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On the other side of the pond, in Canada- https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/hong-kong-protests-tension-spills-over-onto-simon-fraser-university-campus h
by guardiangod 7y ago
On the other side of the pond, in Canada-
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/hong-kong-protests-tension-spills-over-onto-simon-fraser-university-campus https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/hong-kong-protests-...
>At Simon Fraser University, a controversy over three “Lennon Walls” — fixtures where people can post notes of support or inspirational wishes — shows how tensions related to increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong may get harder to manage on Canadian campuses. At least one academic is calling on all involved — both students and universities — to take a more formal, respectful approach.
>The original Lennon Wall, located outside the main Bennett Library, was “repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, with post-it notes taken down. It’s gone for now,” said Wan.
Here's a personal account-
https://www.reddit.com/r/simonfraser/comments/ciymgc/id_like_to_share_my_own_experience_at_the_lennon/ https://www.reddit.com/r/simonfraser/comments/ciymgc/id_like...
>I visited the Lennon Wall on campus on Friday (on the left side of the library) at 15:30. There were a handful of students speaking in Mandarin, one of them speaking very loudly (we’ll call him A). I started walking up to the wall and examining the notes closely, one other (I assume local) SFU student was doing the same as well. This student started asking if I know anything about what’s going on, so I started having a conversation with her. However, within seconds, A and his friends started walking up close to us and he started loudly interjecting his own opinion on us. It was not until the student that I was having a convo with indicated that she was having a private conversation with me that A had finally stopped. Later on, while I was still on scene, I heard A loudly say (in Mandarin) that, “if protests in Hong Kong had happened here in Vancouver, the RCMP would’ve shot all of them dead”. I found it extremely distasteful that A had said that.
- rolltiide 7y agoSounds like any college campus, but instead of some fringe politician’s recruits recruiting impressionable idealist students for quirky causes its chinese students interjecting Odd, but really not that foreign the way they are acting on a college campus: Aggressively passionate about an ideology nobody here cares about
- andy_bandy 7y agoIt goes beyond problems in HK. It also happened when the University of Toronto elected a Canadian citizen of Tibetan origin student body president. 'China is your daddy': Backlash against Tibetan student's election prompts questions about foreign influence Chemi Lhamo, 22, got thousands of hateful comments after becoming U of T Scarborough student president https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/china-tibet-student-election-1.5019648 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/china-tibet-student-e...