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Freedom to think : Comments

By Steven Schwartz, published 14/1/2022

Universities face a fatal choice. They can acquiesce to the demands of censorious staff and students or reject intolerance and bullying.

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Andras,

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.
Posted by shadowminister, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 11:14:35 AM
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'in the papers' with an axe to grind in support of radical right and antipathy towards anyone educated, for electoral purposes.
Posted by Andras Smith, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 10:13:37 PM
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radical right and antipathy towards anyone educated
Andras Smith,
Are false assertions such as the above really the only argument half-baked intellectuals have to fall back on ?
It's nothing short of lying.
Posted by individual, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 12:09:22 PM
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