Comment by verve_rat
5 hours ago
Collective punishment is a war crime, I don't know why people think it would be effective on children? All it does is breed resistance and resentment, as you say.
5 hours ago
Collective punishment is a war crime, I don't know why people think it would be effective on children? All it does is breed resistance and resentment, as you say.
It was de rigueur for us, but then again our housemaster was an Afrikaner. And no, it didn’t work, we’d just plot collective revenge on him, and collectively figure out how to escape the punishment.
> but then again our housemaster was an Afrikaner
What are you saying?
That the apartheid regime and its proponents were not terribly nice people.
Sorry if that’s a controversial stance these days.
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