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When universities forgot how to say no : Comments

By Steven Schwartz, published 9/2/2026

Academic freedom is inseparable from professional responsibility.

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Institutions of the brain dead…Albanese is a classic example. Contorted by Qatarie money, money, money, sidelined from reality, and churning out fodder for the Islamic cause.
Sack universities and burn their books.
Posted by diver dan, Monday, 9 February 2026 7:10:22 AM
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Nuremberg Dan,

"Sack universities and burn their books." Haven't had a decent book burning since, when was it, 10th May 1933.

The far right always view academia with suspicion, it challenges their notions of social order, and that can't be tolerated in their ideal world.

"When academics recycle century-old conspiracy theories about Jewish power and influence, they are not exercising academic freedom. They are failing to distinguish legitimate political critique from antisemitic thinking that has no place in scholarly discourse." When has that rubbish been mainstream academic thinking? Not in my lifetime. The author, had he lived in another age, would have been totally outraged with the heresy of some academics, who said the earth was round, and not flat. I'm sure he would have joined the chorus calling for their immediate destruction!
Posted by Paul1405, Monday, 9 February 2026 8:47:57 AM
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Among the worst offenders are Australian "National" University and University of Canberra.

ANU is like an extra federal department, propagandising for all it's worth, for open-borders net-zero. No lie is too big for them.

UC has just released a book on Albanese's First Term, which consists of 30-plus academics and "stakeholders", all running the same line. No contrary opinions get a guernsey.
Posted by Steve S, Monday, 9 February 2026 9:03:18 AM
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Steve come down to earth.

The Canberra book is part of a series of the long-running Australian Commonwealth Administration publications. It is edited by the hugly acclaimed journalist, the 81 year old Michelle Grattan, look at her CV, hardly a raving commie as you of the extreme right like to categorise anyone with an opinion that doesn't gel with your world view.
Posted by Paul1405, Monday, 9 February 2026 9:24:01 AM
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Bonger 1405, the Koala Kid.

Pinochet was the efficient expert at university crowd control. It was a regular event for bodies to wash up on the Chilean coast after his thinning out processes necessitated the manual ejection of excess freight over the Pacific at three thousand feet.

I’m more excited at the prospect of demolishing universities following the book burning ceremonies: That has a sophistication to it.
Posted by diver dan, Monday, 9 February 2026 12:11:11 PM
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Whether or not this article provokes a lot of written debate, it certainly invokes the need to think about what it advises.
Posted by Ipso Fatso, Monday, 9 February 2026 12:33:05 PM
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