My question is this: what is hate speech as visual imagery doing on a university campus? What right did the anti-abortion group who made these signs have to impose upon every viewer, every student, an active anti-Semitic and racist message?
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For example, there was a whole song and dance about if a character was Gay or European. Labels like this are a bit tongue-in-cheek to blatantly it point out, but the fact that is that it is simultaneously hilarious and uncomfortable for the audience.
When you mention genocide beside the picture of an aborted fetus at 24 weeks, you’re pretty much saying that someone who had a miscarriage is a murderer. The images that are being displayed are propaganda.
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Like all major capital projects in UBC, the microbrewery must go through three stages of exec approval and three stages of approval from the board. Currently the project is going through the second executive-approval stage.
The notion that free speech is somehow okay, even if it compromises the safety of others, is a delusion. We pretend that violence must be physical. It doesn’t. Words and images are powerful and affect people's psyches — to deny that is ignorant.
UBC has many secrets — a vibrant underbelly. Like study spots where nobody goes or seeing a life-changing movie via the Norm, the UBC Rappers Without Borders club is like the hidden smile in the Mona Lisa that is our university.
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For a large part of the student body, the AMS represents a slew of Facebook event notifications and little else — it can be hard to see the larger picture and even harder to imagine your place connecting with it.
Although there is a semblance of openness and inclusiveness on campus, that it doesn't extend to people on the right side of the political spectrum, socially or fiscally. Talks on campus deemed misogynistic [or] racist are quashed.
Some pieces, like Terezakis and Lee's tackle topical issues, and some are focused more on lyrical or poetic form. Usually the Chan Centre showcases big names from all around the world, but this series will have a greater sense of city pride.
About half a dozen pro-life activists have set up displays outside the architecture building, displaying what one sign calls the “insanity of choice” and equating abortion to the Holocaust or Cambodian genocide.
“I was thinking along the lines of making something easier for myself and for everybody as well. When you’re signing up for courses nowadays, we want more data before we make a decision,” said Tejbir Singh.
The UBC Equestrian Club is holding their annual fundraiser in front of the new SUB right now and they brought two miniature versions of animals to help out — a horse called Princess Aurora and a goat.
The conference’s primary organizer is Stephanie Dreier, whose research examines the link between fairy tales and fantasy. Both genres share a common legacy in educating new generations about the values and traditions of a particular society.