So many people in Team Poly are confusing the right to an opinion with subject matter expertise. Call people elitist all you want, but if you "haven& #39;t done the reading," you haven& #39;t done the reading. That& #39;s not being elitist, it& #39;s being real. Don& #39;t talk on what you don& #39;t know.

And doing the reading isn& #39;t just watching Youtube videos uncritically, it& #39;s reading widely, judging the validity of sources by checking facts, logic, and interrogating the political positioning & context of the author/creator.

So many regress straight to the "you& #39;re being elitist" let me ask you this, do you think that you could play better than a rugby player you shout at on TV for being kaea? No, because you never trained to be a professional athlete, so don& #39;t shit on our academics so easily either.

This doesn& #39;t mean you can& #39;t question, it just means that when you do, there& #39;s an assumption that you& #39;ve done the necessary work to engage respectfully, properly and intellectually - you don& #39;t need a degree for that, we all get that. But the things ya& #39;ll are pedalling, HARMFUL