Snowflake Alert - Students demand a censor to stop 'insensitive' articles appearing in their university newspaper

Student union bosses at the University of Manchester have demanded articles by their student-run newspaper be vetted by a 'sensitivity reader'.

Sara Khan, the University of Manchester's student union's liberation and access officer, said that such an appointment would ensure funding for the publication in the future.

During the Students' Union Senate meeting on Thursday, she said the publication should ask people for their permission to be written about.

She explained that being written about could 'result in psychological distress, and puts people at risk of being harassed, especially women, who are particularly targeted with death and rape threats through social media,' The Tab reported.

There were many opposed to Ms Khan's view, including the paper's deputy editor Amy Wei who told The Sun: 'The introduction of a sensitivity reader infringes on The Mancunion’s independence, which is protected in the Student Union's by-laws.'


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-45717841

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6867617/Sara-Khan-Manchester-University-student-union-officer-demands-sensitivity-reader-Mancunian.html

It's actually quite unprofessional to write an article about someone without offering them the chance to be interviewed, or to go on the record as having no comment.

>THE Ben Reilly< wrote:It's actually quite unprofessional to write an article about someone without offering them the chance to be interviewed, or to go on the record as having no comment.

Really?

That is what you took from this?

She is being quoted

Not the fact they want to control what is printed and mollycoddle students based on their on extreme ambigious leftist views?

I actually posted the wrong link

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6867617/Sara-Khan-Manchester-University-student-union-officer-demands-sensitivity-reader-Mancunian.html

This is the same numpty that wanted to ban clapping

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-45717841

Seriously, these kinds of students being taught such crap by the left. Making them so fragile, is setting them up for failure in the future

Its clear this far lefty believes that people should not have the ability to read differing views. She wants to impose what people can read and censur what she believes they should not read