There We Go
Someone who is actually thinking and not ranting. I like it.
A speaker at a high school, spoke about how the deaths of those thousands in New York had affected all of us severely. But yet, the deaths of thousands of children and other innocents in Afghanistan made no impact on us at all.
He was ridiculed for talking to high schoolers, because supposedly they don't know any better to form their own opinions. Speaking as a high schooler, I think that we might be a little impressionable. But if we don't figure out what we agree with now and what we don't agree with, we will be bent whatever way the leading majority wants. No question to whether it be right or wrong. I think it's good to show people both sides of an issue. And personally, a lot of high schoolers are not as stupid as the rest of the world thinks.
I agree with their school paper, which reads as follows:
``In a war situation there is always an attempt to suppress free speech,'' the school paper quoted Zinn. ``People who disagree with the war are looked at as unpatriotic, but in a democracy you must think for yourself about what is right and wrong and speak your mind.''
posted by Val at 11/21/2001 12:20:00 PM
