Why do intellectuals support yobs?

Silly World

They don't support them, they support an honest fair, system, the term yobs could be considered as something that shows you are against a group of people as opposed to listening to the individual

BoyRacer

We don't

disco

Not intellectuals, Liberal do-gooders who more often than not will live on a splendid estate far removed from the Yobs. Most will probably change their tune should they or their family become victims.

Bossman â„¢

I nver though though about it to be honest

cunny

I don't - never have done - never will. On what statistics do you base your question?

JZD

These sorts of questions, with their Daily Mail headline overtones are, with respect meaningless because the terms mean precisely what the questioner wants them to mean and nothing else.

In this instance:
"Yobs" = people I dislike and who have no defining characteristic other than being 'yobs'
"ordinary people" = me ('the questioner')
"intellectuals" = people who disagree with me.

So, the question is:
I am an ordinary person, I dislike yobs, therefore all 'ordinary people' dislike yobs; certain people disagree with me over how yobs should be treated, they are therefore by definition not 'ordinary people' and must be 'intellectuals' therefore intellectuals oppose ordinary pople and are therefore on the side of yobs.

Simple isn't it?

Well, it is if you're simple.

Andrew C

MISPLACED GUILT TRIP

abiogeek2

I'm fairly educated. I read a lot, and i'm probably going to be embarrased, but what the hell is a Yob? If I new what a Yob was your question might make sense to me.

nativexile

What? Oxbridge starters who are still feeling out the uni they're at?

diamonds

hmm..not quite sure what your question means really...but dont you think parents have a responsibilty to raise their children to be normal human beings...& not yobs? because i do!

Capt Jack

I think the simple answer is, they don't. They stand up for universal rights for all of us, and argue against untenable proposals. It may seem like they are suporting yobs, but they're actually supporting everyone.

Duirmuid

I understand what u r saying but "yobs"
are not just working class.

see link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/1402575.stm

Bad behaviour by youngsters knows no class division - it may be done in a different way and covered up because their parents are in positions of power. So u dont have their kids exploits splashed across the papers so frequently.
Perhaps they dont want to introduce laws that would actually punish their kids as well! if caught.
The magistrates are not handing down the punishments that are fitting for all "yobs".

expatriate_taxes

Watch for intellectual bashing - could be an early sign of fascism

danceswithwolves

Its that public school boy image they have, they think that yobs are the peasant class and havent a clue what they are really like as they have never had to suffer their behaviour.

waxinmoon

I think specialist and intellectuals are making too many excusess for younsters these days, and yobs( or animals as I call them) get away with murder:litterally.
It' s humiliating as many of us came from a difficult family, ignorante house hold, violence.But many of us are respectible people who are tring to be part of society by playng by the rules not against it. So don't give me the vicious circle. You can be a better person than the one you begin your life with, if you want it.
Parents, do need to give a little more tough love aand set an exemple or they'll end up sayng :do what i say don't do what i do.

womble

p.c gone mad again. what else can i say. give the yobs a tougher sentence and the parents a massive kick up the back side and maybe just maybe common sense will be restored

Facile Princeps

It is right on liberals who defend the yobs.. And there is nothing intelectual about them

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