re: "Rights education key to resolving conflict" (BP, October 26, 2020)
Dear editor,
Ruangsak Suwaree is mistaken when he claims that "the young protesters ... tend to use emotions and feelings more than reason." On the contrary, it is precisely because they use reason, sound critical thinking, and solid factual awareness of Thai history that they pose such a threat to the traditional forces that oppose democracy and human rights for the Thai nation.
The students from Thailand's best schools and universities are intelligent, informed, and morally aware. They know what respect for reason, knowledge, democracy and human rights entails. They have much to teach some older folk still suffering the faith-based traditional propaganda of the status quo that is responsible for having made Thailand what it is today. Just listen to them to know.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on MonthDate, 2020, under the title "Educated protesters" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2008907/just-as-prayut-hoped
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