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Title: Safe Space Bans "Hand Gestures Which Denote Disagreement"
Post by: rangerrebew on April 05, 2016, 12:48:56 pm

Safe Space Bans "Hand Gestures Which Denote Disagreement"
April 4, 2016
Daniel Greenfield


What do you do once you've banned dissenting speech? Why you ban dissenting hand gestures. Then dissenting eye and eyebrow movements. Then dissenting thoughts.

    Imogen Wilson, the vice-president for academic affairs at Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA), spoke out against safe space rules becoming “a tool for the hard left to use when they disagree with people”, following the incident last week.

    According to the association’s rules, student council meetings should be held in a “safe space environment”, defined as “a space which is welcoming and safe and includes the prohibition of discriminatory language and actions”.

    This includes “refraining from hand gestures which denote disagreement”, or “in any other way indicating disagreement with a point or points being made”.

    Although the vote went in her favour, with 18 people voting to remove her and 33 voting for her to be allowed to remain, she was later threatened with another complaint after shaking her head while someone was speaking.

Yes, there is also to be no head shaking. Or any facial expressions whatsoever. And obviously the subject is a safe space for anti-Semitism.

    She said: “At that meeting we were discussing BDS, the movement to boycott Israel. I made a long and passionate speech against us subscribing to this, on the basis it encourages anti-Semitism on campus. It was only after I made that speech that someone made a safe space complaint. I can’t help but think it was a political move against me."

Of course it was.

Safe spaces are meant to be safe for hating the right sort of people. The people the left finds worthy of hating.

Title: Re: Safe Space Bans "Hand Gestures Which Denote Disagreement"
Post by: andy58-in-nh on April 05, 2016, 01:54:41 pm

Here's one for all the tender little snowflake Fascists out there... 
   
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Title: Re: Safe Space Bans "Hand Gestures Which Denote Disagreement"
Post by: Relic on April 05, 2016, 02:01:35 pm

Quote from: andy58-in-nh on April 05, 2016, 01:54:41 pm

Here's one for all the tender little snowflake Fascists out there... 
   
(http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3Lzg4L21ycm9nZXJzLjEwNWU3LmdpZgpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4/f0bc6a46/07f/mrrogers.gif)

That's awesome!   :silly:

Title: Re: Safe Space Bans "Hand Gestures Which Denote Disagreement"
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on April 05, 2016, 03:24:51 pm

Quote from: andy58-in-nh on April 05, 2016, 01:54:41 pm

Here's one for all the tender little snowflake Fascists out there... 
   
(http://rack.3.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzE3Lzg4L21ycm9nZXJzLjEwNWU3LmdpZgpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4/f0bc6a46/07f/mrrogers.gif)

 :laugh: Is that real?

Title: Re: Safe Space Bans "Hand Gestures Which Denote Disagreement"
Post by: rangerrebew on April 11, 2016, 04:55:02 pm

I'll bet triple flutter, bun blaster farts would put them in fits of absolute panic. :silly:

Title: Re: Safe Space Bans "Hand Gestures Which Denote Disagreement"
Post by: GourmetDan on April 11, 2016, 05:08:30 pm

 
I had an uncle who went to the concentration camp for saying "That damned Nazi uniform."... we aren't far from repeating that...

Title: Re: Safe Space Bans "Hand Gestures Which Denote Disagreement"
Post by: Wingnut on April 11, 2016, 05:18:59 pm

Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on April 05, 2016, 03:24:51 pm

:laugh: Is that real?

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