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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-3•4 months agoSo we should all shut up and stop calling for an end to genocide because its “generic speech”?
minus-squareEpheralinkfedilink1•4 months agoNo, that’s not a generic speech to me. In that case, you’re motivating a specific political issue and trying to convince anyone who’s still on the fence. Contentious political issues have always been excluded from the ceremony speeches I attended.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•4 months agoWhy? That’s kinda their responsibility. Especially now, during a genocide. Anyone who was speaking at a graduation now and didn’t call for action against the war is failing miserablely
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•4 months agoYou’re right, what Russia is doing in Ukraine is tantamount to genocide
So we should all shut up and stop calling for an end to genocide because its “generic speech”?
No, that’s not a generic speech to me. In that case, you’re motivating a specific political issue and trying to convince anyone who’s still on the fence. Contentious political issues have always been excluded from the ceremony speeches I attended.
Why? That’s kinda their responsibility. Especially now, during a genocide.
Anyone who was speaking at a graduation now and didn’t call for action against the war is failing miserablely
You’re right, what Russia is doing in Ukraine is tantamount to genocide
Ethnic cleansing*