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by mdp2021 1747 days ago
Have you also noticed odd phenomena coming from Canadian education? I was quite shocked by seeing years ago recordings of debates or conferences involving academicians on the stage of university halls, in which the audience behaved like hooligans in a stadium: "guts, guts, guts, guts, yeeeah, booo...".

In one, the two academicians acted with an appearance of moderation in the exposure of their ideas, but the appearance was really acted, and overacted - look down, hesitate, mumble, modulate, "mhmh, we just believe that this and that"... The website of one presented very violent depictions of said ideas, including cheap mockeries in drawings (again with the implicit, "this is what you think and feel and is sensational to you if you are one of us").