Brown Students Shut Down Trans Activist’s Speech—Because Israel

[ericson00]

Earlier this month, a student group at Brown University launched a petition to pressure Janet Mock into canceling her scheduled lecture on the Providence, Rhode Island, campus.
One might assume this cohort was virulently homophobic or transphobic to discourage the transgender activist from serving as the keynote speaker selected by Moral Voices—a group whose mission for this academic year was to raise awareness about “violence against LGBTQ+ individuals and communities,” according to a statement by one of its co-chairwomen.
No, based on their petition’s aim, these students apparently believed it was better for Mock not to speak at all than to do so at an event connected to the Hillel chapter for the Ivy League college and the Rhode Island School of Design.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/25/brown-students-shut-down-trans-activist-s-speech-because-israel.html

disgusting. BTW, hows the LGBT community doing in any Muslim majority/plurality country on the face of the Earth?

At least the silent majority of Democrats see thru this crap.

[6chars]

1. coincidentally...

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/03/brown-university-investigating-anti-semitic-homophobic-graffiti/

Anti-Semitic and homophobic messages were written on the walls of a student dormitory at Brown University.

The vandalism discovered early Friday morning at the Providence, Rhode Island, school came days after the cancellation of an appearance by prominent African-American transgender activist Janet Mock at the Brown University Hillel after facing criticism for allegedly supporting the Jewish group’s “pinkwashing” of Israeli treatment of the Palestinians.

The graffiti discovered in the Marcy House student housing, written in black marker, read “Gay will die” and “Holocaust 2.0,” the Brown Daily Herald, a campus student newspaper, reported.

“One message was directly across from my dorm room, apparently reacting to the Hebrew writing and Mezuzah on my door,” wrote senior Sam R, a member of to Zeta Delta Xi, in an email to The Herald, which he also posted on

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.710117

[grossproffit]

3. Antisemitism and homophobia go hand in hand.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027711738

[King_David]

4. Yes they do...

[King_David]

2. It's disgusting

[Lithos]

5. Link please

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[King_David]

6. Here's one,

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/25/brown-students-shut-down-trans-activist-s-speech-because-israel.html

[Lithos]

7. Thanks

@ericson00 - can you please update the original post?

L-

[ericson00]

8. done

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