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You really can't make this stuff up. There is a LGBT+ student union in the U.K. who are now actively pushing out what they call "white cis gay men" from playing any kind of active roll due to them not "facing oppression as gay men within the LGBT+ community". Think about that for a second...they don't face oppression so they are not given a space on their society committees. In other words, we're going to oppress you because you're not oppressed enough.
This is really not a surprising result, actually. There is a constant push to figure out who can be classified as the most underprivileged vs those who are privileged. Does a gay-black-trans-female have -2 privilege points? So the pushes those privileged white cis gay males out and you don't get to have a voice anymore because you just have it too good.
I originally heard this off of a podcast, looked it up, then followed a link to the actual PDF from the organization because I honestly thought this was another right-wing WND type of made up story. Saved everyone the time and just linked that.
When safe spaces are not enough...we have Safe(r) spaces!
http://nusdigital.s3-eu-west-1.amaz..._LGBT_motions_and_amendments_2.3_NO_NAMES.pdf
Who will win the most underprivileged challenge?
This is really not a surprising result, actually. There is a constant push to figure out who can be classified as the most underprivileged vs those who are privileged. Does a gay-black-trans-female have -2 privilege points? So the pushes those privileged white cis gay males out and you don't get to have a voice anymore because you just have it too good.
I originally heard this off of a podcast, looked it up, then followed a link to the actual PDF from the organization because I honestly thought this was another right-wing WND type of made up story. Saved everyone the time and just linked that.
When safe spaces are not enough...we have Safe(r) spaces!
http://nusdigital.s3-eu-west-1.amaz..._LGBT_motions_and_amendments_2.3_NO_NAMES.pdf
Motion 408: Defending Safe(r) spaces and No Platforming
Submitted by: Individuals
Speech for: Individual
Speech against:
Summation: Last Successful Amendment
Conference Believes
1. Safe(r) spaces can be defined in different ways, but common elements include zero tolerance
for discriminatory behaviour, being aware of the impact of one’s language, having autonomous
spaces for marginalised groups and being respectful of marginalised people’s subjective
experiences.
2. No platforming is a strategy used by Students’ Unions whereby they don’t provide a forum for
known oppressors or allow elected officers to share a platform with them.
3. Safe(r) spaces, no platforming and related measures such as the use of content warnings have
widely been criticised in parts of the media, with many commentators arguing that they serve
to simply ban opinions certain students don’t like and thereby censor free speech in
universities.
4. The magazine Spiked has created a ‘Free Speech University Ranking’, where universities and
SUs are assessed as to whether they ‘ban or actively censor ideas on campus’ or ‘chill free
speech through intervention’.
5. Misogyny, transphobia, racism and biphobia are often present in LGBT+ societies. This is
unfortunately more likely to occur when the society is dominated by white cis gay men.
6. The reps system exists to ensure that societies committees can always have a reserved place
for groups which disproportionately face oppression within the LGBT+ community.
7. Gay men do not face oppression as gay men within the LGBT+ community and do not need a
reserved place on society committees.
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4. To encourage LGBT+ Societies that have a gay men’s rep to drop the position.
Who will win the most underprivileged challenge?