Demonstrating For Children

[blahflowers]

OK, you're young, glamorous and filled with rage at the injustices at the world. When you find a demonstration to go to, what you DO NOT DO is invite the person that caused the demonstration to happen because that would be an incredibly stupid thing which would devalue the whole point of the demonstration. It would also help not to get angry and self-defensive when you are criticised and instead try and understand other people's anger at your incredibly boneheaded move.

So I'd just like to welcome the Queer Youth Network to leftist politics. They are having their own demonstration at the same place as the older people, with Julie Bindel as 'their' extra special guest. Does that make them the Judean People's Front or the People's Front of Judea?

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[gane5h.livejournal.com]

According to a post on the Facebook group:

David Henry of QYN has confirmed that this is not an official QYN action and that the board of directors feel it would be "inapproprate for Julie Bindel to be part of the demonstration". He is seeking further clarification from the QYN members involved.

[fridgemagnet.livejournal.com]

Are they some sort of Dada protest group?

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

I was starting to wonder about the performance art dimensions of it myself. Perhaps we're in a David Sedaris story?

[theorybitch.livejournal.com]

My favourite bit of the thread on QYN is one person who "has a French lesson that day but if I can get my parents to pick me up early and drop me at the protest, I will come." Bless the cotton socks of the little bourgeois rebellion.