As Twitchy has told you, some graduate students teaching at Yale started a “hunger strike” in an attempt to improve their union benefits. The strike is symbolic in nature, so participants have been encouraged to leave to eat if they’re getting too hungry. Campus Republicans are reportedly active in the area:
Yale College Republicans barbecuing by union fast site pic.twitter.com/qf687cckxB
— gabrielwinant (@gabrielwinant) April 28, 2017
Fusion and Vice writers (and others) are among the appalled:
what an unnecessarily cruel thing to do https://t.co/nGLM406LGI
— Emma Roller (@emmaroller) April 29, 2017
@emmaroller this is so gross I wanna die why are people so fucking cruel
— eve peyser (@evepeyser) April 29, 2017
All that might be overstating it a bit:
If by "unnecessarily cruel" you mean "brilliant and harmless trolling." https://t.co/oX5ZGY2cV9
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) April 29, 2017
And a delicious trolling it turned out to be.
Smells like freedom https://t.co/BwdSMECrVI
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 29, 2017
I'm currently fasting if anyone wants to bbq in front of my house also it's raining really hard so bring a poncho thank you very much https://t.co/M9wDjVOy9c
— lauren (@LilMissRightie) April 29, 2017
this would be a better troll if the hunger strike were real, but I still lol'ed. https://t.co/QCVp5NexjW
— CT Hockeyviolence (@CThockyviolence) April 29, 2017
Troll Level: Expert https://t.co/4OPKF62lUJ
— Andrew D Brooks (@andrewdbrooks) April 29, 2017
Troll level- #MAGABBQ https://t.co/5JuN1hCidx
— Jeff, Sam's nephew. (@JeffreyMDavids1) April 29, 2017
Maybe the Yale CR are just providing support for the symbolic hunger strike, for when the strikers get hungry. https://t.co/rtN5SZU7xR
— Mocrame (@molratty) April 29, 2017
In closing, to paraphrase a former president, it depends on what your definition of “cruel” is:
@evepeyser @emmaroller Curious, what are your positions on crushing babies skulls with forceps & sucking them out of the womb with a vacuum? ?
— Jared (@jaredstill) April 29, 2017
