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Related: About this forumImage of Flying Spaghetti Monster banned from London South Bank University for offending religion
The offending poster was put up at London South Bank University last week by non-religious students from the South Bank Atheist Society, only for it to be reportedly removed by student union officials for being religiously offensive.
Initially the secular student society reported it was told that Adams genitals were the issue before union officials allegedly told them the posters caused religious offences and their stall was banned from the start-of-term student event.
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Barbara Ahland, the president of London South Bank Universitys student union, said: The Students Union has been made aware of an alleged incident that took place at the Refreshers Fayre last week. We are taking the allegation very seriously and an investigation is taking place.
A spokesperson for the University said it hosts student societies on campus with a wide range of viewpoints and works to achieve an inclusive and supportive environment for all of our students.
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/free-speech-outcry-as-images-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-are-banned-from-london-south-bank-university-for-offending-religious-people-9119958.html
Initially the secular student society reported it was told that Adams genitals were the issue before union officials allegedly told them the posters caused religious offences and their stall was banned from the start-of-term student event.
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Barbara Ahland, the president of London South Bank Universitys student union, said: The Students Union has been made aware of an alleged incident that took place at the Refreshers Fayre last week. We are taking the allegation very seriously and an investigation is taking place.
A spokesperson for the University said it hosts student societies on campus with a wide range of viewpoints and works to achieve an inclusive and supportive environment for all of our students.
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/free-speech-outcry-as-images-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-are-banned-from-london-south-bank-university-for-offending-religious-people-9119958.html
I hope the 'allegation' is that some humourless jobsworth hasn't the faintest idea of civil liberties and shouldn't be left in charge of a lemonade stand, let alone a social event in a university; and that the society is owed a big apology for being forced out of the fair.
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Image of Flying Spaghetti Monster banned from London South Bank University for offending religion (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2014
OP
Will references to Flying Spaghetti Monster be expunged from Philosophy texts?
Brettongarcia
Feb 2014
#2
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)1. The uni spokesperson needs
to check the definitions of "inclusive and supportive", I think. They are clearly confused about what that means.
Brettongarcia
(2,262 posts)2. Will references to Flying Spaghetti Monster be expunged from Philosophy texts?
Or will those texts be burned?
cbayer
(146,218 posts)3. Ridiculous, but maybe it will bring the issue to the front burner
and get some clarity and resolution.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)4. k&r for exposure. n/t
-Laelth
Feral Child
(2,086 posts)5. K&R n/t
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)6. I say leave it up. It is edgy and insulting in ways but I say leave it up.
WovenGems
(776 posts)7. OOPS!
Goofs don't realize that when they pick on someone they just garnered the picked-on a mass of sympathy votes.
rug
(82,333 posts)8. Imbecility is not the answer to juvenilia.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)9. Great point!
edhopper
(33,651 posts)14. or perhaps it is
but who was imbecilic and who was juvenile?
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)10. Maybe it was because the layout was so bad.
Shame.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,405 posts)11. I'd consider a ban on capital 'I's with an dot on them (nt)
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)12. I think someone's Grandma should be replaced
Maybe try using a program other than MS Word.
Because there's no excuse for bad graphics.
LeftishBrit
(41,212 posts)13. How ridiculous.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)15. I just knew it. Now we are being persecuted.