What’s happening at Columbia?

[Horace]

The ginger with the squeezed face looks American.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

Also - "None of them look American at all. Not a single one".

Also, none of them look like students.

[Mik]

@George-K they look a little long of tooth for students

[George K]

@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

@George-K they look a little long of tooth for students

In fairness, some might be faculty.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

Students.

In the comments: "Looks like the Star Wars cantina scene."

There's two there that JWH, maybe two more with good makeup...

[George K]

@Jolly said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

There's two there that JWH, maybe two more with good makeup...

I'm surprised not one person has made that comment in the "At 92" thread.

[Horace]

I imagined how disappointed the Asian guy’s parents are going to be.

[Renauda]

@George-K said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

@George-K they look a little long of tooth for students

In fairness, some might be faculty.

To me they look like people who ought to know better than they do.

Which reminds me….

The other day during a press conference in NYC the mayor made some statement to the effect that agitators from the outside were brought in to radicalise “our children” attending the university. I agree that protesting students behave like children but they are adults 18 years of age of and over. They should be called adults and treated like adults. Calling them children lets them off the hook for their actions. The mayor, whoever he is, is way out of line referring to the students as children. I can only hope he too knows better. I doubt it.

[Doctor Phibes]

If I'm honest I don't really think I was an adult until I was at least 25. Some have said considerably later.

[Renauda]

@Doctor-Phibes

Point taken that few people, especially males, do act like adults until over 21. Some never do. But that is not the my point. 18 year olds are legally adults, not children. While their behaviour may be childish, their responsibility and accountability are those of an adult.

[George K]

@Renauda said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

few people, especially males, do act like adults until over 21

As I've said many, many times. It's not like, at age 21, the "maturity switch" gets flipped to the "on" position.

18 year olds are legally adults, not children.

Yup. You want the benefits (voting, marriage, drinking, etc) be prepared to accept the responsibilities and consequences

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

You want the benefits (voting, marriage, drinking, etc)

Americans aren't allowed to drink at 18, so they are still being treated differently at that age in that way at least.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

Americans aren't allowed to drink at 18

In some states, like Wisconsin, it was permitted for beer. A Friday night trip up to Kenosha was a common occurrence in the college crowd.

I believe it's still permitted if in the company of your parents. I had beers at a restaurant with D2 when she was 19.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

Americans aren't allowed to drink at 18

In some states, like Wisconsin, it was permitted for beer. A Friday night trip up to Kenosha was a common occurrence in the college crowd.

I believe it's still permitted if in the company of your parents. I had beers at a restaurant with D2 when she was 19.

Which really emphasizes the point that they're not considered to be fully adult. Obviously, they can join up and go fight in wars and shit, but they're not allowed to drink because it's bad for their health or something.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

Which really emphasizes the point that they're not considered to be fully adult

Yeah, but you can get pretty shit-faced on beer, amirite?

But your point about drinking with an adult/parent/guardian is a valid one.

[Mik]

[George K]

@Mik I believe I commented that all these protests, or at least many of them, are simply students LARPing.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

Yeah, but you can get pretty shit-faced on beer, amirite?

I don't know for sure but I'm willing to start a research project, provided I can get the funding.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

She expressed that amazingly well.

[Renauda]

@Doctor-Phibes

Obviously, they can join up and go fight in wars and shit, but they're not allowed to drink because it's bad for their health or something.

I think there’s more to it than health. In part it’s a lingering hangover from the Temperance Movement of the 19 Century and Prohibition. The roots there go into puritanical Protestant morality on sinful excess and immoral behaviours. Some provinces here went through it as well and were slow to change the law from 21. Most have the legal age set at 19. Alberta, Quebec and Manitoba have the age set in line with the age of majority - 18 years old. All three of those provinces have always maintained the strongest French roots tied to the Catholic Church in the country.