socialmedian: Letters: Emma Thompson should apologise

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Source: The Guardian

Nov 09, 2009

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Contrary to Emma Thompson's scandalous association between Exeter and the BNP (BNP would love it here, actor tells students, 7 November), we know that the university is not racist. Not only is Exeter an especially welcoming place, but why should we feel guilty for belonging to a community perhaps more representative of the country at large than metropolitan London? Not only does the university have an exceptionally diverse student body, with students from over 120 countries, but to actively criticise it for its "whiteness" is ignorant of its location and offensive to its population. Diversity and integration are not numbers games based on arbitrary quotas.

Many students struggle to adapt to university life, but more often than not it is your perspective that has to change. It's just not credible for Tindyebwa Agaba and his adoptive mother to associate the Exeter student body with neo-fascist views at a time when fear of a resurgent BNP is so heightened. Offence is an unwelcome fact of life – that is not what we object to. What is so objectionable is the pure i

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