Fuck yeah, this is my home town! Go go go, good job kids! (ht to @waxy for original post).

When I was in high school, a theatre student at the local university wanted to put on a production of Corpus Christi, in which Jesus was gay, and there were bomb threats and it went to court (see second link). I think it did eventually get staged.

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Kathleen Stock: Protests at Oxford Union as talk goes ahead
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Subject matter aside, surely university ( and actually education generally) should be about looking at alternative viewpoints and weighing up the evidence presented to form a point of view, this can change over time anyway.

If we were to give a talk on say the fediverse, we would cover a lot of ground about privacy but may have to be critical of what big tech is doing, as it is one of the reasons the fediverse was created as an alternative.

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