Cambridge students cancel theme party over 'cultural appropriation' fears

Arab Jews means Arab Jews, not Arabs. Judaism is practiced only by Jews, because Judaism is national Jewish religion:
"Judaism ( ... the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos)[3] encompasses the religion, philosophy, culture and way of life of the Jewish people".
I'm just trying kindly explain you that Jews are not Arabs and Arabs are not Jews. I hope that eventually you will be able to understand this complicated academic fact.

university is more than just an institution of learning. It's about Learning and experiencing new things and there should be safe guards in place to stop silly and hateful things from happening and causing mental and emotional disturbances. You can't just tell these people to shrug it off,doesn't make the problem go away

You can't just tell these people to shrug it off

university is more than just an institution of learning. It's about Learning and experiencing new things and there should be safe guards in place to stop silly and hateful things from happening and causing mental and emotional disturbances.

I can, and that's my proposed solution for any of these posers that isn't willing to take a break/drop out.



And these 'cultural appropriation' protesters are opposed to that -- they don't want to experience new things that they don't agree with, to the extent that they're willing to disrupt other students' time at university. It's clear to anybody with any sense that they self-victimise themselves to get what they want, not because they're actually being subjected to any injustice.

I also think that you're confusing this issue with bullying, for which safeguards already exist. Make no mistake about it -- there aren't any victims and oppressors here. They deliberately portray it this way to get sympathy for their bulls--t cause.

university is more than just an institution of learning. It's about Learning and experiencing new things and there should be safe guards in place to stop silly and hateful things from happening and causing mental and emotional disturbances. You can't just tell these people to shrug it off,doesn't make the problem go away

So because you haven't experienced such a thing or don't believe in it,That means it's irrelevant and that universities shouldn't bother catering the victims?

But there's a line. Of course there should be rules in place e.g no racist comments with punishments if broken, but you cannot shield students from everything that offends them. That's not an accurate reflection on reality. There is no proper "safe space" in real life or the internet. What will happen when these students that were shielded from opinions that oppose their's are confronted with someone who just simply doesn't care? People need to learn that there is a lot of people out there who have all sorts of opinions and beliefs, many of which won't agree with their own.

I don't think safe-spaces are a bad idea. When slurs demeaning women are thrown around everywhere in the name of "banter", when the cultural practices of minorities are mocked, parodied and/or appropriated by people who neither understand nor appreciate the context and history behind them, when marginalised people are told to "get over it" and "deal with it" - then I can see why said marginalised groups would require safe-spaces to discuss their issues in the absence of harmful, dismissive attitudes prevalent elsewhere.

Unless you're proposing that victimhood can be claimed simply by assertion, I don't think that there are any victims to cater for here.

You also ignored most of my post to ask this question.

This is true,but people feel genuinely concerned by such issues,so I feel the reason the universities have done something about it is because they don't want to be accused of supporting racism,exploitation of peoples cultures etc.

This is true,but people feel genuinely concerned by such issues,so I feel the reason the universities have done something about it is because they don't want to be accused of supporting racism,exploitation of peoples cultures etc.

clearly,the universities feel that there are real victims here.

I think universities have done this because they are spineless and unwilling to say to these people 'You have no right, not to be offended'. (Of course this is only true in the US as in the UK we have no freedom of speech)

who is we? I'm pretty sure freedom of speech is allowed in america

I don't think safe-spaces are a bad idea. When slurs demeaning women are thrown around everywhere in the name of "banter", when the cultural practices of minorities are mocked, parodied and/or appropriated by people who neither understand nor appreciate the context and history behind them, when marginalised people are told to "get over it" and "deal with it" - then I can see why said marginalised groups would require safe-spaces to discuss their issues in the absence of harmful, dismissive attitudes prevalent elsewhere.

If you look, the 'we' is referring to, us that live in the UK.

It's true that real victims need help but safe spaces don't really help in my opinion, Safe spaces don't help them recover but rather tells them it's ok to never try solve the problem. Initially, perhaps, safe spaces are some sort of relief but I don't think it's needed in universities.
Also safe spaces should be ultimately for rape victims and victims of life changing attacks not someone who's been called a "whore" a couple of times or seen someone walk around in their culture's traditional clothing. Just no.

so you have no freedom of speech?