Idiotic newspaper editorials

RedEyedAbyss

Inspiration for this thread: our lovely media's reaction to Thomas Mulcair (NDP leader, opposition) using the term "Dutch disease". Because after all, disease is supposed to be something bad, which means that he obviously hates Western Canada and is a bad person for trying to divide the country, never mind what the actual point is (and as someone who prepared for a manufacturing job as opposed to a natural resources job, this is very relevant to my concerns).

To not dwell too much on specifics, I was contemplating leaving the "idiotic" out of the thread title, because most of them (by confirmation bias) I read are pretty terrible. They seem to consist primarily of people blowing tongues at whomever disagrees with them, whether it be prominent figures who complain about the status quo or those damn spoiled rotten university kids who dare to protest against having even more of a financial burden upon graduation (old people whining about young people whining is a common trend for some reason). I wouldn't mind them so much if they actually had constructive things to say, but the writers seem more interested in saying "Shut up!" rather than actually dealing with issues. Then again, that's probably because it's the Conservative Party's modus operandi.

Icalasari

About the Quebec protests... Uh, didn't they attack students who went to class? Because that's something I can see as bad (along with keeping people who still want to go to class from going to class. If they are still going, then physically preventing them won't change their minds to join your cause...)