Loudmouth,

Bullies attack anyone they perceive as vulnerable....they always have done.

The End.

P, if you don't believe me, listen to the gay activist that started the safe schools program:

"Gay rights activist Rob Mitchell — who was sacked from his Victorian government advisory role in 2014, arguing that he lost his job because he was too ­publicly critical of the former Napthine government for its ­inaction on tackling homophobia in schools — now believes Safe Schools has gone too far.

“They are completely out of control,’’.

The Ballarat farmer was frustrated while on the government advisory committee with the slow rollout of Safe Schools and other anti-homophobia programs and was pushing for more resources and government initi­atives. He said he threatened to make a bumper sticker saying that his boss — then ministerial advisory committee chairwoman Ruth McNair — was undermining the health of young people.

“The tragedy in all this is: when I was agitating for money to be put in anti-homophobia programs, the Safe Schools ­Coalition was what I would call a vanilla anti-homophobia program,’’ he said. “It seems to have been transformed into this queer theory sort of academic-driven lot of rubbish. As part of that process, they have lost their core constituency, which is parents of school kids. It has been completely hijacked, been derailed.”

Well looky here...

"La Trobe University withdraws allegations against Safe Schools co-founder Roz Ward"

"La Trobe University has withdrawn all allegations of misconduct against controversial academic Roz Ward and reinstated the Safe Schools co-founder, effective immediately."

"The university's backflip came just hours after it received a threatening legal letter from Maurice Blackburn Lawyers. The firm's employment law expert Josh Bornstein argued that suspending someone over a private Facebook post was "unlawful" and contravened the university's enterprise agreement, the Fair Work Act and Victoria's Equal Opportunity Act.

He said the law firm would commence legal proceedings in the Federal Court if the university failed to meet these demands by 10am on Monday.

The university's decision to suspend Ms Ward prompted a public backlash, with students, the National Tertiary Education Union and fellow academics all condemning its actions. They claimed that the university's actions were undemocratic and went against the ideals of free speech.

Professor Dewar said that he was now of the opinion that the university should change course.

"The allegations against Ms Ward and her suspension will be withdrawn," he said.

"The university does not accept that it has acted unlawfully."

Professor Dewar said the university had suspended Ms Ward not because her views were political. but because they were made at a time when there was intense scrutiny of the Safe Schools program, which is closely associated with the university."

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/latrobe-university-withdraws-allegations-against-safe-schools-cofounder-roz-ward-20160603-gpbc1t.html#ixzz4AVsCtMyk

You're right, Poirot, people shouldn't be sacked for just being stupid and infantile. As mentioned above a few times, and stressed by a variety of commentators (strangely, most from the Right), such as the IPA, Andrew Bolt, and various others in The Australian, M. Ward shouldn't have been sacked for her/his/its comments about the flag, she/he/it has an equal right to express h/h/I views, and equally, most certainly should be criticised for ihh views on other, more important issues.

I'm glad that you are now defending freedom of speech in a democracy such as Australia's. Everybody should be free to express themselves, short of incitement to violence of course, and everybody else should be equally free to criticise their viewpoint - and be criticised in turn (I think Marx would have called this something like 'transcending the dialectic'): freedom of expression, freedom to criticise - that's how we learn from each other. I'm glad you see it that way too.

Cheers,

Joe

Loudmouth,

I'm sure if you really really put your mind to it - one day you'll be able to write a post that isn't 100% sarcasm.

Cheers....

No, Poirot, I meant every word of it. If you perceive common sense and agreement as 'sarcasm', that's really your problem. Dob me in to Murdoch Uni: I won't pay the fine, I'll do the time.

And even if it was no more than cheap sarcasm, so what ? Issues still have to be discussed, argued, criticised. They don't get buried by some dummy-spit. Jesus, there was a time when we would have been prepared to mount the barricades and risk death. Now poor little darlings dissolve in a puddle, at 'sarcasm'. Grow a pair, Poirot, show us your gender fluidity.

Or, of course, just for a change, you could stick to the issues :)

Joe