Columbia University Is Just Rotten.

If an institution could succumb so quickly to an authoritarian power that theoretically threatens its existence, don’t you think that it’s most likely been part of that authoritarian movement for a while? Did it have to succumb to anything if it was the main actor in the demolition of the very thing that is its raison d’être which is freedom of thought and the freedom to question what is and isn’t?

Columbia wasn’t a place for learning and a beacon of freedom. If that were the case, it would offer education for free. If Columbia was what everyone is disappointed it isn’t “anymore,” then maybe it wouldn’t have supported such violent crackdowns on protests against an unfolding genocide. If Columbia was built on factual analysis of things, it would’ve at least attempted to preserve the optics of still caring about it.

But as things stand, if an institution is a for-profit enterprise, all of its talk about values and whatever bullshit it concocts is just marketing and should never be taken at face value.