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Subject: Re: [OT] Professor inflitrates pro-Palestinian encampment; union
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Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 23:22:12 -0400
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On Mon, 06 May 2024 02:02:26 +0000
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

> On May 5, 2024 at 5:44:12 PM PDT, "Rhino"
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 05 May 2024 22:48:24 +0000
> > BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> >   
> >>  On May 5, 2024 at 2:29:58 PM PDT, "Rhino"
> >>  <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> >>    
> >>  > Students at the University of Toronto have a pro-Palestinian
> >>  > encampment like some of the American colleges and universities.
> >>  > Recently, a professor "infiltrated" the encampment - he
> >>  > basically just visited and talked to protestors - and described
> >>  > the experience in an article for the National Post:
> >>  > 
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>> https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/university-of-toronto-anti-israel-protest-encampment
> >>  > 
> >>  > The professor found that many of the protesters were not
> >>  > students, staff or faculty of the university at all, yet they
> >>  > were limited were actual fee-paying students could go. 
> >>  > 
> >>  > A former Antifa member who is now a "communications officer" in
> >>  > a major union has called for "street-level" consequences for
> >>  > people like the professor.     
> >>  
> >>  This union official-- Victoria Wojciechowska-- isn't even a
> >> Canadidian citizen. She's a Polish national.
> >>    
> > How did you determine that? That isn't in the article. While the
> > name is almost certainly Polish she could be third or fourth
> > generation Canadian for all I know.  
> 
> I looked her up. Her Facebook says she's Polish and lives in Warsaw a
> lot of the time.
> 
Or at least someone with the same name does....

Any time I look someone up online, even someone with a very unique
-seeming name, I find several exact duplicates.

>>  In any rational society, a foreign national making public threats
> >> of violence in the media against the citizenry would be instantly
> >>  deported.
> >>    
> > I agree that the threat should definitely be subject to legal
> > consequences for the person uttering them. I wouldn't be adverse to
> > a deportation either if she really is a Polish citizen. 
> > 
> > I was rather appalled at the open threat of violence against the
> > professor made in a public place - the newspaper - and certainly
> > hope the police don't let that go by. I'd also like to see the
> > professor get a protection order (Canadian equivalent of a
> > restraining order) against the threatener, although I suppose the
> > union has additional goons to break legs if it wants.  
> 
> 
> 



-- 
Rhino