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Sam Adams
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Wed Jun 09 09:35:42
http://www...ortrait-Queen-common-room.html

Education secretary slams 'absurd' cancelling of the Queen as students at Oxford's Magdalen College vote to take down 'unwelcoming' portrait of the Monarch from graduates' common room because she 'represents recent colonial history'

Your culture is utterly buttfucked seb.
Seb
Member
Wed Jun 09 13:27:09
"We want freedom of speech and autonomy in universities NO NOT THAT FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!".

What students do in their common room is up to them, that's the point of a common room.

Also, as a former colony that ditched the monarch to embrace republicanism, isn't this a bit rich coming from you?

hood
Member
Wed Jun 09 13:32:57
"The motion was brought forward by MCR President Matthew Katzman, a lecturer in computer science who studied at Stanford University and is from Maryland in the USA"
Sam Adams
Member
Wed Jun 09 13:35:20
"What students do in their common room is up to them, that's the point of a common room."


Your students are retarded. That is the point.
Rugian
Member
Wed Jun 09 13:54:23
Retarded AND ill-educated. To the extent Lizzy represents colonial history at all, itd be in relation to DE-colonization.

Also colonization was the best thing to happen to those Third World mudhutters in the first place.
Rugian
Member
Wed Jun 09 13:57:26
SJWs like Seb should just come out and say that anyone born prior to 1985 should be erased from the public consciousness because they once held views that are now considered regressive.

Id at least appreciate the honesty in that case.
Paramount
Member
Wed Jun 09 14:46:40
”The motion was brought forward by Matthew Katzman from Maryland in the USA”


Why is an American trying to ban the Queen?
Pillz
Member
Wed Jun 09 15:35:17
USA is obviously infiltrating British institutions to try and subvert the monarchy and government so they can finally conquer them
kargen
Member
Wed Jun 09 18:28:36
"Why is an American trying to ban the Queen?"

It worked for us.
Seb
Member
Thu Jun 10 01:23:06
They only put up the picture of the Queen a few years ago.

This mUh hIsToRy crap is lazy bullshit.
Seb
Member
Thu Jun 10 01:26:02
It was retarded to put it up in the first place.

Putting a portrait up of the Queen in the common room smacks of the kind of silly statism of Soviet Russia where dear leader must symbolically be present in all institutions.



Sam Adams
Member
Thu Jun 10 10:53:28
Except you took it down because 'waaaaa racism'
Seb
Member
Thu Jun 10 11:46:07
Sam:

Do you understand that a common room is a private students club right? It's not part of the university. Similar to a frat house I guess.

Why they took it down or put it up in the first place is totally irrelevant - it's insane that how a very small student club decides to decorate it's room is triggering people at a global level.

Sam Adams
Member
Thu Jun 10 14:06:53
"Why they took it down or put it up in the first place is totally irrelevant"

Wrong. It is precisely the reason that matters. You are teaching your kids to hate themelves, their country, and their history.
Seb
Member
Thu Jun 10 15:18:03
Sam:

1. He's an adult.
2. They are all adults.
3. It's a private club, so no kids are exposed to it.
4. The proposer and a good deal of the members of the club aren't British so aren't a product of our education system anyway.
5. The whole point of universities is to allow young adults the freedom to reason and debate for themselves. The idea there is a defined right answer is bonkers. It is perfectly reasonable for them to decide they don't like colonialism or the monarchy. These are merely changeable aspects of the country and it is perfectly fine to oppose them, and doing so does not mean you hate the country.

What an unbelievably stunted and intellectually limited concept of patriotism you have.

After all, your entire country would not exist if a bunch of Englishman hadn't decided they didn't like colonialism and monarchy.
Seb
Member
Thu Jun 10 15:19:02
That's an impressive number of errors to make in two lines of text.
Seb
Member
Thu Jun 10 15:19:45
Bottom line, we can trust Oxford Students to think for themselves.
Sam Adams
Member
Thu Jun 10 21:28:47
Grad students at oxford are essentually kids.

"Bottom line, we can trust Oxford Students to think for themselves."

Rofl!
Nekran
Member
Fri Jun 11 01:33:14
They're obviously better it than you are, knee-jerk tabloid man.
Sam Adams
Member
Fri Jun 11 09:28:35
Ahhh, noted "thinker" nekran appears.

Still denying that genes exist?
Nekran
Member
Fri Jun 11 09:34:54
Never have. I just understand how they work far better than you.

Which admittedly isn't saying much.
Seb
Member
Fri Jun 11 11:23:49
Not everyone remains in arrested development like you Sam.
Sam Adams
Member
Fri Jun 11 12:02:13
"Nekran
Member Fri Jun 11 09:34:54"

"I just understand"


Rofl.
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