to put that kind of energy into it, can't you for a second look at these kids and think, well at least they're trying? at least they're not holed up in their shitty dorm or their east village apartment their parents pay rent for, playing wii and smoking bad pot and making stupid ironic pointless jokes? (maybe not, since apparently that's the standard park slope yuppie MO.) i was already skeptical and critical of these kids and their theatrics, but what this blog post really made me disgusted by is the thought that these kids are going to end up just like you: snarky, overblown, dissatisfied curmudgeons who can't get off on anything other than being better than a fucking nineteen year old.
also: the VA Tech comment doesn't make you "mean", it makes you a fucking moron.
and in case any of you actually care, as is often the case with protests and movements that actually get this far, it wasn't just about palestine, or about any one issue. what they were really fighting for was institutional transparency -- and the right, as they see it (and as most college students today and during sudan divestment campaigns and during apartheid south africa divestment campaigns and during the vietnam protests saw it) to be active, respected members of a community they are a huge part of. whether or not they or their parents are the ones paying their tuition, they have earned their right to have a voice in the actions and decisions of the institution they comprise. so all of you "park slope for obama" canvas-tote-bag toters with your whining for government transparency may want to consider for a moment that while your little youtube video may not have conveyed that message clearly enough, there was more to this story than the soundbyte you chose to entertain yourself with during your 8th idiotic conference call of the day.
oh, and furthermore -- the daily news? really? you might have gotten a little bit more out of an actual newspaper, if you wanted to go to the effort of reading something with a little depth. but who am i kidding? you've got about as much capacity for depth as the half-caff skim latte you get every morning from your not-starbucks overpriced corner coffeeshop.
Danielle, you sound like a self-centered little douche. I understand that you're a college kid, so I'll cut you some slack for not knowing any better. But not much:
a) Go put some shoes on
b) Stop preaching to real people
c) You're wrong about something very key: MOST people never do anything QUITE as stupid as the spoiled little NYU fucks do in this video.
Bookmark this thread and come back in 10 years.