• ASDraptor
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    2 months ago

    Do you really think the UC is the only university in the world having protests? Because you know… I’ve seen protests in so many other countries but none of them had a university buying a fucking grenade launcher to “pacify” them.

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      2 months ago

      The tear gas is definitely excessive, but the right amount of “weapons” to buy is not 0.

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        2 months ago

        That’s exactly the amount of weapons universities in other countries buy. And apparently, they all work and deal with protests frequently.

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          Do they have “protests” where they go smash any business in the surrounding area that’s a franchise of a recognizable brand? When it started as a protest about a politician?

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              I just don’t think it’s unreasonable to use force to stop things from actively being destroyed.

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                2 months ago

                Yes, and the police force from the city, which by the way is not as militarized as the American one, deals with people without the university needing to buy weapons.

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                  Ah, so the problem you see is the university having its own police department.

                  I definitely do think it’s a bit weird that the university has its own police. That’s not uncommon for universities in the United States. I’ll be honest that I don’t fully know the history behind it.

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                    No. The problem is not just the university police, but how they deal with protests. First of all, a university having a police force is already crazy, but dealing with protesters with grenade launchers? Maybe America’s problem is not the protests but how they think they should deal with them, just saying.

                    Because if you tell me that the police need to arm themselves that much because citizens can be armed too and they need to counter those weapons then the problem is still weapons.