Back before the internet was around Dagmar Kanzlerwould have assembled a protest, instead she is encouraging others to join a Facebook group demonstrating anger towards a 10-week old strike at York University in Toronto.
Ms. Kanzler is making a few points on behalf of the 50,000 York students whose classes were interrupted 10 weeks ago with no sign yet of when they will resume. She wants classes to resume as quickly as possible and a way found to complete the academic year without extending it to the summer. And, oh, she has something to say to parents who are contemplating sending their children to York.
“If I was talking to another parent face-to-face, I would say really think long and hard about York before deciding to send your kid there,” she said.
This is just another example of how an anti-tribe can form with the right (or wrong) conditions. Facebook merely makes it easier for people to connect and share their anger.
