Thread has nothing to do with gays.
This is about a rector being choosen by Erdogan regime. Bypassing elections of the university. The university is Bogaziçi University, the best university in all of Turkey.
Regime lovers in this thread, tries everyday to show it something different then it is.
Bro, going past the twitter and social media hearsay and insinuations back and forth.....what is your view on there being no challenge (from student group) w.r.t letter and any other official statement put by the student group?
To me one can have valid cause/origin/cassus-belli for a transgression or over-reach by govt, politician, bureaucrat thug etc.
When you form the protest group against it, you initially feel having as man as possible adds the most weight, I can understand that.
But when members/leadership of the group put out letter with pro-separatist content, there must be calling out of this among the protest group that are against it. Silence means they are standing by it and/or condoning it.
Many a protest group has been corrupted like this across the world....by assuming it need to be as big as possible and stand by as collective for everything it transmutes into to try fan flames etc.
FLQ had its activities not too far from where I am sitting right now among student groups etc going back 50 years ago or more. There was sympathy to it from number of people that did not understand what it really wanted and how it wanted to go about it.
Thus many student protest in 60s and 70s that would start for whatever reason (against federal govt, other student groups, university affairs, social issues etc etc) would inevitably get FLQ and proxies to add to its number.
But after events of 1970:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis
...when FLQ clearly indicated what it is about and so brazenly, the important thing that happened is that whenever it tried to join such protests again (or issue statement on behalf of the collective protest).....Quebec laypeople (even those with some separatist or Quebec nationalist sentiments) always distanced from it, rejected it or condemned it (given the violence+terrorism FLQ used in 1970).
This is why Quebec party (For quebecer rights + their nationalism etc) the "BQ" have distanced and condemned FLQ tactics and terrorism...and this extends to the manner majority of quebecers handle issue if such pops up again in protests say today....they would call it out (I support Quebec rights/nationalism, but NOT the FLQ).
Thus dont you think its better for these students to condemn anything they do not stand by that is being put as their collective take on matter?....as if they do not voice it (or have some voiced this?...maybe you can tell me) it means they are implied to support it by silence IMO.
I would always rather have 50 people, with me that stand for everything of importance that I believe in....rather than simply join a group of 500 (in general counter-direction of the issue that has upset me etc) because it is bigger "on paper", especially if it is conflating issues and putting things in there I do not support at all. Such details should matter a lot I feel....as often there is just no time to learn what sticks and doesnt stick in broader support by doing number-moves over more quality+refined+direct honest way.
I can do this w.r.t India through its history as well....all sides of this kind of thing.....but that is very much longer topic and I think FLQ is a better summarised rejoined to what I am getting at here.
