Scared for the future, thousands of youths go on strike in Australia

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[Professor Emeritus]

Absolutely brainless Australian politicians are reacting to the youth movement in the worst way imaginable.

Alienate the voting bloc of the future while looking like a$$holes by attacking kids.

Resources Minister Matt Canavan, who told 2GB radio on Friday: "The best thing you'll learn about going to a protest is how to join the dole queue.

"Because that's what your future life will look like: up in a line asking for a handout, not actually taking charge for your life and getting a real job."

"You don't learn much in a protest line. I don't want our children preparing for some kind of dole queue of the future,"

Senator James McGrath identified a spelling error in a placard held by one student at the protest, circling it in a photograph he posted on his Facebook page. The sign, which targeted Prime Minister Scott Morrison directly, misspelt "jealous" as "jelous".

"Given some of the creative spelling on display at yesterday’s [Queensland Teachers Union]-endorsed muck-up day, perhaps these children’s teachers and parents might like to refocus their attention on the three Rs, of which rioting is not one of them," Senator McGrath said.

MP Craig Kelly - who sits on the House of Representatives' environment and energy committee - told Fairfax Media that if the children were serious about combating climate change they should forgo ice-creams and hamburgers.

"Given that the agricultural sector and the dairy sector is such a big contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, they should say they're going to go without ice-creams for 12 months," he said.

"If they're really serious they should make a commitment - no ice-cream, no hamburgers and no trips to the Gold Coast for schoolies, because of all the emissions from the airplanes."

On Monday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged students to remain in class rather than demonstrating over causes that "can be deal with outside of school".

"What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.

"We have three main goals. First is to stop Adani. The second one is no new sources of fossil fuels, and the third is to convert Australia to full renewable energy by 2030," the protests' organiser, high school student Jean Hinchliffe, told 9News.

"It should be dealt with outside of school, but it's not being dealt with outside of school and that's why we're here."

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Thousands of Australian students who went on strike today have reached a compromise agreement that would see them go to school 8 days in the first half of next year, the same number of sitting days in Parliament in 2019.

“We figured that if our leaders are going to turn up for a week and a bit next year, then we should probably match that,” a student spokesperson said.

Many students took the full day off today, reducing their sitting days in 2018 to just 192.

 

[Mook]

Absolutely brainless Australian politicians are reacting to the youth movement in the worst way imaginable.














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That is exactly how you react to people standing around. Had they actually impeded some business or inconvenienced someones life he would have had to talk about what they wanted.

Fall for the bullshyt ghandi propaganda brehs.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

That is exactly how you react to people standing around. Had they actually impeded some business or inconvenienced someones life he would have had to talk about what they wanted.

Fall for the bullshyt ghandi propaganda brehs.

First off, a bunch of kids with no prior organization managed to get massive media coverage and forced multiple politicians to expose themselves in such a way that hurt the politicians' credibility and increased public support for their cause. This is a bunch of kids doing something on a few days planning you're holding them to the standards of a major movement?

If they failed, the politicians wouldn't have to say anything. The fact that the politicians not only were reacting across the board but taking L's while doing so was one of the best-case scenarios for the kind of impact a bunch of kids could have with such minimal investment.


Second, what the hell is "bullshyt gandhi propaganda"? Do you have the slightest clue what Gandhi's movements looked like? He enacted massive change BECAUSE his movements were so well organized and multi-faceted and had massive economic impact, how the hell do you go from "people standing around" to Gandhi?

Gandhi only held a major protest movement once every ten years in part because he felt that it took that many years of preparation and grassroots economic-sufficiency and community solidarity-building to even get the people prepared for the kind of sustained, powerful, government-freezing movement necessary to get the British to actually give up a massive profitable asset like India.