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Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People
The Huffington Post's Canada The Blog ^ | May 18, 2015 | Aeman Ansari, fourth year jouralism student

Posted on 05/25/2015 1:06:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Last week The Ryersonian reported on an incident that involved two first-year journalism students who were turned away from an event organized by Racialized Students' Collective because they are white. Since then there has been a lot of commentary on the piece and a lot of debate -- a lot of the criticism is valid.

There are two sides to the story: 1) the media has a right to attend public events and report on matters that are in the public interest. The student media needs to cover initiatives that are happening on campus so that we draw attention to them and in turn create awareness (The Ryersonian reported that one student said he was covering the meeting for an assignment). 2) Marginalized groups have a right to claim spaces in the public realm where they can share stories about the discrimination they have faced without judgment and intrusion from anyone else.

I am a person of colour and a journalist and so there are two conflicting voices inside my head. But in this case one voice, that of a person of colour, is louder and my conscience does not allow me to be impartial. I have to take a side.

The organizers of the event, the Racialized Students' Collective, should have done a better job of labelling this event as a safe space on the Ryerson Students' Union online calendar. They should label safe spaces clearly and maybe even host events that educate the public on what they mean. Doing so will help the public and the media have a better understanding of the purpose and value of these spaces.

However, the point to note is not that two white students were asked to leave the event...

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: blacks; canada; college; whites
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yes, I agree...if blacks want places without whites...Zimbabwe is nice. 😊
61 posted on 05/25/2015 4:49:21 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Darksheare

>>Lol, they are proposing “separate but equal”.

Don’t kid yourself. They are proposing separate, but they expect to be elevated above equal. They are like that scene in the movie “Independence Day” where they have captured an alien and the President asks, “What do you want from us?”

The alien responds, “We want you to die.”

Except in this case, the answer is, “We want you to serve us.”


62 posted on 05/25/2015 4:55:51 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: peyton randolph

Don’t forget South Africa, if you’re not from there, well, they don’t like people from other African nation’s moving in recently, and they have the truck tires and alcohol in their recent racist rampage against other black people.


63 posted on 05/25/2015 4:57:26 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Gene Eric

Yep, cute. Not even realizing that the safest spaces they have are because of white people, and all other colors and races, who have chosen to come together, assimilate the (colorless) rights and freedoms of this grand experiment and take responsibility for their own actions, individually and in concert with others.

The New Deal was a Raw Deal, and we are paying the price. The War on Poverty was, in truth, the War for Poverty, and the libtards have managed to dumb down three generations of minority groups to the point that all they know are the politics of victimization, and they’ve become the ‘gibs-me-dat’ demographic.

It does not bode well for the future of this great nation.


64 posted on 05/25/2015 4:58:29 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2017; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

>> You really don’t see that from Little Saigon or Little Tokyo. <<

It’s interesting that Asians get together and create places like this where they support each other and take advantage of ‘outsiders’ by providing services such as Asian groceries, restaurants and gift shops.

Blacks get together and create places like Detroit.


65 posted on 05/25/2015 5:00:19 AM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ok so all that marching, all the locked arms singing “We Shall Overcome,” to end segregation in the 60’s and now they want a “do over” and have it back.

You know, I’m sick of all this crap. They can’t be pleased. Send them all back to Africa where they can be with “people of color” and have their “safe spaces.”


66 posted on 05/25/2015 5:04:49 AM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yet they want to bus white students into inner-city schools.

Need you....need space from you...need you...need space from you.


67 posted on 05/25/2015 5:05:50 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This “it’s only racism when blacks aren’t doing it” mentality will not end well.


68 posted on 05/25/2015 5:23:38 AM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perhaps society should build fences around the ethnic neighborhoods concerned and implement strict access controls. That would provide the “safe space without white people.” Let them take care of themselves without our interference. Yeah, that’s the ticket...


69 posted on 05/25/2015 5:34:02 AM PDT by Doug Loss
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As long as they don’t want any of those nasty Whites to have to contribute money in any form to their “safe places,” it’s a great idea.


70 posted on 05/25/2015 5:35:40 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fine.

How about a safe space that includes none of whitey’s money?

Feed yourself, clothe yourself, shelter yourself, educate yourself and cure yourself of any diseases.


71 posted on 05/25/2015 5:36:17 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...and a lot of debate...”

What is there to debate? If your dog poops in my yard am I required to shoot all dogs in the neighborhood to prevent the possibility that one of them just might poop in my yard?

I remember back in the day when the phrase “racial equality” meant the opportunity for all colors to advance ON THEIR OWN MERITS...not on the merits of WHITES.

Now, they are owed special and separate rights above and beyond anything ever imagined by the originators of equal rights.


72 posted on 05/25/2015 5:36:39 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Ethnic minorities deserve safe spaces free of white people”....

and vice - versa!


73 posted on 05/25/2015 5:38:17 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So they support Jim Crow.


74 posted on 05/25/2015 5:43:51 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Leaning towards Cruz or Walker in 2016. No Jeb. No Graham.)
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To: Darksheare

An angry student once said to me, “My Momma told me that Whitey would get me every time!”


75 posted on 05/25/2015 5:45:00 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Vigilanteman

The Color of Crime

http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/


76 posted on 05/25/2015 5:51:19 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

77 posted on 05/25/2015 5:54:03 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: screaming eagle2; All

“Minorities fought(and still fight)for equality,yet seem to want separation.Very illogical”

The ones still fighting do not want equality. They want superiority.

Their “equality” is that of Orwell’s Animal Farm:

Some animals are more equal than others.


78 posted on 05/25/2015 5:55:09 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How’s that working out for former white areas of Africa?


79 posted on 05/25/2015 6:01:59 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They are calling for segregation. White people, as I recall, did alright with segregation. These bigots assume the Blacks, Asians and Hispanics who are not radical bigots, want to be officially segregated from white people. They assume wrongly and it is up to Asians, Hispanics and Blacks to tell these kooks to bug off.


80 posted on 05/25/2015 6:03:00 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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