Reddit discusses the Portland State University protests successfully getting PSU to pause their relationship with Boeing
Reddit discusses the Portland State University protests successfully getting PSU to pause their relationship with Boeing
For context, the PSU student council and elected body has had a resolution calling for PSU to divest from Boeing and cut all relationships since 2021, which the administration has ignored. It is the ‘democratic’ will of the student to cut ties with Boeing but you wouldn’t know that by all the kvetching and moaning in these threads and on the PSU subreddit
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Imagine being invested in Boeing given all the incidents in the last year
PSU isn’t invested in Boeing, but the reverse is true. Boeing spends shitloads of money on student scholarships and internships, they recruit heavily from PSU.
Chuds in the replies don’t seem to think that there’s any issue taking genocide money or an organization being a pipeline funneling kids into the war machine.
LOL at the comment saying “yeah Boeing might be aiding a genocide but they also give weapons to Ukraine! Ever think about that?” as if giving weapons to Nazis offsets your genocide
"Genocide money? But have you considered that a child from a poor family could be used as disingenuous argument fodder by a redditor?"
I'm so glad these students get to decide if a student from a poor family can use those funds for a scholarship or grants. Where the fuck do you think Boeing's funds go?
College is expensive enough without people pulling the rug from under the working class. Fuck the bourgeois activists and their trust funds.
Have they simply considered not being a genocidal mercenary for hire?
My fucking professor used that line of reasoning recently lmao. He's a utilitarian, so he thinks any good that comes from schools divesting in defense contractors has to be weighed by the bad, like less ability to fund Nazis in Ukraine and turn an entire generation of young men into pink mist or disabled/traumatized husks of their former selves.
Just the biggest of brains in American universities folks.
They had ABC anchors try to justify Colombia's investments "but if they didn't invest they wouldn't make money" as if there aren't other avenues or stocks to invest.
Let me guess, business or economics?
Philosophy
Utilitarian philosophy teacher? What a pleb
this is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors