• delirious_owl
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    6 months ago

    Meaningless? I’ve listened to some excellent graduation speaches. Chris Hedges comes to mind

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, I think, we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. I know, I’m on the extreme side with never having liked such a ceremony. I think, it’s because I simply stop feeling represented with the kind of generic speech you get when addressing more than a dozen people, because I guess, I’m just too special of a snowflake…

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        6 months ago

        So we should all shut up and stop calling for an end to genocide because its “generic speech”?

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          6 months ago

          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.

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            6 months ago

            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