Originally Posted by JU_88 (Post 1766296)

You know what -you can actually defend others without having to actually become who you are defending.
Likewise you can critisize somthing that you yourself are apart of.

You dont need to be poor to sympathise with poor people,
You can still find faults with capitalism, even if you are a captialist.

The hypocracy lable is cheap and overused.

People who protest are exercising there freedom of speech and right to protest. Some are idiots who do just going long for the ride, but there is no such thing as a MASS protest without a message.
People protest to for a change of policy that is currently not on offer from their government, if enough people are behind it, then any fair democratic society should at the very least take them seriously enough to listen.
Not every protester will be united on opinion, just as every Christian, Liberal, Republican, whatever is not united in theirs.

The way some people seem so desperate to use their own freedom of speech -to discredit and insult and shut up the protesters, makes me wonder why they want to live in America - perhaps they would be much happier in China where those people they despise so much are forced to shut up. :shifty:
How's that for Hypocracy?

Anyone who is still struggling with what the protest is about, please watch this 4 minute cartoon that explains it in laymens terms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScS9R...&feature=share

Originally Posted by Rockstar (Post 1766423)

Sounds very much like the same thing the Tea Party was protesting. <runs for cover>

Originally Posted by August (Post 1766370)

They had a seminar at Brown yesterday to teach the student "activists" what they are protesting about.

http://newsblog.projo.com/2011/10/oc...spires-te.html

Keep in mind that it costs over $50K per year to attend Brown university. I'm sure those students can really relate to the problems of the working poor...

Originally Posted by JU_88 (Post 1766514)

The protesters are not just student and hippies, (and who the hell are we to look down on students and hippies anyway?) many are ordinary working and middle class Americans just like you.

Originally Posted by soopaman2 (Post 1766375)

I find it bad that someone from the UK knows more about how America works than most Americans. They barely even teach civics in our schools nowadays.

:yeah:

Originally Posted by August (Post 1766523)

You're describing Brown students as hard working and middle class folks just like me? Hardly.

If they were that much in tune with the situation as you claim then explain why they need to be told what they're protesting?

Originally Posted by JU_88 (Post 1766561)

No sorry I meant the protesters in general.

Originally Posted by gimpy117 (Post 1766526)

because they are too busy catering to standardized tests. Now for college you need to to the Sat, ACT, Meaps (in Michigan during elementary) and the MME. Sadly, schools are judged by these.

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1766568)

:yep:

You are correct gimpy. The reason they teach to test is simply the way to keep their teaching jobs. Tenure is becoming something of the past. The school, however, is judged by these but the individual teacher is much more closely judged as to performance.

Originally Posted by JU_88 (Post 1766589)

@ august, sorry pal, I misread your post at the top of the page, my bad.

Originally Posted by August (Post 1766579)

As a private school teacher I have some sympathy for my public school brethren. They have less and less control over their students, more and more restrictions on their ability to do their job. It's an increasingly difficult situation they're being forced to deal with.

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 1766426)

no need to run. I think you are correct.