Apparently, an Indian University has expelled students because they cheered a sporting team from a non-Indian country. In 2014.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/67-kashmiri-students-packed-off-to-their-homes-for-celebrating-pakistan-win-in-cricket-match/article1-1190849.aspx
I am shocked;
That an entire ethnic group was punished en masse, because some members of that group were accused - not convicted, just accused - of some wrongdoing, if expressing an opinion is wrongdoing;
That student accommodation is distributed according to ethnicity;
That freedom of opinion and speech, even in so trivial a matter, is so casually curtailed;
That the press completely ignores its role of defending personal liberty and human dignity, and restricts itself to the facts, or what pass as such, and asks no questions;
That the victims are grateful to those who partook in their expulsion, because it could have been far worse.
Like Brecht in his Scandinavian exile, when personal liberties in his native Germany were being trampled upon and apparently accepted wholesale, I am repulsed at the lack of outrage.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/67-kashmiri-students-packed-off-to-their-homes-for-celebrating-pakistan-win-in-cricket-match/article1-1190849.aspx
I am shocked;
That an entire ethnic group was punished en masse, because some members of that group were accused - not convicted, just accused - of some wrongdoing, if expressing an opinion is wrongdoing;
That student accommodation is distributed according to ethnicity;
That freedom of opinion and speech, even in so trivial a matter, is so casually curtailed;
That the press completely ignores its role of defending personal liberty and human dignity, and restricts itself to the facts, or what pass as such, and asks no questions;
That the victims are grateful to those who partook in their expulsion, because it could have been far worse.
Like Brecht in his Scandinavian exile, when personal liberties in his native Germany were being trampled upon and apparently accepted wholesale, I am repulsed at the lack of outrage.
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