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Some Toronto students offered Free Palestine and Free Tibet as yearbook quotes. The school removed quotes from the entire Grade 12 (www.thestar.com)

submitted 1 day ago by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/ontario@lemmy.ca

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[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm having trouble opening the article without popups but I'd be interested to hear what the school says to justify the censorship, if they even take responsibility at all

[+] solsangraal@lemmy.zip -10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

in case anyone is living under the mistaken assumption that you should be free to express yourself

to be fair, the school just doesn't want to deal with controversy. they would do the same thing if more than a few people submitted pro-nazi crap as their quote.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fuck off with this bullshit.

Showing support for people who are being genocided is not politics, it's human.

It is bullshit right wing false equivalency nonsense that tries to convince everyone that everything is politics and thus everything is subjective and equal.

It's not. There are very clear core human values and it's not hard to support them. People who call that politics tend to be evil.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if you think any school is going to not do the "politically safe" thing for themselves, then i don't know what to tell you

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

It was once the "politically safe" thing to give up jewish people to the nazi authorities.