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Between all-purpose generic islamic terrorism (from Thailand to Phillipines to India to Middle-East to Paris to Belgium to London to USA), and black lives matter terrorism, the US needs a reboot.

This is that reboot.

Another brown indian dude here. I love western culture and society. I love the innovation, the science and the secularism. I'm sick of the left trying to convert it into a faux third world.

For example: I teach at a university. This semester, there's a woman walking around campus in a burka. In the freaking US of A, a woman is walking around with a burka. WTF is wrong with these people?

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> This semester, there's a woman walking around campus in a burka. In the freaking US of A, a woman is walking around with a burka. WTF is wrong with these people?

Would you have the same issue if a nun walks around in her robe?

I would have an even bigger issue if a nun walks around in her robe on a university campus.

Why?

Because I believe religion and politics have no place in a university.

And free speech, apparently.

Free speech is (sadly) already restricted at universities.

Make however a distinction between the free speech of individuals, and that of institutions (such as the church) operating on university premises. There is a place for indiscriminately allowing the former, but not the latter.

How do you distinguish between the latter, and allowing groups of individuals a place to worship as a group?

Does freedom of expression have a place?

Individual freedom of expression has a place in a university. Institutional freedom of expression (in general) does not. When a nun or priest in uniform comes to a university, they are representatives of the church. To be there, they have to ask permissions (and if the university is any good, it would deny this permission).

A student can dress up as a nun, or priest, or nazi, or wear no clothes or whatever, and I will support his right. But the church institution, or political parties, or the army have no place there. If a nun does non-church business, she should wear civilian clothing.

> A student can dress up as a nun, or priest, or whatever, and I will support his right.

You do realize that this was the point under discussion and you actually agree to what I was implying?

1. Calling black lives matter a terrorist organisation 2. Demonizing a woman for wearing her religious clothing

Hey guys I spotted the racist

And I spotted the fire retardant.

The threadstarter is absolutely a fucking moron.

why am I getting -points? I said the threadstarter (the racist guy whos post is now reported and hidden) was a total moron

Please stop name-calling. It doesn't help anything. And I say that as a person who disagrees with the guy you called a racist.

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