Columbia Expels Protesters

Originally Posted By u/Brian_Ghoshery At 2025-03-17 09:33:30 PM | Source

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How can you cancel a degree. It’s a proof of work and meeting requirements for graduation. You can’t “un-work” what they did.
Americans: please cancel our student debt

America: cancels your degree
RIP Columbia university
- Now we know that a degree from there after 2029 means they support genocide.
- It sounds like it's a shit hole anyway.
2026 enrolment numbers are gonna be lit!
Isn’t this just cancel culture by the Right? The claim is that they are accused of “wrong think”.

To be clear, I support the students’ right to protest, and a lot of cancel culture “victims” were rightly shunned for shitty takes or bad behaviors.
- this goes beyond anything that could be described as "cancel culture".
Is it possible to check how many convicted thieves, rapists and/or murderers still hold their degrees? You know, just for fun, to see where their priorities are...
- Well trump still has his.
- I'd say check the nazis too but theyre more of the education by "faith" types than education by actual education.
  
  In all seriousness though, has a US university ever stripped a nazi or holocaust denyer of their degree? Surely that ideology is just as, if not more harmful?
Fascists
Reminds me of the lists of prohibited words universities would send to students that are banned.
I think there are some cases, not these 22 students of course, but some cases that do warrant revoking a degree over moral implications. I'm rarely one to agree with blanket statements.
- Imo such cases would be when someone can prove that you didn’t earn your degree honestly, or when you have amassed a history of academic dishonesty after the fact. But personally I don’t think crimes (even murder) should result in you losing your degree.
Depends how they were protesting, if they were doing it peacefully this should be called out, but if they were causing property damage its understandable that they don't want to associate with the students. The students should get compensation though.
- Oh my stars, the decorum!
- Palestine under attack: s'all good man
  
  Not liking it: hold on now, let's take a closer look at why you dislike a genocide
- Why does it depend on how they were protesting? Why is violence relevant to a university degree in the first place?
  
  A degree should only be revoked in the case of cheating or other cases of gross scientific missconduct relating to said degree, no?
  
  For example, I think the unabomber was a terrible human being, but his crimes should be handled by the police. Not by the uneversites he worked for or got his degree from.
  
  This very much resembles some sort of social credit system.
  
  You're speaking to a right-winger, a master of hypocrisy and doublethink. Don't wear out your keyboard.
  
  You know what, you're right. The university should only withhold or cancel their academic studies if the student was first found guilty through trial of violent protesting (or otherwise illegal forms of protesting). Otherwise the university shouldn't have the authority to withhold it from them.
- Innocent until proven guilty. No one should be expelled from ANY School for protesting
  
  Only until they have been found guilty of the crimes you mentioned.
  
  This is exactly how I think it should be, unless they have substantial evidence to show they were violently protesting, there should be no repercussions for doing so.

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