Along the lines of my post Anecdote with a deep message
See the original post here on the Daat Torah website and also read the the comments made.
Anonymous commented on my post "Do protests corrupt our society – or strengthen i…":
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I had written:
The Shomer Emunim Rebbe told me that if a person enjoys being a kanoi – he is not allowed to be one. It is not a game for excitement.
Anonymous commented:
Except from my experience on the ground in Yerushalayim, most of the people who protest are the ones who "enjoy" it.
There are very very few who protest who actually don't draw enjoyment/excitement from it.
Put it this way, I would hazard to say (hazard as no statistics, just based on views on the ground) that a larger percentage of people who view themselves kanoim are doing it for the wrong reasons (i.e. enjoyin it) then those who go to co-ed jewish schools (as most simply think its the best school for their children, albiet they might be mistaken).
And this even in small cases, not major ones like have provoked this discussion.
For example, I was waiting with my mother in the outskirts of bnei brak once for a bus. There were some chareidim, but as it was on the outskirts it wasn't really a chareidi area, and a chiloni soldier came with what I assume was his girlfriend. They held each other and kissed. An older woman scolded them harshly. However, it wasn't just scolding, there was an air of superiority, of being happy to scold them, of getting pleasure from it, as well as affirmations from the chareidim around her.
Another example is a someone in the Mir had an issue with his baal dira, that the landlord wanted to kick them out to raise rent. R. Finkel said it was assur what the baal dira was doing. So a friend, who enjoys being a protester/nudnik was the one who stood outside when prospective renters came and told all of them "The Rosh Yeshiva says its assur". I'm not particularly arguing that this is a kanoi case and hence is wrong, I just bring it as an example of enjoying, and that the people who would tend to protest loudly are the ones who gain enjoyment on some level from it. I personally think the RY is well aware of this, and hence why the sign was up in the Mir not to protest (I also tend to think that talmidim in the Mir have the best opportunity to learn middot when compared against the other major chareidi yeshivot).
At the end of the day, I really don't think you are sensitive enough to the facts on the street and what actually happens and how the majority actually feel.
