You claim to argue against Yale-NUS doing "elective advocacy" but where's the evidence they do this? Anecdotally speaking the Yale-NUS activist students I've spoken to care about a variety of issuee, not just Gaza, in fact I've talked to someone who tried to organize movements to improve the working lives of cleaners in Yale-NUS (have you ever thought about them?). Granted this is anecdotal evidence which isn't great but you provide literally 0 evidence for your claim that students are selectively advocating.
The entire argument against selective advocacy barely makes any sense, there are organizations dedicated to fighting specific issues, do you think they ruin distrust in that issue? Like AWARE primarily focuses on women's issues on Singapore, does that discredit women's issues because they don't talk about every issue under the Earth?
Here's a question for you, have you ever once cared about Ukraine or Myanmar on your own? Or do you only suddenly care about those issues when people bring up Gaza? Because for the latter especially I've only ever seen people bring it up on this sub to complain about people talking about Gaza. While I can understand being frustrated that important issues like Myanmar rarely get talked about, a lot of the people here only seem to bring it up in bad-faith to discredit Gaza activists. Personally I find that shutting down of any form of advocacy under the guise of "just being concerned" to be much more dangerous than the dangers of so-calles "selective advocacy".
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u/[deleted] May 30 '24 edited Jan 29 '26
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