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London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by noonespecial »

You almost feel sorry for the teacher in this case. Sure, he's about to get the just desserts of a repugnant action like this, but its kind of like a dog digging up a nest full of yellow jackets. He "deserves" the stings but he's not going to understand why he is suddenly being stung.

It boggles our tech-savvy minds that someone could be this out of touch and still have a position of any authority whatsoever, but there it is.

I also hope the best for the student, but I can't help feeling that this will be nothing but a minor setback for him as much as it seems to potentially suck now.

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by petercooper »

DickingAround wrote: post #10

What did the police say? Did the teacher believe that the UK has thought-crime laws about uncommon political beliefs? Do they?

Not so much laws but there's certainly a lot more stigma to holding unpopular opinions (or even freely expressing 'distasteful' but popular opinions, cf. responses to many UKIP supporters) in the UK compared to the USA - nowhere on the scale as in Russia or Eastern Europe though.

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by cinquemb »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #18
scarmig wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is kicking someone out of a building that bears more than a passing resemblance to a prison really sabotaging their education?

... Yes. As a self-taught programmer, I believe university is important. It gives quite a lot of advantages (mostly social ones, which are the most important). And undergrad universities select primarily based on school performance, so kicking him out definitely would've sabotaged his higher education. To piggyback on this comment in hopes of finding some assistance: I've been trying to figure out some long-term stra…

As someone who dropped out from Brown (and transferred credits from State universities I attended while in HS) and been engaging with newer educational things like project breaker[0], there are plenty of social advantages out there with "non-traditional" organizations that give more freedom and open just as many doors…

Though yes, if you are trying do research, uni might be good, but there's plenty of university politics/culture involved that might make you want to drop out again (esp with research and such), despite it all… Besides, who's to say you can't do research outside of uni?

[0] http://www.projectbreaker.org/

Re: London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”

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Post by gngeal »

omarrr wrote: post #7

Doesn't sound like the kind of teacher I'd like in my university Asked what had first inclined him to contact the police, Mr. Szemalikowski said “the fact that Kinnan has mentioned the ideologies of anarchism and individualism on this blog.” Digging himself even deeper, the headteacher added, “I must do something. In the last year he has become more and more enchanted by antiestablishment ways of thinking and has eve…

and has even said that there is an inherent risk that every government is corrupt

Well, here's one student that learned the right lesson in his Government class. :)

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