On March 25, Rümeysa Öztürk was detained without being charged of a crime and without due process by the Department of Homeland Security and disappeared to a detention facility in Vermont. For what reason was she thrown in the slammer? Apparently, in this new Golden Age of America, it’s none of our business what our owners do with us, but it seems to have had something to do with an op-ed she co-authored in the The Tufts Daily titled, “Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions.” My first thought was perhaps she incited the Proud Boys to assault our nation’s Capitol or something almost as terrible, but I couldn’t find anything of that nature in her article. Perhaps it has to do with too many double dots in her name?
This poses a challenge for us good, obedient, servile nitwits of the new America.
On the one hand, we need to know what not to do if we’re to enjoy less risk of getting kidnapped off the street. On the other hand, we mustn’t see what she wrote, as it could contaminate us with her woke thoughts.
I guess this is what George Orwell was talking about when he coined the term “doublethink.” We need to have two compartments in our heads, one compartment for knowing what thoughts we must not think, and another compartment that has only glowing thoughts — such as the upcoming birthday party / military parade for our Dear Donald.
Charles Ashurst, Logan
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