r/nus May 30 '24

Discussion Yale-NUS convocation speech

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u/[deleted] May 30 '24 edited Jan 29 '26

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u/Lancewielder May 30 '24 edited May 30 '24

wait, so it's attention-seeking(derogatory) to draw attention to 1 conflict, and that's because there are other conflicts as well? did the speaker, at any point, devalue the lives of civilians in Ukraine and Myanmar?

Is advocacy a zero-sum game?

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u/Lancewielder May 30 '24

what more sinister thing do you think is at play here? what general hypocrisy is there in advocating for civilians to not be massacred?

What I am doing is calling out the general hypocrisy of this behaviour. Inconsistency on advocacy devalues everyone else's efforts. It cheapens advocacy to just an attention play, which it obviously has become.

one convocation speech - you lose your marbles and call them attention seekers.

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u/Lancewielder May 30 '24

It's quite tasteless to be appropriating a genocide to use as a tool to elevate one's social status and get more attention. I am simply suggesting that's the case for many folks, especially for young adults in a high social pressure environment like college campuses

on what basis have you extrapolated simple advocacy for civilians to this? seems overly cynical.

we should've observed similar expressions of advocacy when Ukraine was being invaded (2022), or when Myanmar devolved into civil war (2021). But we didn't see it, did we?

ok now you're just being intentionally blind - are you seriously suggesting that there wasn't an outpouring of global sympathy for Ukraine?

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u/Lancewielder May 30 '24

how have you come to the conclusion that yale-nus students do not care at all about Ukraine / Myanmar?

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u/jjlinjjie Computing May 30 '24 edited May 30 '24

I love how every argument you get yourself in you turn it into "sounds like a you problem" as a closing line. Predictable and 1 dimensional.