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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by makomk on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @06:44AM (#11478432)
What actually seems to be causing controversy is that students are telling people with national columns in the press that they're not welcome. No-one actually cares about people preventing views from being aired, because no-one hears about it. For example, if I recall correctly Bindel used libel threats to stop the press linking to or providing details of academic criticism of some shoddy, politically-driven research she was using to lobby the Government. No-one cared. Most people don't even know it happened.

The students behind this find the notion that they're somehow silencing nationally-published journalists by telling them they're not welcome farcial, and I agree.

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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by vidarh on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @08:39AM (#11478954)
If they are not welcomed by anyone, a very telling demonstration would be to let them speak to empty rooms.

If these students believed the rooms would be empty, I strongly suspect they wouldn't have a problem with letting them come and be humiliated while their opponents made fun of them outside.

Presumably most of the opposition to these speakers is because they know perfectly well that they will have an audience, who want to hear what they have to say.

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