daveza
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When they grow up they will be too embarrassed to show this to their children.
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SAX Appeal 2016 - Your thoughts?
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When they grow up they will be too embarrassed to show this to their children.
Nom Chompsky
High Tory
They probably don't know what Comrade Che said about black people.
Hint: It's not very nice.
copacetic
King of the Hippies
I was indeed wondering why they were all so politely dressed.
If they were actual hippies they'd be all in favour of dressing provocatively.
That's better. These sort of people are not in any way progressive.
AfricanTech
Honorary Master
Is that why there was no 'gees' this morning.
#boringsax2016
#boringsax2016
So I've been out of Cpt for Sax Appeal sale day for the last 7 yrs.. And the last year I was at varsity and years before I sold quite a few of them. Anyways some stuff I noticed..
1. Magazine cost has gone up a lot since.. It's R30? Nowadays vs the 5-15 when I was a student.
2. Cpt people seem less interested.. I was visiting companies this week and asked them about it and they were like yah.. But bleh. Seems like over the last few years interest was lost.
3. Students selling it seemed unenthusiastic.
4. Cash sales as primary/only needs to be revised.
1. Magazine cost has gone up a lot since.. It's R30? Nowadays vs the 5-15 when I was a student.
2. Cpt people seem less interested.. I was visiting companies this week and asked them about it and they were like yah.. But bleh. Seems like over the last few years interest was lost.
3. Students selling it seemed unenthusiastic.
4. Cash sales as primary/only needs to be revised.
AfricanTech
Honorary Master
Can't find words for how boring this Sax Appeal was
Blech!
Blech!
satanboy
Psychonaut seven
That mag is so lame, school kids like it.
Since UCT went belly up to the hooligans over the Rhodes statue it will not see a cent from me and, I suspect, a lot of benefactors will quietly withdraw their support.
Grant
Honorary Master
it used to hilarious - but now, not even worthy of lining the bottom of a bird cage
One comment on the SAX appeal fb sums it up nicely
Michael Keith
I'm personally happy with SAX appeal as a platform for sociopolitical commentary, as students should have a voice and nowhere are they as well represented as in SAX. Have been for decades and should be for decades to come.
However, I'm rather disappointed with what I see as quite a lot of hate speech in this year's edition. According to 197SAX, all whites are racist/all cisgenders are discriminatory/all males are sexist/only black people can save this country/etc etc etc.
Now that's quite a bold generalisation to make. Undoubtedly this is true in many cases but to make such a large generalisation is saddening to me. Don't paint us all with the same brush.
Remember, the NP painted all non-whites with the same brush and look how that turned out. I understand that the white population historically has a lot to answer for, but as a born free I fail to see how pointing fingers at me is going to move this country forward.
Yes, I did also read the article on how white boys from Constantia aren't actually liberal and it made me chuckle because the amount of so called 'liberal socialists' from the southern suburbs is really quite astonishing, but that's not to say there aren't white people out there trying to remedy a dire situation. And just as there are white people dragging us down, there are plenty of non-whites doing the same. Have you seen the "kill all whites" t-shirts and slogans around the country's universities? How about calling them out too? Is that really the way forward, more hatred and finger pointing? Pointing fingers and ostracizing the citizens of this country is not the way forward. It will only cause more strife and damage.
Now, I'm sure that a barrage of hate speech is about to come my way on FB because I'm a "privileged white boy", but I thought I might add my 2c (not worth much, thanks JZ) to the argument.
Michael Keith
I'm personally happy with SAX appeal as a platform for sociopolitical commentary, as students should have a voice and nowhere are they as well represented as in SAX. Have been for decades and should be for decades to come.
However, I'm rather disappointed with what I see as quite a lot of hate speech in this year's edition. According to 197SAX, all whites are racist/all cisgenders are discriminatory/all males are sexist/only black people can save this country/etc etc etc.
Now that's quite a bold generalisation to make. Undoubtedly this is true in many cases but to make such a large generalisation is saddening to me. Don't paint us all with the same brush.
Remember, the NP painted all non-whites with the same brush and look how that turned out. I understand that the white population historically has a lot to answer for, but as a born free I fail to see how pointing fingers at me is going to move this country forward.
Yes, I did also read the article on how white boys from Constantia aren't actually liberal and it made me chuckle because the amount of so called 'liberal socialists' from the southern suburbs is really quite astonishing, but that's not to say there aren't white people out there trying to remedy a dire situation. And just as there are white people dragging us down, there are plenty of non-whites doing the same. Have you seen the "kill all whites" t-shirts and slogans around the country's universities? How about calling them out too? Is that really the way forward, more hatred and finger pointing? Pointing fingers and ostracizing the citizens of this country is not the way forward. It will only cause more strife and damage.
Now, I'm sure that a barrage of hate speech is about to come my way on FB because I'm a "privileged white boy", but I thought I might add my 2c (not worth much, thanks JZ) to the argument.
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