At students protests in Ireland, the UK and the US, politicians are rightly being confronted with a wall of blankness and silence
At student protests in Ireland, the UK and the US, their critics are rightly being confronted with a wall of blankness and silenceBy the time Alan Shatter tried to engage student protesters at UCD in discussion, he had already described their counterparts at Trinity College as 'Hamas supporters', so it’s not surprising they didn’t take him up on it.
No one, it turns out, is willing to do so. Braverman and Christys leave the encampment entirely bereft of the bits and bobs they wanted explained to them. Cambridge is not the only venue where this particular genre of political theatre has been performed. Earlier this month Peter Baker, the White House correspondent for The New York Times, commented on the refusal of Columbia University protesters to speak to reporters. Such protests, he said, were “not actually about explaining your cause or trying to engage journalists who are there to listen”. Reading this, I was struck by the oddity of the claim.
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