interestrateripoff Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Extremist groups must be allowed to preach on British campuses, new Oxford vice chancellor says Exclusive: Louise Richardson argues against "banning free speech" and says controversial Cecil Rhodes statue should stay I wonder how supportive she would be of Nazi's preaching on the campus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shindigger Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Another one for Pig to comment on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Preach all you like. Nobody has to listen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Sounds like someone who mistakenly thinks that free speech means providing everyone with a soapbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Loo Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 jaw jaw, not war war Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Universities do that! They invite the unpopular or outrageous, so people can be outraged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steppenpig Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 if they're not illegal organisations they can preach. if they're inciting violence, they can be arrested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voldemort Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Good. I much prefer free speech and critical thinking to censorship and political correctness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Good. I much prefer free speech and critical thinking to censorship and political correctness. No. I much prefer free speech that will be videod by someone who does not wear jimjams, and than can be given to poilce so they can be either arrested or chucked out and mae to go back to the cr.phole they came from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
libspero Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Preach all you like. Nobody has to listen. Good. I much prefer free speech and critical thinking to censorship and political correctness. Sometimes this forum restores my faith in humanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecrashingisles Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Did they sack the proof-readers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 "Extremist groups". Presumably they don't mean the likes of ISS and those with links to it and all the others - or do they? During World War 2 the enemy (that's what they call them isn't it - in fact France of the eu has declared war on them) wasn't allowed a voice at Oxford or anywhere else on home soil (apparently). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XswampyX Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wherebee Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 I wonder if a single Journalist has asked this idiot whether that means that anti-immigration and anti-Islam speakers will be welcomed? Or is this, as I suspect, very much a one way street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Sometimes this forum restores my faith in humanity Ah ha! I agree to disagree with so many of my good friends on many subjects. We disagree, but still go to the pub together, and don't hit each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turned Out Nice Again Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 shouting down campus speakers and breaking up their meetings is actually free-speech according to these air-heads: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 What gets my goat, is the idea that "free speech" is OK for this lot, but not for them over there. Have they lost the plot? "Pretending to agree on everything" is madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XswampyX Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 What gets my goat, is the idea that "free speech" is OK for this lot, but not for them over there. Have they lost the plot? "Pretending to agree on everything" is madness. Have to add.... They wan't to ban/shout down others not because the banned person will incite hatred or violence in their own supporters, but because they will have to hear something they don't like and then they themselves will become hateful and enact violence. It's ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 There's something "1984" about not being able to hear a speaker you will disagree with. If I hear one, I am not protesting and shouting BTW. Just not agreeing. You are never righter by being louder. If you are never allowed to hear them, maybe you will not know they are there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 So, extremist groups are ok but Germaine Greer is not ? GG is a sometimes amusing Australian Granny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingpoor Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 If this goes ahead it should be open to all speakers from all views. (except banned organisations) The Stage should be secured with high security to prevent access by the members of the audience. And anyone attempting to shout down the speaker should be ejected imeadiatley. And a Police presence in case speech turns to incitement to violence. But i expect there is no intention of it being open to all speakers just the ones that are favoured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knock out johnny Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 If this goes ahead it should be open to all speakers from all views. (except banned organisations) The Stage should be secured with high security to prevent access by the members of the audience. And anyone attempting to shout down the speaker should be ejected imeadiatley. And a Police presence in case speech turns to incitement to violence. But i expect there is no intention of it being open to all speakers just the ones that are favoured. Blair and Alistair Campbell will be very proud of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Mr Wolfgang for Labour Leader! He seems to have what they are lacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turned Out Nice Again Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 If this goes ahead it should be open to all speakers from all views. (except banned organisations) The Stage should be secured with high security to prevent access by the members of the audience. And anyone attempting to shout down the speaker should be ejected imeadiatley. And a Police presence in case speech turns to incitement to violence. But i expect there is no intention of it being open to all speakers just the ones that are favoured. David Irving came to speak at my Student Union a couple of years after he'd published "Hitler's War" claiming Der Fuhrer was ignorant of the WWII genocide of Jews. I wanted to hear his arguments but was impeded by a shrill Leftie rent-a-mob. It was perhaps my first real introduction to this brand of PC thuggery. Thankfully, the talk went ahead and was broadcast by Union TV the next day on all the tellies in the refectory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 They shouldn't be stopped from saying what they want, but no-one else should be stopped for calling them lunatic nutcases for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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