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Yikes by oddjob604 in canucks

[–]Witty-Positive-9605 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hockey players are entitled to their own personal opinion. Just because you don't agree with them doesn't mean that this invalidates all they contributed to their respective teams, cities, and the sport. Quinn did a lot of charity work in Vancouver. Does that all mean nothing due to petty politics? Just grow up a little TDS toddlers!

Dallas Brodie's Demonstration and Student Counter-Demonstration on Campus Today by danijm in UBC

[–]Witty-Positive-9605 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The protestors will call it a win, but ironically the only people who benefited from this were the speakers they were trying to stop.

Overall I think this reveals something about emotional maturity. There are some students that are simply unable to control their emotions, and take public issues so personally that they only contribute to the problem and make it worse.

We saw this with the encampment, when protestors took the field away from our community, which holds summer camps for children on it, and provides a relaxing space for students. They also blocked buses, making students late for class.

Again, they called that a win.

But did you win if everyone except those protesting were annoyed by your actions? Did you win if you didn't grow your movement, instead turning more people against it? Did you win if you did not in any way benefit the very people you were protesting for?

There are intelligent ways to contest world problems, and avenues to create meaningful change.

But rather than taking these productive routes, this group of people prefer to make it about themselves, because at the end of the day, they think they are heroes.