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The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the contents.
A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on the casualties in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the cuts at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic” while the USAID section might be perceived as “anti governmental.”
Liu, who was already in New York when she got the call, offered to make edits to those slides but then three hours later, after some deliberations, she said the university apologized and said they had to cancel.
It’s appalling to see how quickly American higher ed bent over for the fascists. Why would anybody study there? Come to Canada or the EU instead.
So much for the first amendment.
$$$$, they’d rather sell out than stand up, cowards the whole lot of them.
I mean, $$$$ is literally the whole foundation of what America is about. The whole world revolves around money, sure, but in America it is not just the economy, also the culture, the religion, the media, the public parks, op’s mom, everything!
I’m hoping relations can cling on long enough for me to get to Sweden to study! If all goes well I’ll never have to come back to the US
Definitely come! Let me know if you have any questions about the system. I’m a citizen, and I only did my undergrad so far, but I’m happy to help fellow American immigrants make their way here.
Everything to do with finding housing has so far been the most difficult to figure out for me x.x Part of it I don’t know where I would be moving to yet, it’ll all depend where I may be accepted to which I should know within a couple weeks
Yeah housing can be tricky, especially in Stockholm. There is the Stockholm bostadsförmedlingen, which is good to join if you’re a resident, but queue times are completely unrealistic. 10+ years for the nicer neighborhoods. There are a number of student apartments on there though that might be easier to apply for.
I highly recommend the apartments in Bergshamra and Lappkärrsberget, I have a lot of friends who live there. I think those apartments are owned by the student union. I’ve also seen student apartments on campus at KTH, but I think those are a special arrangement with the university maybe, not sure how you can get those.
But yeah, the unfortunate reality in Stockholm is that the easiest way to get an apartment is to put up a down payment to buy a condo in a housing coop (“Bostadsrätt”). You can search for those on the government-owned real-estate site booli.se, but it usually takes 2 months for it to clear even after you buy. A typical down payment in Stockholm is 15% of the apartment/house value, ie $30-60k for a typical $200k-400k apartment.
In a pinch, you can find a room to rent second-hand (“andrahandshyra”) online, but it can be a hassle and expensive to have a landlord, and it’s sometimes a bit grey-market in the Swedish system when it comes to taxes, rent-control, and BRF rules. Plenty of sites for finding those, one is blocket, and you can find many more by googling “hyra lägenhet”.
Lycka till!
could be perceived as antisemitic
Ironic that the unhinged right is gleefully all about being actually antisemitic, and falsely labels any criticisms of Israel’s policies as “antisemitic”.
And yet…you still see “centrists” completely deluded by this…
