Rex Murphy isn’t very impressed with Deborah MacLatchy’s recent op-ed:
The president of Wilfrid Laurier University recently published a statement on free speech at Laurier and in the academy generally. It was a sad effort.
She built a Giza-sized pyramid of clichés and virtue-speak about something she was pleased to call “better speech” — as opposed to that decayed old concept, hustled by the likes of John Stuart Mill, Voltaire, and the framers of the American Constitution, known as “free speech.”
Amid the vast waste of anodynes, platitudes and non-sequiturs, it was difficult to pick out a winner — the most tired, numb and vacant verbalism. But I struggled and chose, from her opening sentence, her claim that Laurier “has been at the centre of the campus free-speech conversation during the past year.”
Do read it in its entirety. Murphy’s dissection of MacLatchy’s tripe is brilliant.
“You often hear the cry ‘we need to have a conversation about race, some new species of sexuality, plastic straws, the fate of the puffin …’ spilling from the lips of people who very clearly do not wish to have any conversation at all about any of these topics.”
Thing is, the rest of us don’t need to have a conversation about race, sexuality or plastic straws. We’ve had it and come to an agreement that our children deserve better than to become the child bride of a Muslim savage or the sexual plaything of a pedophile.
We are more than ready to move on to a serious discussion about how to rid the world of those plagues for good.
This is not about Muslims…It is about your ignorance.. Its You ..it’s you! The SJW own your butt
How I loathe the LIE of leftists wanting a “conversation” about _ _ _ _…
Bullshit. What they want is a “conversion” to their sick, demented, “belief” and actions. Yeah, we need a “conversation” about black on black slaughter on the streets of ‘certain’ Chicago neighborhoods. Really? How does THAT “conversation” go? What’s the implied ‘give and take’ from that “conversation”? The bloods will stop murdering the crips if you give them a defined territory to sell their drugs? How about this “conversation” (made famous by Barrack Hussein Obama) … “knock it off”. There. I’ve had my “conversation” on the topic.
Stupid mushy-headed pseudo-intellectual closed-minded college officials.
“Do read it in its entirety. Murphy’s dissection of MacLatchy’s tripe is brilliant.”
*trying to puke quietly*
Nope.
“We need to have a conversation” is the white flag of the politically correct brigade.”
And then….
(I must halt here in needful digression: Why Steve Paikin, the Guy Fawkes of Canadian broadcasting, has not been jailed years ago for disturbing the slumbers of Ontarians with his wicked symposia on such intemperate subjects as Great Lakes catchments and the Zen of bike paths, reveals a great gap in the laws against public incitement and riot. Doug Ford, take note.)
Ugh, excuse me, nausea is setting in again.
https://youtu.be/5LeNjCa7eJM
Much better now. Much whiskey required!
Oh, Shiny?
Apparently Justin from Canada, sans Princess Rainbow Sparkles, has asked the U.K. and United Arab Emirates to intervene after Saudi Arabia puts a ban on commerce, and cancels grain purchase contracts…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/07/justin-from-canada-asks-for-help-in-saudi-dispute/
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1KS23G?__twitter_impression=true
MarcusZ1967, Niki has already told the UN to stick that crap where it doesn’t shine… Was Canada deaf ?
On the up side, would the President of Wilfred Laurier University now be qualified to teach courses in “Unspeakably Clueless” ?
If so, she might be able to make some sort of a living. Just in case she is replaced by someone with greater qualifications. Though, admittedly in today’s academia, finding such a candidate may be challenging.
The “we need to have a conversation” line reminds me of my last department head at the place where I used to teach.
If I had a good idea about something that might help the department, he would almost always answer: “We’ll talk about it.” The only thing was that we never did if he didn’t like my suggestion.
“We’ll talk about it” is simply waffle–it’s an academic’s way of saying “no” without actually speaking that word. It falsely holds out the possibility that a discussion will actually take place but there’s no commitment that it will actually occur.
The high school down the road.
Wilfred Laurier is a crap university. Never let your children go there. Total waste of rations.
Chris exactly. That should be the bottom line. So to speak.
Sadly, Canada has nothing akin to the Pulitzer for men and women of letters, such as Rex Murphy. At least he’s Catholic, making it easier to nominate him for sainthood for being one of a a tiny minority in Canada- A scribbler with an actual brain. He’s to wordsmithing what Wayne Gretzky was to puck handling.
I am sure that Murphy’s reference to Milton’s Areopagitica was lost on the vapid academics today, who no longer read dead white males.
Milton indeed would weep to see how his impassioned plea for freedom of speech, written in the mid 1600s for God’s sake!, is now considered an irrelevant artifact.
When I was in university, I had the good fortune to have professors who encouraged grappling with Milton and his outstanding works.
However, Paradise Lost….
Laurier “has been at the centre of the campus free-speech conversation during the past year.”
Yeah. You were. As an example of how free speech is under attack, why it’s being attacked, and why we need free speech now more than ever.
Basically you were the centre of the conversation – for all the wrong reasons.