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By Steven Schwartz, published 14/1/2022Universities face a fatal choice. They can acquiesce to the demands of censorious staff and students or reject intolerance and bullying.
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There are plenty of cases in Aus, NZ etc in the papers where so-called liberals try to shut down free speech when facts collide with woke dogma. The issue where Garth Cooper challenged the decision by Auckland University to treat Maori myths as a "science" is recent and Garth Cooper is still at risk of losing his job.
As for Critical race theory (CRT), the uproar is not simply that it is taught at schools but that it is taught not as a concept but as a fact when it has no more rational basis than creationism and is itself profoundly racist.