If students don't like a college's values maybe they shouldn't go there.
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Replying to @BaileyNagy
Same argument for 'If you don't like America being a Christian country, leave.' No, better to fix problems than avoid them.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
No, it's not the same argument. US or UK needs to be secular because of the variety of values. A college doesn't have to be secular.
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Replying to @BaileyNagy
Well, no, of course not. It can set itself up to be what it likes. However, if it is supposedly secular & traditionally committed to ...
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BaileyNagy
...encouraging a diversity of ideas including challenging ones as universities have done & fails at this, people will try to fix it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I think it's naive to say a college mustn't ban certain speakers or events. Student groups inviting hate-ists is problematic. A trojan horse
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Replying to @BaileyNagy
But 'hate-ists' is subjective. Almost no-one described that was intends to speak of hating people. Usually wrong kind of feminist.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I'm thinking 1stly of certain Islamists - eg. there is some evidence that students at UWestminster were radicalised within student meetings.
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Replying to @BaileyNagy
Not sure students are protesting Islamists tho. I wouldn't, tbh. I'd go & record and write about it. Excellent opportunity.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
How many university Islamic society meetings have you actually been to, Helen?
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I haven't been to any. I should have done, shouldn't I?
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