Professor William McNally recently published a response to Deborah MacLatchy’s “better speech” missive:
Key to this notion of “better speech,” according to MacLatchy’s piece, is that “we can confront controversial views with intellectually rigorous and constructive dialogue.” Protests have not been rigorous or constructive, yet this administration indulges them. On campus in March, a controversial speaker was cancelled because the fire alarm was pulled, a violation of the student code of conduct that the University failed to enforce. It has yet to publicly condemn the act. More worryingly, the university did nothing about the presence of masked ANTIFA thugs at the protest. Bill C-309 prevents persons from concealing their identity during unlawful assemblies. By not publicly condemning those tactics, the university privileges social justice activism over free speech.
Antifa = the modern “progressive” version of the Nazi black shirts.
They are inclusive – they’ll beat up any and everyone.
Hopefully the enrollment at this socialist school drops.
“Bill C-309 prevents persons from concealing their identity during unlawful assemblies.” – So unlawful assemblies are good as long as you don’t cover your face?
This mess belongs to MacLatchy; she should have fallen on her sword and resigned “pour encourager les autres”.
As Rex Murphy has observed regarding her ramblings on this issue: “Free speech is not better speech. It is the best speech.”
The attitude from Wilfrid Laurier U from the top down is that ‘we should be left alone to nurture leftist progressive nihilism as we (and the rabid student body activists) see fit and our only mistake in the whole Lindsay Shepherd affair was getting caught taking the verbal rubber hose to her’. The obfuscation that followed was simply spin aimed at masking their true “feelings”. They have as much fealty to free speech as they do to capitalism.
MacLatchy likely figures she can have her cake and eat it too — that is, to allow both free speech and to make the campus a space safe from what progressives view as hateful thoughts.
But she can’t. The two concepts are incompatible and she will have to choose.
That choice was made ages ago. Free speech lost.
What needs to happen now is an inexorable tide of students who won’t be shushed by the hall monitors.
So, the woman they put in charge of a ‘higher learning’ institution is completely incapable of learning, herself. She is quite clearly fully dedicated to pushing an ideology on her students, not to debating or explaining it’s merits, pitfalls or even alternatives, but forcing it down their throats.
These people are not educating our youth, their concentration is on indoctrinating them to be loyal little leftards.
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Yes you get my Cigar!…..But check out the French Revolution and apply those problems & solutions…..It was Napoleon who emerged & the principle’s of todays Republic Democracies… My point is that a little Nudging is not an option
Thank You Twitter for allowing this exposure to be presented. Sweden has completely fallen under the decades of Progressive subversion since the Fifties. POTUS #45 is the Reason North America will not succumb.
Speaking of authoritarian control over speech…does anyone at that joke of a university recall Tyndale’s Attempts to further free speech and biblical interpretatation via interpreting the bible in English and doing so in the the fascist face of the Holy Roman Empire and the anti free speech aristocracy enforced by Thomas More, the quisling sheep fuck in thrall to Henry and all that shite. If the president of that joke of a university can parse what I just drunkenly said, then ther May be hope, but I seriously doubt it…
My, someone is grumpy. Not had your coffee yet?
“privileges” is not a verb. “…the university privileges social justice activism over free speech.” This is not a sentence.
It seems like a small thing, but becoming extremely common in academics the last 20 years. “Scapegoat” is another popular academic bit of foolishness. Scapegoat is a noun. “Scapegoating” is not a word, but you read it literally all the time in 1990s ivory tower babble.
A pox upon the lot of them. And get off my lawn!
“Privilege” has been a verb in English since the 14th Century. Although it might represent trendy cant, “The university privileges social justice activism over free speech.” is still a sentence.
And nothing stops “scapegoat” or most any other noun being transformed into a verb either.
That’s just the way the language works.