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Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training

www.theguardian.com Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training

Students say mandatory training video is biased in favor of Israel and could inflame campus tensions over Gaza

At least 300 students have been prohibited from registering for classes at Northwestern University because they refused to watch a controversial antisemitism training video that they said was biased in favor of Israel, contained factual inaccuracies and could inflame campus tension over Gaza.

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Illinois, in case you were wondering.
- You'd think northwestern would be in the northwest, but no. Shows the calibre of education they provide.
  
  I know this is sarcastic, and I love it and I'm sorry the pedantic part of my brain must inform someone that when the school was founded, Illinois was the Northwest part of the United States.
  
  1803 Louisiana Purchase
  1809 Illinois Territory
  1819 49th parallel agreement
  1846 Oregon Treaty
  1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  1848 Oregon Territory
  1851 Northwestern university founding
  The full extent of the contiguous united states was established before the founding of northwestern university. Illinois territory wasn't organized until after the louisiana purchase.
  
  IIRC, it was sorta the NW for states admitted to the Union in 1851.
  I didn't name it, I just also wondered this and Googled it in like 2010.
  
  I guess the term “Midwest” was well established by then. Maybe anything further West was called “The Territories” or something?
  The naming of the university was very likely just following accepted naming conventions.
  If anything this shows the expansionist nature of the US. And an unwillingness to overhaul conventions (and there’s a lot to unpack there).
  
  The United States is the inheritor of all of Rome's evils. They are the same culture, the same empire.
  
  GTFO with your proselytizing. Nobody is interested.
  (yeah, I looked at your posting history)
  edit: I agree with your stance on Paul though. But admitting even that much, people like you just keep coming back. No. Don't even reply.
  edit2: yep, just as I thought
  
  I'd just like to take a moment to say that Hell doesn't exist, and that nothing bad will happen to nonbelievers in Jesus Christ in the afterlife. When people who don't believe in Jesus die, they go to whatever afterlife they do believe in, and if they don't believe in any afterlife, they simply cease to exist. There's no penalty for not following Jesus, it's completely optional. Roman priests invented Hell to appeal to people who were used to the idea of the Greek underworld afterlife, there's no basis for it in Jesus' teachings.
  
  Only the east coast matters.
- Yeah, it's still a corrupt quagmire here. It's better than it used to be, but that's like saying you've managed to remove two tons of shit from a 20 ton heap.

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