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It was a peaceful protest. Students (mind you, TEENAGERS) were purposefully locked inside jantar mantar. They did not panic. The police launched tear gas, beat them with lathis, and squads pointed AK-47s at students with books and flowers in their hands. For people who have been living under a rock, or who live outside India, do you know what this protest was against?

Over an exam leak. Over a national exam leak which caused 2.2 million students to retake the test. At least 12 students commited suicide. And instead of taking responsibility?

They will come for you.

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From the Columbia University 1968 archive (Personal recollections of the 1968 student uprising at Columbia University by Frank da Cruz):

… a concerted effort was made to break into and rifle through President Kirk's many file cabinets and turn up evidence of covert links with the war machine and defense contractors, large corporations planning to divide up the spoils in Viet Nam, etc, all of which were to be found in abundance. These were photocopied and later published in the East Village underground newspaper, Rat. Some items were picked up by the mainstream press, resulting in some embarrassment among the rich and powerful, which quickly passed. Because we broke the file cabinets, we were charged with Malicious Mischief, a felony, in addition to the two standard felonies, Criminal Trespass and Resisting Arrest. Plus a misdemeanor, Disorderly Conduct.

https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/1968/rat.html

The May 3-16 issue of RAT, containing the material we found in Grayson Kirk's filing cabinets, prefiguring in a small way Daniel Ellsberg's Pentagon papers published in the NY Times three years later, demonstrating that we were right and everybody else wrong.

“The Immigration Nationality Act of 1952 gives the secretary of state the authority to revoke visas from foreigners deemed to be a threat,” wrote Axios, citing senior State Department officials in its reporting.

The 1952 law, also known as the McCarran-Walter Act, codified immigration restrictions of “subversives” and communists. The act’s quotas and ideological litmus test were widely understood at the time to target Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet agents.

First of all, if you like this terminology as an individual, go use it for yourself. I'm not gonna claim it's universally evil.

But second, "doll" as a term is rooted in black queer culture and has a specific historical meaning.

In this context it calls for a better evaluation of how the metaphor applies to all the other terms you suggest. What's the value of an action figure? Why is that men and women get human shaped toy metaphors, and nonbinary people get ones that are typically animals?