Europe's New Academic Fascism

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Gatestone Institute

Giulio Meotti
February 23, 2020

Minority groups claim "safe spaces", but the ones who really need safe spaces are those who disgree with the reigning orthodoxy.

An appeal by some French intellectuals, including many Muslim thinkers such as Boualem Sansal and Zineb el Rhazoui, criticized this "intellectual terrorism."

Free expression is not needed for "politically correct" or sedative speech, but it is the only protection the minority has from the tyranny of the majority.

"[T]he freedom of Speech may be taken away — and, dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." — US President George Washington, 1783.

The European university -- which should be the home of open pluralism, debate, research and thought -- has instead become the paradise of intellectual sectarianism and terror. This new radicalism will reinforce not only political correctness, but also submission to coercion in the West.

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