Totally devoid of critical thinking

Went to UCLA this afternoon to talk to people peacefully. Few interesting takeaways:

1) Most of them openly say they support Hamas, a designated terrorist organization;

2) They say 10/7 atrocities, rapes, murders, didn’t happen. The official line is “even the NYT debunked it!”;… pic.twitter.com/HWjlTwBUNy

— David Marcus (@davidmarcus) April 28, 2024

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) Most of them openly say they support Hamas, a designated terrorist organization;

2) They say 10/7 atrocities, rapes, murders, didn’t happen. The official line is “even the NYT debunked it!”;

3) 10/7 was justified. It was resistance;

4) 100% of the people we spoke to had the exact same narrative and MO, trying to recenter the conversation to 1948, without knowing any of the details when challenged;

5) They have their own security and control access to their encampment;

6) We remained very calm, but they got really aggressive and angry;

7) When you approach people who clearly are junior to others, “handlers” show up very quickly to takeover;

8) Since many of them are truly ignorant about historical and present facts, when they know they’re going to embarrass themselves, they all say “read our 5 demands to divest, now I’m going to stop talking to you.”

More organized and orchestrated than I expected. Very sad to see so many young people in a higher education setting being manipulated and brainwashed and totally devoid of critical thinking.