Campus Protests, The Imperial Boomerang, and a Lesson in State Violence: Episode 21
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Pro-Palestine student protests have flared up across the country in conjunction with campus and police crackdowns, with many students learning that their universities are essentially collegiate hedge funds. They demand divestment from Israel. The level of state violence they have endured at the hands of police has not been seen since the Vietnam Backlash. In this Episode we discuss the Imperial Boomerang, or the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens. Our struggles are connected, keep pushing.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, welcome to Colonial Outcast episode something, whatever it is. I'll put it in the description later. |
| 0:06.6 | And today we will be discussing cops, police, law enforcement, the thin blue line, and about how we love them and are true to blue. |
| 0:16.2 | We stand with blue and how we back the boys in blue. Just kidding. We fucking don't. So that F-bomb in the beginning |
| 0:23.0 | will demonetize this episode on YouTube, which is fine because we're talking about campus protests, |
| 0:28.4 | genocide, the Rafa assault, and ACAB, so it's going to get demonetized anyways. You see, |
| 0:34.6 | here at Collodial Alcast, we seek to challenge Western hegemony and the imperialist status quo, which is bad for everybody. |
| 0:41.0 | And this is most clearly demonstrated by examining cops because modern law enforcement is molded and influenced by forms of colonial coercion, |
| 0:50.2 | i.e. the violence and control used to suppress indigenous populations in European colonies that is |
| 0:57.1 | imported back to Europe to be used on European and now American citizens. What does that mean and how |
| 1:04.9 | does that work? We're going to get into it. But first today, I am joined by co-host Mark Wayne and |
| 1:10.5 | series regular Travis, who was with me at the University of Texas pro-Palestine protest encampment yesterday, which got spicy. What's up, fellas? |
| 1:21.0 | Hey, hey, Greg. Thanks for having us. Is that the proper etiquette? I don't. I did it. I have poor radio etiquette, so I have no idea. |
| 1:30.2 | So, um. |
| 1:31.6 | Long time listener, first on caller. |
| 1:33.4 | Oh, sorry. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.6 | Um, yeah. |
| 1:37.2 | So we all saw the UT protesters. |
| 1:40.2 | There was also a joint protest going on at, uh, USC. |
| 1:44.9 | Uh, UCLA was the, uh, going on at USC. UCLA was the one protest. |
| 1:48.1 | We're recording this on April 30th to be released on April 31st. |
| 1:52.4 | Or is it May 1st tomorrow? |
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