03-17-2022, 07:21 PM
(03-17-2022, 05:31 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Were there actual riots?
Or do people just think a group of students is a riot.
I'm so fucking sick of this...I remember being a student and being harassed as a student in stores. But if I stand in a crowd with people flying the Nazi flag police and Con pols will come shake my hand.
I don’t remember that well. My recollection is that there were parties in the various houses which then spilled out over the whole street and there were bottles getting thrown around and fights, together with property damage. But I don’t have a very good recollection.
If it was just a bit of noise a few nights a year I wouldn’t be too worried about it (although note that some people seem to think that every Saturday night in a quiet residential area is still just “a few nights a year”, which is obviously inappropriate). But at the point where the crowd spills over all the lawns and damages plants and exteriors of houses in the area regardless of the wishes of the individual property owners it’s not appropriate, and characterizing it as just “students having fun” is not accurate. People may have fun but they may not, deliberately or accidentally, damage others’ property in doing so.
I’ve also heard about people coming from outside of town. At the point where some of the people may be randoms from outside of town who have just heard that it’s a lawless event, there is definitely a problem.
All of the above being said, I’m not really that familiar with what actually happens, so I can’t really tell for sure which framing is accurate. The problem is that people argue one framing vs. another and make little effort to try to establish which framing is a good-faith understanding of the real-world event.