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I teach at a college. The ceremony is so Mom can come get a picture. There's a reason so many grad students don't go to theirs.
A prestigious college that is internationally recognised or just like some backwater degree mill? The reason I'm asking is because you have such an utterly stupid take on the subject that I can't take you seriously.
A major state university with 45,000 students.
Choosing not to sit in a crowded room while people read names for 2 more hours so someone can hand you a fake placeholder diploma (the real one is mailed later) isn't some grand sacrifice.
I like that it happened because it's embarrassing for Pichai. Bit there is no price to be paid by the students as far as I can tell.
When Karl Rove spoke at my college when I was a student, I was part of the angry audience that lead to him ending his address 20 minutes early and leaving with his security detail forming a crowd around him. It was a cool moment, but it didn't cost me anything.
And I think that's the bigger takeaway. It doesn't have to cost you anything to stand up to these assholes.
Why? Why you gate keeping protesting? They didn't protest hard enough for you so you're not happy with it.
That is an insane worldview you've got there, it's utterly reductive, "if you don't do everything exactly the way I want then you might as well not do anything at all" great messaging that, I'm sure you'll recruit loads of followers.
You should go into politics, they love purity tests over there.
I dropped a word there. "It doesn't have to cost..."