cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31268263
Tom Perkins Fri 6 Jun 2025 06.00 EDT
"The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned.
The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian."
wasn’t this one of the universities that announced a pact w other universities to guard against fascism?
They probably use the MAGA definition of fascism: i.e. socialism, communism, food stamps, unions, people giving food that they themselves bought to the homeless, the idea that exterminating an ethnic group is bad, things like that.
there’s something about a university not using the textbook definition of fascism that makes me giggle.