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Sunday, October 16, 2016

Controversy of the Pacifica Forum

In a series of recent events, The Pacifica fabrication has been brought to the solicitude of the public. This meeting place has been active for everyplace 10 years and has had no other complaints until now. With all the controversy, the capitulum of whether the Pacifica fabrication should be loudly to stay on campus has been on many peoples minds. One issue should non be grounds to supplant an established group from campus. The Pacifica Forum should continue to be allowed on campus because it promotes important controversial discussions. The Pacifica Forum debate blew up when a swastika was painted on the LGBTQTAs front door. Although the culprit for this act of abominate has not been established, many choose to unholy the Pacifica gathering. The reason this conclusion is haggard is because recently the forum has been inviting detest speech loudspeaker systems to come and chew up to the forum. One of these speakers includes a Neo-Nazi final solution denier. The quest ion of whether a speaker with such controversial views should be able to perform on campus is currently at debate. The Pacifica forum was started by Orval Etter in 1994 as a place where controversial ideas about war and peace treaty militarism and pacifism, violence and non-violence. The forum has stock the reputation that many of its members similarly harbor similar ideas to some of the speakers.\nAlthough the Pacifica Forum may affront many University of Oregon students and officials, the forum itself is not actually pause any rules. Bringing in multiple known hate speakers isnt necessarily a bad thing considering the beliefs of the meanspirited individuals arent usually discussed or analyzed. I personally picture the Pacifica Forum to be a positive campus influence because without the forum, issues homogeneous hate and neo-Nazism would be unattended entirely. Im not saying that the forum is a good thing in its entirety, but it has a follow of redeeming qualities that I happen upon far outweigh the detrimental qualities. The forum has recently b...

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