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LGBT activists: Soviet camps were ‘compassionate’ means of ‘re-education.’ Send bigots there

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A homosexual student group at Goldsmiths, University of London, is under fire for a series of tweets defending the idea of sending dissenters to “gulags” for forced re-education. The exchange began during a Twitter debate over “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” (TERFs), feminists who refuse to recognize men who “identify” as female to be "women." The group LGBTQ+ Goldsmiths had called for targeting feminist academics they considered to be TERFs, the  Daily Telegraph   reports . “The ideas of TERFS and anti-trans bigots literally *kill* and must be eradicated through re-education,” LGBTQ+ Goldsmiths claimed, then threatened to “arrange to send [critics of their position] to the gulag.” (Report continues below tweets) The original Twitter thread from Goldsmith LGBTQ+, since removed. ARCHIVE.TODAY Invoking the gulags –  notorious prison camps  instituted by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, in which countless prisoners died of execution, starvation, disease...