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Cambridge University union bans military from Freshers' Fair events because their presence could 'trigger' students with mental health issues
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 5, 2020 | Rod Ardehali

Posted on 02/05/2020 6:58:01 AM PST by C19fan

Cambridge University Students' Union has said that having military personnel at their freshers' fair is 'alarming' for attendees and could 'affect' their mental health.

Students voted in favour of banning societies from bringing firearms to the annual fairs after union welfare and rights officer Stella Swain suggested those with mental health issues could find their presence 'triggering'.

The motion said that the presence of military personnel carrying firearms at the fair indicate 'implicit approval of their use, despite the links between military and firearms and violence on an international scale'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: college; snowflakes; uk; university
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/src on/Meet your future leaders./src off/ If these schools continue to produce the so-called leaders we are doomed.
1 posted on 02/05/2020 6:58:02 AM PST by C19fan
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Why not “trigger” them and then pound the pish out of the spoiled little snots?

Therapy and attitude adjustment required. Do it early to save them.


2 posted on 02/05/2020 7:02:21 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: C19fan

Me thinks the Cambridge University union is Mental


3 posted on 02/05/2020 7:05:54 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Candor7

Well, Oxford students passed a resolution never to fight for king and country, during the 1930s. (War as “bad”.)

See how that turned out for them when reality struck...


4 posted on 02/05/2020 7:06:24 AM PST by CondorFlight
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If they have ‘mental health issues’ what in hell are they doing at CAMBRIDGE in the first place?............


5 posted on 02/05/2020 7:06:38 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: C19fan

I know this is probably insensitive of me, but maybe it’s the mentally ill that ought to be banned instead of the military.

Reasons aside, I wonder which group being banned would affect overall attendance more?


6 posted on 02/05/2020 7:06:41 AM PST by chrisser
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To: C19fan

WE are not doomed but the stupid Brits certainly are.


7 posted on 02/05/2020 7:08:55 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Red Badger

Between the transgenders and the snowflakes who are easily triggered, we are building societies that are run by the mentally ill, for the mentally ill.

Normal people have no place in modern society.


8 posted on 02/05/2020 7:09:33 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: C19fan

Some people just plain need triggering.


9 posted on 02/05/2020 7:10:24 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: C19fan

The infection of progressivism can fester even in such hallowed institutions as Oxford and Cambridge. Hopefully, they will successfully weather this invasion of the silly pseudo-students.


10 posted on 02/05/2020 7:11:50 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: ClearCase_guy

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in it!.................W. Shakespeare, The Tempest


11 posted on 02/05/2020 7:14:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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Ahhh....the ever renewed crop of callus neo-Stalinists of the Cambridge University Students’ Union continues to abuse the mentally unhinged students, allowing them to wander about unattended and without adult supervision.

What's next? Banning the Christmas poppers lest the idiots get triggered, whoopsie, trigger=gun=bad...mustn’t say that.

ummm, actuate the snowflakes crazy valve.

12 posted on 02/05/2020 7:23:21 AM PST by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: CondorFlight

With the wounds of WWI still fresh, and given the utter waste of millions of men at the direction of the King, at that time it was hard to blame them.


13 posted on 02/05/2020 7:27:33 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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The Union already has a mental health problem and should seek help in an attempt to become a mature and intelligent group. At present it is below a pre-school group.


14 posted on 02/05/2020 7:35:05 AM PST by mulligan (n bbnnEeThe)
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To: Red Badger

It’s why they’re there.


15 posted on 02/05/2020 7:44:52 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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1st Cambridge Student: Are you from Eaton?

2nd Cambridge Student: No, I haven’t had a thing!..............


16 posted on 02/05/2020 7:46:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: CondorFlight; Fred Nerks

See how that turned out for them when reality struck...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

They later got drafted and became cannon fodder in the war. If they had joined up early, likely many more have survived as officers.

I do not miss them, but somehow they are back yet again to try and do the devil’s work,just another iteration of Beta maleeuro-weenie cowardice , cloaked in a mistaken morass of liberal sensitivity, designed to relieve men and women of their civic duties so the commies and fascists can conquer freedom and liberty from within. The same shit is happening in Israel and in the United States , but we are fighting back, something these academic, utopian dream weavers are not used to.


17 posted on 02/05/2020 8:19:00 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Red Badger

LOL


18 posted on 02/05/2020 8:30:42 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: C19fan

And by mental health issues they mean Muslim, yes?


19 posted on 02/05/2020 8:35:39 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Normal people have no place in modern society.”

Yesterday I made the twice monthly run to town for supplies.

Tractor Supply, two grocery stores, Home Depot and Walmart.

When did society become a freak show? Blue, green, purple and orange hair, facial piercings enough to make a studded leather jacket blush, tatted up faces, horrible tattoo art in general, blue jeans that look like they were run over with a lawn mower, greasy-straight hair styles for women, black lip-stick, no one says hello in passing, and most everyone is a phone zombie.

Makes me feel like I’m the weird one.


20 posted on 02/05/2020 9:04:42 AM PST by Rebelbase (Time for Trump to go Machiavelli on the democrats and never Trump republicans.)
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