Draggingtree Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 : BDS: CENSORSHIP DISGUISED AS JUSTICE JOANNA WILLIAMS / EDUCATION EDITOR /3 FEBRUARY 2016 31 COMMENTS Ahead of spiked’s conference ‘The New Intolerance on Campus’, taking place in London on 17 February, some of the speakers will kick off the discussion here on spiked. Here Joanna Williams outlines her opposition to the boycott brigade. When Louise Richardson became the first female vice chancellor of Oxford University she made headline news for her defence of universities as places where all ideas can be freely debated. Yet her comments, and later those of Oxford’s chancellor, Lord Patten, were newsworthy only because so few people from within the academy have had the nerve to tackle censorious students head on. Some academics no doubt see student politics as simply none of their business. Others agree with the students’ demands and espoused political causes to the extent that they lead by example in promoting censorship as the best way to deal with views considered objectionable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 and exposing their defence of indefensible violations of international law, Which international laws would that be? Anti-semitism = Bigotry = STUPIDITY...on steroids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 In reading through the comments (why do I do this?) some of these people are real pieces of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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