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11:09 am
July 23, 2005
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rreynolds
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Voting in political cartoons…
http://dailycal.org/article.php?id=19024
yesssssssssssshhhhh
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Robert Reynolds
Co-founder, NYRA-Berkeley
"The suffrage," declared a 1776 petition of disenfranchised North Carolinians, was "a right essential to and inseparable from freedom." Without it, Americans could not enjoy "equal liberty."
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11:25 am
July 23, 2005
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SciVille
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That's awesome!!!
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9:21 pm
July 23, 2005
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rreynolds
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we have actually achieved political cartoon level!
but i don't exactly get it. Are they saying that kids are stupid brainless kids who abandon their fun for an hour to picket or are they saying that we are abandoning it forever and wanting the vote? Overall, do you think it's negative or positive? Anyone in this chatroom can take this question: all…one of you
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Robert Reynolds
Co-founder, NYRA-Berkeley
"The suffrage," declared a 1776 petition of disenfranchised North Carolinians, was "a right essential to and inseparable from freedom." Without it, Americans could not enjoy "equal liberty."
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9:31 pm
July 23, 2005
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Yasha
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Its mixed.
The positive spin is that teens campaigning for the right to vote (i.e. US) are professional, competent people, and we are shedding the childish stereotype youth are often stuck with.
The negative spin on it is that we are selling out and turning our backs on being young, and trying to grow up too fast and all that.
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10:56 pm
July 23, 2005
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Yeah, it's surprisingly similar to the old idea that if women have the same rights (and responsibilities associated therewith) as men, they lose part of their essential femininity. Bollocks, I say. If anything, I believe an empowered youth is more capable of having a healthy childhood than one who is viciously oppressed and infantilized by their parents and society.
Why, just look at me, for example!  
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11:19 pm
July 23, 2005
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Anduwaithe
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Oy. Instead of feeling ashamed of being an adult, why don't you use the expanded capabilities that you have been afforded as an adult to help effect political change on behalf of the youth you care so much about? Think of it as a blessing, rather than a curse. To put it another way, suppose you were a poor man who spent your whole life advocating for the needs of the poor, and one day you won the lottery. Would you feel sorry for yourself, no longer being a part of the group you care so much about the needs of? I doubt it. Or for that matter, do you think slaves who were freed felt sorry for themselves no longer being in chains? Of course not. So why do you feel shame about no longer being a "youth" as you define it? With all due respect, that seems a bit ageist, to me. You're defining your self-wroth in terms of your age, and not the content of your character. Isn't that the kind of mentality we're all working to change?
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