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Masuma Khan writes a nasty anti white article. People are rightly upset about. They are free to tell her off as well. My problem is when the school tries to punish her for her free speech. The DSU has no official connection to any university. The university has no more business trying to punish her for something that she wrote on her own free time than they do trying to punish me for writing this post on this forum.
Normally I would agree with you. I'm making an exception here. Why? First, universities have, under intense pressure from people like Khan, put themselves into the business of policing just this sort of 'offensive' and 'intolerant' statements from their students and faculty, wherever it occurs. Second, there is no question, NONE, that if the roles were reversed, Khan would have been the first to lay an outraged complaint and demand the white student be expelled and that the entire student council be forced to undergo sensitivity and anti-racism training.
BTW, no, you cannot choose to stop supporting them. The university requires students to fund them and other such student unions at Canadian colleges and universities to the tune of millions of dollars every year.
I agree that Ms. Khan would be the first to complain and make demands. I just think that universities should get back to the business of educating first, and secondarily preparing young people for life as an adult. All this "safe space" crap is NOT preparing anyone for the real world. No one is going to step in and save the day when you offended in the real world. I get offended multiple times a day at my job. It is part of working with the public. Everyone wants to take out their bad day on me. I have to suck it up and deal with it. I can't imagine what people in retail and food service go through. That amount of abuse I probably could not deal with.
I did not know that students had to financially support the student union. Thirty seconds of research proved that to be the case. I stand corrected sir. The fact that my money is involuntarily supporting Ms. Khan, I would want a lot more say in taking her to task. Still I would prefer that the universities stay out of it altogether. Quit forcing students into paying money to these organizations if they are indeed separate from the university (as the university claims), and quit trying to censor "offensive" speech that happens off of campus property.
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