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Monday, 7 December 2015
quote [ Ms Namazie said that "After my talk began, ISOC 'brothers' started coming into the room, repeatedly banging the door, falling on the floor, heckling me, playing on their phones, shouting out, and creating a climate of intimidation in order to try and prevent me from speaking."
The hecklers were asked repeatedly to be quiet and told by organisers that there would be an opportunity to ask questions or make comments at the end. The Muslim hecklers repeatedly interrupted the early part of the talk, shouting "safe space" and laughing. ] "Safe space", my ass.
Oh, and if you think no sane person could applaud what the Islamic society did, here's what the Goldsmiths Feminists had to say about it.
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kylemcbitch said @ 9:57am GMT on 13th December
I am all for almost everything involved is safe spaces, except, vitally where they require conformity to majority (of the groups) opinions. Obviously, no one wants to open the door to a gay safe space someone of the opinion that gay people are going to hell, and so the concept is valid in some regards. But the line is often not drawn as thickly as it should.
Which is why we have the sort of strange phenomenon we are seeing with them now, where they are used as places where it's safe to have ideas free from criticism, instead of as places safe to be what you are (gay, black, a woman, etc.)
Such a thing is directly abhorrent to the very concept of a university, and has absolutely no place there.
kylemcbitch said @ 10:00am GMT on 13th December
I am all for almost everything involved in safe spaces, except, vitally where they require conformity to majority (of the groups) opinions. Obviously, no one wants to open the door to a gay safe space someone of the opinion that gay people are going to hell, and so the concept is valid in some regards. But the line is often not drawn as thickly as it should.
Which is why we have the sort of strange phenomenon we are seeing with them now, where they are used as places where it's safe to have ideas free from criticism, instead of as places safe to be what you are (gay, black, a woman, etc.)
Such a thing is directly abhorrent to the very concept of a university, and has absolutely no place there.
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kylemcbitch said @ 9:57am GMT on 13th December
I am all for almost everything involved in safe spaces, except, vitally where they require conformity to majority (of the groups) opinions. Obviously, no one wants to open the door to a gay safe space someone of the opinion that gay people are going to hell, and so the concept is valid in some regards. But the line is often not drawn as thickly as it should.
Which is why we have the sort of strange phenomenon we are seeing with them now, where they are used as places where it's safe to have ideas free from criticism, instead of as places safe to be what you are (gay, black, a woman, etc.)
Such a thing is directly abhorrent to the very concept of a university, and has absolutely no place there.
