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At the outdoor Turning Point UW event where Nick Freitas (not Fuentes 🙂 ) was speaking yesterday, protesters from UW Students for a Democratic Society showed up (pretty far left but not pro-Hamas extremists like SUPER UW) and one of them was arrested apparently by UWPD for drumming too loud: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXujWxij0UC/?igsh=cWdsMXFpdDNtdG9v Today SDS had a rally on the same spot on the HUB lawn without about 20 people, and they managed to grab the attention of a lot of the students and tour groups walking past. The speakers (including the arrested drummer) talked about the ugly things TPUSA had said and why they were protesting, and saying UW never should have allowed Nick Freitas to speak. (I disagreed with them on that point; it was a student group that invited Freitas to speak and under the First Amendment UW could not have stopped them.) They also called out UW President Robert Jones for attending a discussion event hosted by Ari Hoffman a few weeks ago. UW SDS had asked people to bring drums but only 4 people did and my 47-year-old ears were grateful for that. After they dispersed, the event ended with a drum circle which was really more of a drum L-shape. submitted by /u/bennetthaselton |
