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Our local universities are in turmoil creating no go areas where the students now no go but do go about striking. That, in their definition, means the traditional disruption of public, rampaging, wrecking, burning, and singing and dancing to show how unhappy they are. Front page news in ‘The Mercury’ features the University of Westville campus where some of this is going on.
Then, there is a particular section that Much Better Half drew to my attention quoting one of the spokesmen. How kind of them to bring their own fire-lighters. Of course, though, there was no intention to light fires with them. Just to let them flame away to themselves well away from anything combustible. Why do I find that difficult to swallow when, as usual, vehicles and buildings have been targeted?
These are supposed to be the intelligentsia, destined for leading positions in the country. Why are they behaving like completely brain-dead savages? Don’t they realise that by destroying schools and universities and any other public institution they are cutting off their noses to spite their silly faces? They should be forced to do the plastic surgery themselves, after a good old-fashioned spanking as befits completely unruly children.
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How dare you offer such common sense when students are aggrieved. Nothing helps make your point like setting someone else’s car on fire…
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It certainly gets a message across that you are not happy.
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I sure do agree with you, Col. It always amazes me that rioting and burning down “one’s house” is seen as an effective tool to make a point. I have yet to see results that make sense to me! What a shame.
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I find that in me it converts all likely sympathy for their cause into antipathy towards their actions.
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Hormones and herd mentality with a massive side order of stupid. They learned the lesson well though, that the only way to get the attention of a bureaucrat is to threaten/destroy the things the bureaucrat values, and both sides be damned to any ‘collateral damage’.
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What odd behaviour. What is the motive for it, I wonder?
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They do have some frustrations, and the method of getting them resolved is becoming accepted as the norm, utterly negative though it may be.
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That’s true. The first reaction for so many now is to lash out and destroy things – usually other people’s property.
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If it’s any consolation, we have similar idiots here too . . . and they don’t change as they age.
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One would think that some exposure to ‘higher education’ would bring a more civilised outlook. Not so.
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Over the centuries our species has become resistant to the benefits of higher education. It’s now used only to claim victimhood or entitlements.
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A cynical but unfortunately accurate assessment.
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I pressed ‘Like’ but don’t like this at all. Their behavior is totally cretinous and shows their absolute disrespect for property and other people’s rights. I’ll never understand what causes so-called educated folk to do such things. 😡☹️
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Nor do I understand the degree of tolerance increasingly extended. Some really meaningful clamping-down and holding to responsibility would educate better than any of their professors seem to be doing.
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To paraphrase Alfred Lord Tennyson, “ours is not to reason why, ours is but to grind our teeth in frustration.” 😬
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Not to mention frustrated fury.
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That’s why I didn’t press like,
I’d be inclined to close up the schools and universities if I was running that place, and let them stew in their ignorance which is all they deserve.
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I do agree with you. Then, hopefully, the ones who wanted to learn would sort them out.
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Wish it were that simple. 😳
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