Brunel University students stage walkout against Katie Hopkins

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...columnist.html

Brunel University students stage walkout against Katie Hopkins

The controversial star had been invited to take part in a debate Brunel University on the subject of welfare

A group of students at Brunel University staged a walkout during a debate this week in protest against Katie Hopkins' appearance as a guest speaker. Arch-controversialist Hopkins had been invited to debate the question: "Does the welfare state have a place in modern society?"

The event had been organised as part of the University's 50th anniversary celebrations. As Hopkins delivered her opening comments, a number of students rose to their feet and turned their backs. The debate chair then addressed the protestors, saying: "People have made their views very clear, and we have noted that. We invite you to return to your seats. If you choose to leave, that's your prerogative."

Several students then walked out of the lecture, as the video shows. Ali Milani, president of Brunel Students' Union, wrote: "I stand in full solidarity with those that chose to partake in the action, respectfully voicing their discontent. They have made me proud to be their representative."

"The inclusion of Ms Hopkins has been met with wide spread outcry from the student body and the Students’ Union. It is important to note that the conversation at no point has been about banning Ms Hopkins from speaking on campus, or denying her right to speak."

"It is instead about saying it is distasteful and incongruous for our University, as part of a 50th celebration event, to provide a platform to someone who adds nothing to the intellectual or academic discourse; and an individual who publicly utters such overtly bigoted views.

Stupid university crybaby students yet again.

You know when it's brave and actually inspiring to walkout when somebody is speaking? When you're sat in front of a dictator making a speech or a military junta: an action which you may have seen with the picture of the man refusing the Nazi salute at a National Socialist Rally in 1930s Germany. Or if you stood in front of a tank in Tianaman Square. That's bravery. But planning a walkout in a university debate because you don't like the opinions one side of the debate has? Truly pathetic.

70 years ago people at university age were being gunned down in battlefields. Today the same age group need 'safe spaces' because 'offensive waycist'.

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Wouldn't it have been easier to just not go

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Wouldn't it have been easier to just not go

Indeed. But one might ask why they are in university in the first place if they're not interested in other opinions and viewpoints.

That's like kinda the point in university. Or was.