the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person
Here is a clip of the student's speech.
May 15, 2025 14:39groveling collaborative fucks at nyu behaving exactly as expected
that kid has more backbone in one of his vertebrae than the entire slithering, cringing serpentine chain of administration from every single nyc university combined
if i were a kid about to pick a university right now i might just save my fucking money instead of going into lifelong debt for a bunch of sniveling shits who couldn't even be trusted to have my back and might in fact be the ones calling the jackboots to drag me away. doesn't seem worth it, man
Absolute hero.
Oof! 💫🫶incredible, so effing courageous! 🥰
All my love and respect to this person. Courage that persists through obvious terror is so much more powerful than simple fearlessness.
NYU is likely more upset by the roaring applause than the speech itself, those fuckers.
