milady some gun enthusiasts are wrong, yes. I absolutely think that the NRA people who held rallies near Columbine days after the massacre are not just morally inferior, they're repugnant. Of course, some people just have a gun for hunting, or even 'self defence' but would also be quite happy with more gun control.
It's First, I don't think that gender identity is a mental disorder, I did mention my feelings on gender dysphoria earlier in the thread. However, I don't think forcing someone with anorexia to eat when they are not in a place to actually accept that intervention actually does anything to solve their mental health problem. Treatment for anorexia is more than just getting someone to eat, it's often not even about food or being 'fat' at the root. If someone with anorexia, prior to their illness, was vegetarian then I wouldn't force them to eat meat just because they were dangerously thin. Their vegetarianism is part of their sense of self, the anorexia is part of their mental illness.
Assassinated Absolutely, tbh I already feel old at 26 in a class full of 18/19 year olds.
Pooch I mean, his speaking led to an increase in racist, anti-most things sentiment that the left did not anticipate and that I think lost them the election. And that sentiment is still making things actively dangerous for minority groups, with an increase in hate crimes, discrimination and anti-equality legislation at both a state and national level. That's shocking and totally unacceptable.
Ok, your question, if you were in our class and told us (or the seminar leader, or someone else of course that you felt comfortable talking to) then we would stop using the language that you were hurt by, apologise, and probably try to understand where you are coming from. Because that's what we do when that thing comes up. You'd probably also be offered the option of changing groups if we had made you feel very unsafe, not that we would want you to do that, just let you make that choice if you wanted.
Vestal I am sorry people have been so awful to you, that is not appropriate no matter how much you disagree. Again, I wouldn't use TERF to yell at someone in that manner, and while I admit to laughing at the TERF joke in class (which, thinking about it, was really bad to laugh at) I wouldn't want to make anyone uncomfortable or unhappy.
sleigh they are allowed to feel unsafe, and if there's a large enough group that feels unsafe they can campaign to not feel unsafe. The policies are the way they are because students voted on them.
pooch it depends what her position was? If she was a women's officer that was unwilling to be fair to transwomen, then as they form part of the group she was supposed to represent it would be fair for them to ask for her to not represent them. They would likely have also had support from other people too. If she was LGBT officer again, there would appear to be a conflict of interest.
I do just want to add that a BIG reason for no-platfoming someone is to do with security concerns, if you allow someone to speak and the students are angry about it you could face difficulties keeping both speaker and students safe. Many times speakers will be postponed, or asked to speak off campus as a compromise.