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OT: World Politics

leafman101 said:


I see university campuses haven't changed in the last 15 years.
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35-40 years ago it was the same shit. At Concordia back then we had very militant Jewish and Palestinian student groups who were forever trying to disrupt things whenever one side or the other invited a guest speaker to come to campus. One side or the other were forever calling for boycotts and demonstrations. And these, of course, were on top of all the other far left student groups calling for boycotts and demonstrations over their own pet causes. They were ready to go to war over the purchasing of Colombian or Nicaraguan coffee in the cafeteria. I don't even remember what the hell their problem was about that (I didn't drink coffee back then so I didn't give a shit)

I remember my fraternity did a beer bash around the time of the Iran-Contra scandal and we decided to call it the "Iranamock Bash" and printed posters featuring an Aislin cartoon from the Montreal Gazette where Ronald Reagan is saying "Iran amok" while trying to explain himself. One day I was putting up posters and a Middle Eastern student saw the poster and started berating me. "What is this Iran bash? What is this Reagan?" I had to explain to him that it was just a party. I think I also asked him "Do you even want to meet girls, dude?"

Then there was the time I was working at the campus coffee bar and on the morning after the US launched an air strike against Libya I wrote on the big chalkboard behind the bar "Last Night's Score: Reagan 1, Khaddaffi 0" Again, humorless students who's mother tongue was neither English nor French were irate.

But back in those days, you didn't have to do mandatory sensitivity training, you just said "Fuck em if they can't take a joke."
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
35-40 years ago it was the same shit. At Concordia back then we had very militant Jewish and Palestinian student groups who were forever trying to disrupt things whenever one side or the other invited a guest speaker to come to campus. One side or the other were forever calling for boycotts and demonstrations. And these, of course, were on top of all the other far left student groups calling for boycotts and demonstrations over their own pet causes. They were ready to go to war over the purchasing of Colombian or Nicaraguan coffee in the cafeteria. I don't even remember what the hell their problem was about that (I didn't drink coffee back then so I didn't give a shit)

I remember my fraternity did a beer bash around the time of the Iran-Contra scandal and we decided to call it the "Iranamock Bash" and printed posters featuring an Aislin cartoon from the Montreal Gazette where Ronald Reagan is saying "Iran amok" while trying to explain himself. One day I was putting up posters and a Middle Eastern student saw the poster and started berating me. "What is this Iran bash? What is this Reagan?" I had to explain to him that it was just a party. I think I also asked him "Do you even want to meet girls, dude?"

Then there was the time I was working at the campus coffee bar and on the morning after the US launched an air strike against Libya I wrote on the big chalkboard behind the bar "Last Night's Score: Reagan 1, Khaddaffi 0" Again, humorless students who's mother tongue was neither English nor French were irate.

But back in those days, you didn't have to do mandatory sensitivity training, you just said "Fuck em if they can't take a joke."
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WeHave, makin friends since ‘83.
 
zeke said:
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"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose..."

I see a lot of angry, young, unemployed men who have nothing and have nothing to lose but their own lives which have been shit since the day they were born in Israeli captivity. You treat people like "human animals" as that Israeli commander described them on TV the other day, and you get what you get.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
This is a great idea. Let’s offer them Israel and renaming rights, and in exchange they agree not to brutally kill all the Jews. Does that sound like a good starting point? Do you think they’d accept?
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A good starting point would be to open talks or at least say that you wanted to open talks, something Bibi hasn't even pretended to do in a decade.
 
Montana said:
Blinkin mentioned negotiating with both Egypt & Israel about opening a humanitarian corridor, but haven’t heard anything else on it.
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I also read that they're trying to set-up safe zones in Gaza for civilians. Hopefully they can make some progress on this and/or a humanitarian corridor.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
WeHave, makin friends since ‘83.
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I had and still have no interest in making friends with people who bring their internecine bullshit from abroad into my country. They're supposed to be here in the first place to get away from that crap, not to stir it up on another continent. I had enough to deal with just from Quebec nationalists. I didn't have time for BS from the Middle East. If you're not into partying, sports, and getting laid, why even bother going to college to begin with?
 
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