Maybe I'm expecting too much from university students. When you said, "He's only 20", I thought you were going to say 16. Have we extended youthful folly to age 25? 30? Do they even understand that there will be (should be) consequences for their actions? Do they understand that non-protestors who are being inconvenienced or intimidated have rights too?
Maybe I'm expecting too much from university students. When you said, "He's only 20", I thought you were going to say 16. Have we extended youthful folly to age 25? 30? Do they even understand that there will be (should be) consequences for their actions? Do they understand that non-protestors who are being inconvenienced or intimidated have rights too?
I'm certainly not saying there should be no consequences. But I do think those consequences should be meted out at the university level, not on the national stage. Should he be suspended for making such an appeal to violence? Probably. Should he be the subject of a nightly broadcast on all of Fox News' talking heads programs? No.
And that's basically where I'm at with all of this stuff. Protest and conflict happen *constantly* on university campuses. And those disputes should be settled on them, too.
Sounds right, sounds right. Appreciate your engaging with crotchety people like me. I was born cynical. Even as a teenager I didnтАЩt like teenagers. Never impressed with anti-Vietnam protests. Those military kids, no older than the protesters, had to listen to these same righteous kids call them baby-killers as they returned from service. IтАЩm equally unimpressed by this 21st century edition of privileged and self-involved righteousness. Yes I know a small number may actually know more than what the heart-wrenching photographs of suffering on social media show. But most of them are excited by the edginess of being in a protest, the girls are tripping on the тАЬcommunity sharing and bondingтАЭ, and theyтАЩre all feeling mighty self-important.
Maybe I'm expecting too much from university students. When you said, "He's only 20", I thought you were going to say 16. Have we extended youthful folly to age 25? 30? Do they even understand that there will be (should be) consequences for their actions? Do they understand that non-protestors who are being inconvenienced or intimidated have rights too?
I'm certainly not saying there should be no consequences. But I do think those consequences should be meted out at the university level, not on the national stage. Should he be suspended for making such an appeal to violence? Probably. Should he be the subject of a nightly broadcast on all of Fox News' talking heads programs? No.
And that's basically where I'm at with all of this stuff. Protest and conflict happen *constantly* on university campuses. And those disputes should be settled on them, too.
Sounds right, sounds right. Appreciate your engaging with crotchety people like me. I was born cynical. Even as a teenager I didnтАЩt like teenagers. Never impressed with anti-Vietnam protests. Those military kids, no older than the protesters, had to listen to these same righteous kids call them baby-killers as they returned from service. IтАЩm equally unimpressed by this 21st century edition of privileged and self-involved righteousness. Yes I know a small number may actually know more than what the heart-wrenching photographs of suffering on social media show. But most of them are excited by the edginess of being in a protest, the girls are tripping on the тАЬcommunity sharing and bondingтАЭ, and theyтАЩre all feeling mighty self-important.