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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by SolaceQuantum on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @08:49AM (#11479020)
> I fail to see the relevance of safe spaces and trigger warnings to what you wrote. Large portions of the student body hated the anti-abortion stuff and you protested against it and worked around it. Go you. That's how things should be done.

Well, you see, the tunnel was called a safe space. And people were waving around signs saying "trigger warning: gore pictures ahead".

> No one's forcing you to attend the Marxist/Nazi/Libertarian/Socialist speaker's talk. They're objecting to the attempt to prevent them speaking at all.

I don't see how this is possible, because the internet exists and also because people can make their own talks off-campus or so. Of course, no business establishment or property owner, or even university is obligated to give them a platform. No one is obligated to give any idea or viewpoint a platform. Certain subjects are approved of for platforming by the people that set the rules for how their buildings are to be used. Is that censorship?

Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by icebraining on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @09:00AM (#11479105)
Of course, no (..) university is obligated to give them a platform.

For public universities, why not?