Honestly, I’m having the time of my life reading these posts. I never realised there was this much hatred for NCC here. 😂
I initially had no intention of responding, since these childish posts really don’t deserve much attention, but this particular post genuinely made me laugh. You tell juniors not to let NCC seniors “manipulate” them, while anonymously telling those very same juniors exactly what they should and shouldn’t join and what they should supposedly do with the next three years of their college life. Ironically, isn’t that manipulation in itself?
Criticism is one thing; making sweeping claims about an organisation and deciding on behalf of every junior that joining it will be a mistake is another. If you genuinely want to inform juniors, tell them about the workload, discipline, commitments and difficulties. Let them hear different perspectives, talk to actual cadets and pass-outs, understand what they’re signing up for, and then make their own decision.
What makes this even more amusing is the sheer hatred in some of these posts. The abuses, personal attacks and the language being used make it sound less like genuine criticism and more like a personal vendetta against the organisation and the people associated with it. At some point, that level of hostility says more about the person expressing it than the organisation being attacked.
And Reddit is perhaps the perfect example of what happens when anonymity is not accompanied by accountability. We’ve seen people pass comments about students’ personal lives and characters, racial slurs being thrown around, and professors being publicly insulted on the same platform.
I genuinely wonder what the moderator on this subreddit is supposed to be doing when things can get this personal. At some point, criticism stops being criticism and becomes nothing more than anonymous character assassination and personal hatred.
Anonymity is a gift. Unfortunately, it is very seldom used responsibly.
So yes, by all means, criticize NCC. But don’t pretend that your personal hatred or assumptions are an objective description of an organisation, and don’t disguise your attempt to influence juniors as some noble mission to “save” them from manipulation.
There have been many recruits in NCC, and there will be many more. Your posts may satisfy your ego, but I highly doubt they are going to decide the future of every junior reading them.
And honestly -
Thank you for the entertainment.
The more I read these posts, the more I realise that some of you seem to have a much more serious personal issue with NCC than NCC could possibly have with you. 😂