Privilege to Pavement: Emory Professor Caroline Fohlin’s Arrest Marks a Watershed Moment in Campus Gaza Protests
Hey Biden - While the Comfortable May Overlook Systemic Racism, the Arrest of Respected White Professors Will Force a National Awakening
The United States of America is an inherently racist country. Who was surprised when police were beating Black people and POC during the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests? Probably no one.
But did you imagine police would violently slam this white professor to the ground last night?
This is Caroline Fohlin, PhD., a professor of economics at Emory University who is married to John Latting, the Dean of Admissions at Emory (oh boy!). She’s taught at the California Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University. Her works have been published widely in respected academic journals and books. She’s given lectures to her estimated colleagues all over the world.
Professor Fohlin saw someone at the Emory Gaza solidarity protest, presumably a student, being aggressively mishandled on the ground by police and said, “What are you doing!” This was enough to turn police attention on her.
She was then slammed violently to the ground (watch the video; it’s alarming), her glasses falling, and she was arrested.
Full CNN video:
She’s not the first to be fascistically abused by police in America, and she won’t be the last, so why does she, a privileged white woman, deserve a highlight here in Courage News?
Fohlin’s arrest is a watershed moment in our systemically racist, imperialist, fascistic, Zionist country that deserves highlighting
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When you come for the wealthy white professors with PhDs, you’re coming for those who might otherwise never have known there was a problem going on here. You’re coming for those who (***and I’m not speaking of Caroline specifically because I don’t know her (I’m sure she’s great!!! She stood up for that student after all!***), might have comfortably checked the box for Biden or Hillary and tsked tsked Trump and returned to sleep as long as they themselves were fine and MSNBC told them the only boogiemen were on the other team.
Hey Joe Biden, how comfortable are Caroline and her colleagues and all the white and comfortable who see what’s going on and who are simply ANTI-GENOCIDE (?!) going to be checking that box for you right now?
Answer us, Amtrak Joe.
Obviously, we have the existential threat of Donald Trump. Obviously, he has vowed to be worse on Israel. He has said he doesn’t think Biden is going far enough. We have Project 2025 to contend with, which will be a danger to ALL of us.
But we have a genocide on our hands right now, and Democrats are tanking their chances.
Another video angle:
And they will only have themselves to blame.
They won’t have Gen Z to blame.
They won’t have progressives to blame.
They won’t have a third party to blame.
They will have themselves to blame.
They are busy screaming “antisemitism!” as they slam professors to the ground.
They are busy screaming antisemitism! as they arrest the heads of the philosophy department (!?).
Meanwhile, there are tables for seders and Jewish students are proudly standing with the protests because they, too, want nothing to do with genocide.
And Democrats will only have themselves to blame if they lose in 2024.
The wealthy, white, and comfortable are watching, and they are waking up because now you’re not letting them go back to sleep, Joe Biden.
You’re showing them just a small taste of what this country has put Black people and POC through since the founding of this country.
And it’s not going to sit well.
And it’s going to cost you the election.
And so, Joe Biden, you have to stop this.
Genocide is bad.
It really is that simple.
Solidarity forever,
Jenn Dize
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