University of plymouth students union bans newpapers they disagree with...

And they will remain so, but in the real world - outside of the parroting echo chamber of dullard, single IQ student politics - everybody ignores the **** out of them and they have no effect on the world.

That's why it's not worrying: they can't do anything.

Pretty much

The SU are saying that the views of Daily Mail, Sun and Daily Express are hate-speech. Pretty strong.

So, they haven't merely stopped the campus shop from stocking these papers, they have blanket-judged readers of those papers too. Quite intolerant. Typically "progressive" behaviour to want to shut down and demonise those with different views.

I like to read The Sun sometimes. Doesn't make me a racist, a sexist, or any other label. It just makes me more open-minded than someone who doesn't.

The SU are saying that the views of Daily Mail, Sun and Daily Express are hate-speech. Pretty strong.

So, they haven't merely stopped the campus shop from stocking these papers, they have blanket-judged readers of those papers too. Quite intolerant. Typically "progressive" behaviour to want to shut down and demonise those with different views.

I like to read The Sun sometimes. Doesn't make me a racist, a sexist, or any other label. It just makes me more open-minded than someone who doesn't.

The university of Plymouth has just banned three right wing newspapers from being sold. Now well I can’t defend those papers (I honestly dislike them) I do think this is a perfect example of why universities, or more specifically their “unions” are becoming jokes.

Freedom of the press is a fundamental part of democracy. If you disagree with a viewpoint you convince others that you are correct you don’t ban them from reading things you don’t agree with.

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/plymouth-students-vote-to-ban-hate-filled-tabloids/story-29947153-detail/story.html



This is a worrying trend and Plymouth seems to be getting worse… as do a large number of universities.

And they will remain so, but in the real world - outside of the parroting echo chamber of dullard, single IQ student politics - everybody ignores the **** out of them and they have no effect on the world.

That's why it's not worrying: they can't do anything.

Because you're ignoring the **** out of them, aren't you?

If these students are the hopeless nonentities you claim them to be why do you feel the need to make numerous comments about them on a forum? 😉

I am, yes.
I'm having nothing to do with the SUs in question. I'm not directing any comments towards them. I'm not engaging with them in any way.

I am, however, communicating to others that while numpties like this exist on campus, they don't do anything in the real world.

Informing other people who might be worried about what effect this may have that it will have little to no effect whatsoever is not a waste of time. Alas, the same cannot be said of the sarcasm you're attempting to employ.