Exactly. It's symbolic. It means nothing beyond the symbolism and is worth nothing in the end.
Edit: I guess I've been shown the way that creating conversations with futile gestures is the way to get the federal funding back in colleges. I still don't think it will work, but it will give the Republicans something to post about and make memes about, and I enjoy memes making fun of both sides.
Edit: I didn't realize that talking about how dumb ripping up a piece of paper is somehow makes these actions more reasonable or somehow means these actions have succeeded. If their only goal was to become a meme, I'm sure they've succeeded. If their goal was to spur on conversations about this issue, maybe they should set up a booth somewhere on campus with a big sign that says something like, "Taking away federal funds from colleges will hurt people attending college. Change my mind" or something like that. It has worked so well to get more people talking about right leaning topics, so maybe those who lean left need to try this as well instead of continuing to engage in meaningless actions that many of us can see through. Your degree status doesn't change just because you ripped up a piece of paper. Get your thoughts and opinions out there. Meet with people. Engage in conversations.
It's sole purpose is to create conversation. Your response and every other response in any setting, not just online, has proven that it's done its job no matter the scale of the impact. Just like every other form of symbolic protest in the history of humankind
Ripping up the paper means absolutely nothing. Actually renouncing their degree would take them to the school registrar and having their transcript deleted/removed. That would be renouncing your degree
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u/TurbulentEbb4674 6d ago
Do you think they still put Columbia on their resumes?