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Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking

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Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking
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Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking
March 31, 2015 at 5:41 pm (This post was last modified: March 31, 2015 at 5:46 pm by TheMessiah.)
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RE: Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking
March 31, 2015 at 5:49 pm
I can understand Muslim groups and, to a lesser extent, other religious groups having a problem with this brave woman, but feminist and atheist/agnostics groups I would expect to welcome her.

I guess they're more fearful of the backlash from Muslim groups than they are for standing up for their own ideals.

Sad and pathetic.

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RE: Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking
March 31, 2015 at 5:49 pm (This post was last modified: March 31, 2015 at 5:49 pm by Alex K.)
Maybe it was a knee jerk reaction by the super liberals because she was (is?) employed by this slightly neocon think tank, which left a bad taste in some people's mouth.
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RE: Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking
March 31, 2015 at 5:50 pm
This is an old story. Yes they did try, but she still spoke. And the objectors are too fucking stupid to understand she is totally for women's rights.
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RE: Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking
March 31, 2015 at 5:51 pm
I agree. WTF were they thinking?
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RE: Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking
March 31, 2015 at 5:53 pm
(March 31, 2015 at 5:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote: This is an old story. Yes they did try, but she still spoke. And the objectors are too fucking stupid to understand she is totally for women's rights.

I'm aware it's old, the first protest at another Uni succeeded in getting her award rescinded, but this Yale thing just baffled me. Yale is one of the most academic universities in all of America, and to see the Atheists of Yale in addition to the Feminists try to get her banned really leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

This woman is incredibly brave --- not only with her upbringing but that movie fiasco which happened a few years ago (ended with the director getting killed). Her arguments of how Islam oppresses women and liberty are incredibly insightful, I just find that petition to get her banned fucking stupid as it is, but to see other Atheists and Feminists joins in, ugh............
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RE: Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking
March 31, 2015 at 6:27 pm
Whenever someone or something attempts to stop someone from speaking out an opinion I usually assume it's because it's a hard truth. Maybe this isn't true for everything (example - Holocaust denial laws) but for many things it is (I.e. I can't criticize the religion of peace because the government knows it isn't peaceful)
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RE: Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking
March 31, 2015 at 6:38 pm
(March 31, 2015 at 5:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote: This is an old story. Yes they did try, but she still spoke. And the objectors are too fucking stupid to understand she is totally for women's rights.

That's because most of the radical feminists who pull this kind of crap aren't for women's rights, they're just ardent man haters.
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RE: Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking
March 31, 2015 at 6:48 pm
(March 31, 2015 at 6:38 pm)Cephus Wrote:
(March 31, 2015 at 5:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote: This is an old story. Yes they did try, but she still spoke. And the objectors are too fucking stupid to understand she is totally for women's rights.

That's because most of the radical feminists who pull this kind of crap aren't for women's rights, they're just ardent man haters.

So far I haven't seen many of these mythical man hating radical feminists. I see stupid a pc overreaction 
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RE: Atheists and Feminists at Yale also tried to get Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking
March 31, 2015 at 6:50 pm
I love Ayaan Hirsi Ali but when she goes on Sean Hannity's show to promote her work or says that Netanyahu deserves a Noble Peace Prize, she kind of justifies the picture the PC left paints of her.
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