>Why is it wrong for a group of people to have a place they can go to talk to their peers? White men have had these for centuries--they call them private clubs.
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>What kind of world do you live in? I'm so glad that I don't live in it - it would be too depressing.
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>I am not sitting in judgment of young people who are so fragile that they need to be protected from any kind of speech that disagrees with or challenges their current belief system. I always thought that listening to ideas that are different from mine helped to expand my horizons and make me a better person. I can never learn anything if I am never exposed to new ideas.

You're missing the whole point. They don't want to protected from hearing new ideas. They want an opportunity to have a place where they can relax and let their hair down, so to speak.

Tamar