University College London’s Nietzsche Club Is Banned
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University College London’s Nietzsche Club Is Banned
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 University College London’s Nietzsche Club Is Banned
June 7, 2014 at 6:49 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2014 at 6:50 am by MountainsWinAgain.)
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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June 7, 2014 at 7:33 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2014 at 7:34 am by Napoléon.)
I agree that Nietzsche is not really right-wing. However we don't really know from this article just what the agenda of this society really was. The university could be perfectly justified (in their eyes) in shutting them down.
That said, I grow more and more skeptical of organisations and governing bodies consistently blocking freedom of speech and thought. It's actually pretty damn ironic how by so many institutions in the UK attempting to ban 'racist or fascist' material, they are in fact turning this place more and more into a fascist fucking state where no one can really say what they think. 
So, a bunch of college students in Great Britain are getting together to discuss philosophers and it occurs to no one it is just another excuse for a group of flagellates to get together ??
Except for the few that are into caning.
 
Officials authoritatively close a philosophy club out of fear that it may engender authoritarian ideas?
Pffff!!!
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Ah yes, Nietzsche . . . the guy who loathed the Reich and excoriated his fellow Germans every chance he got; the person (one of damned few in the 19th Century) who was outspokenly anti-anti-Semitic; the man who repeatedly encouraged his readers to transcend the petty prejudices of nationalism in the interest of becoming good Europeans. Yeah, sounds pretty fucking right-wing to me.
Of course, the society's antics wouldn't have surprised him much, given his views of herd morality. 
How absurd. I was browsing some of the other societies at UCL. Where is the fear of an increase in epee assaults due to the Fencing Society? Nobody could possibly become radicalized from any of the numerous religious societies could they? And then there is the American Society ha ha.
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