DrTorch
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U. London student gov't bans Nietzsche club
Those ever tolerant leftists.
http://neveryetmelted.com/2014/06/07/uni...sche-club/
Quote:This Union notes
That a group positioning itself as a “student club about traditionalist art and philosophy” and as “Tradition UCL”, has started operating at UCL.
That this group has been putting up posters with their contact details around UCL campus.
That their posters’ heading reads “Too much political correctness?”, and they advertise a study of the philosophers Nietzsche, de Benoist, Heidegger and Evola.
That a second poster appeared around four weeks after the previous one had first been put up, bearing the title “Equality is a false god” and, once again, advertising the philosophers de Benoist, Heidegger and Evola for study.
That on this second poster the group has repositioned itself as a “Nietzsche Club” and altered its contact details to include a new email address.
That the aforementioned philosophers and thinkers are on the extreme-right, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, homophobic, anti-Marxist, anti-worker and have had connections, direct or indirect, with Italian fascism and German Nazism.
This Union believes
That this group is aimed at promoting a far-right, fascist ideology at UCL.
That there is no meaningful distinction to be made between a far-right and a fascist ideology.
That this group may have connections to the wider fascist movement and other organised groups, specifically those groups using the name “Radical Traditionalism” to describe their ideology, such as the “Traditionalist Youth Network”, and the “Traditional Britain Group”.
That fascism is directly threatening to the safety of the UCL student body and UCLU members.
That fascism is used by the ruling class to divide workers and students along ethnic, national, religious, and gender lines, as a measure to split them and thus weaken their effectiveness as a force and undermine their resistance to policies of austerity, attacks on living standards and public services, and other consequences of the crisis of the capitalist system.
That fascism has no place at UCL or UCLU, and that any attempts by fascists or the far-right to organise on campus must be met with unconditional resistance.
This Union resolves
To ban and otherwise prevent the installation of any further publicity of this group around UCLU buildings, and to urge UCL to adopt the same policy in the university buildings.
To prevent any attempts by this group to hold meetings and organise events on campus.
To reject any attempts by this group to seek affiliation and official recognition from UCLU as an official club or society.
To commit to a struggle against fascism and the far-right, in a united front of students, workers, trade unions and the wider labour movement, with the perspective of fighting the root cause of fascism – capitalism. Thus, the struggle is to be united under the programme of a socialist transformation of society.
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06-09-2014 08:21 AM |
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RE: U. London student gov't bans Nietzsche club
Unfortunately Nietzsche is often considered the philosophical voice of National Socialism.
But his work is so much more than the idea of the superman that was co-opted to defend the idea of the master race. (And was further explored in Arthur Clarke's and Stanley Kubrick's "2001-A Space Odyssey.")
I'll bet that there is no ban on the work of Richard Wagner, who shared Nietzsche's views (see "Also Sprach Zarathrustra") but added the politically correct anti-semitism to achieve acceptability.
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RE: U. London student gov't bans Nietzsche club
"The higher you soar the smaller you appear to those who cannot fly"
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06-09-2014 08:59 AM |
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RE: U. London student gov't bans Nietzsche club
Gotta agree with others here. I am liberal, actually I consider myself a moderate, but I have to admit this trend of censoring right wing or conservative voices on campus is very disturbing. It really bothers me to see Universities becoming so intolerant of opposing views. Disaster waiting to happen.
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06-09-2014 09:39 AM |
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HeartOfDixie
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RE: U. London student gov't bans Nietzsche club
Freedom of speech is unique to the United States. We should do our best to maintain it, even if it means a Temple professor talking about the Holocaust.
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06-09-2014 09:51 AM |
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RE: U. London student gov't bans Nietzsche club
It really bothers me when people make racist remarks that could spur a conversation and all that happens is the person gets their ass handed to them (Paula Dean). If we are destroy people for saying what they believe, we'll just push problems deeper underground.
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06-09-2014 10:00 AM |
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