I find it interesting that only pro-life rallies are banned, but there is no mention of pro-abortion rallies. Interesting but not surprising.
I guess I won’t be spending 100K on that Women’s Study degree at Cardiff.
What am I missing? These college students are studying for a better LIFE. Why are they demonstrating for anti-life?
Ambiguously-worded-headline of the week award.
One of the problems we have seen on campus is the amount of “abortion porn” displayed by some of the pro-life folks. If they just displayed babies in the womb, it would have the desired effect but there is always one faction that wants to show dismembered children.
Ironically, those dismembered children are often miscarriages.
Leftists will keep trying
“Free speech” — to liberals — has always meant shouting down opposing viewpoints.
Free speech only applies when you are not standing in the way of marriage equality or reproductive choice or paycheck equality .
Those opposing progression of those rights shall have NO rights and must be destroyed.
Once upon a time, I looked into working in the university/student affairs area. I quickly learned that it was not for me. I also learned that many of the more egregious examples of leftism on university campuses we hear about come from these folks, or the groups they sanction.
That’s not to say there aren’t problems in the academic side of things. There are indeed Ward Churchill types out there. I had the misfortune of having one of those types as an undergrad. But really, they were few and far between. Most of my profs were fair-minded, no matter what their personal views were.
Student Affairs, though...yikes. Easily the most intolerant, most PC police fascists I’ve ever had the “pleasure” of dealing with. Extremely elitist, too. The folks I ran across really thought their feces didn’t have an aroma. I’ve run into their kind at three different universities, and each was worse than the last.
(apologies to any FReeper working in this area, who doesn’t fit the liberal-fascist type I described. Be glad to know there are actually some normal folks in the field)
So yeah, it doesn’t surprise me the Student Union at this college tried to squelch pro-life assemblies.
Sometimes, the extreme has to be held up for public viewing and commentary, before all thinking individuals agree that a thing or a movement has finally gone too far, and looks to be a ridiculous parody of itself. See the hate, in bold relief.
The fact that this vote and related effort took place is the most disturbing aspect of the story.
Seems these leftist little pricks didn’t read their own country’s history about the development of free speech and associated rights, which cost them hundreds of thousands of lives in two world wars.
Seems like the Nazis did win some of their war on human rights, in England.