On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 12:09:18PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 04:27:32PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
“Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37875695 Toronto professor Jordan Peterson takes on gender-neutral pronouns By Jessica Murphy BBC News, Toronto, 4 November 2016
Peterson speaks so clearly that just about anyone with the capacity to listen ought be able to hear.
Free speech is one of the 4 or 5 fundamental, essential, foundational liberties, and one can find it difficult to put forth a compelling position to those presently entrenched in their hate speech.
Peterson does so readily, and clearly - in the following from about 52:00.
Enjoy,
Jordan Peterson _ Full Address and Q&A _ Oxford Union https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZMIbo_DxJk
In the USA today free speech is championed by the conservatives and certainly not the far left Marxist loonies. Admittedly everyone "right" of "far left Marxist loonies" tends to be grouped as 'right wing' these days. Conservatives Win Free Speech Fight Against UMass-Amherst https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-10/conservatives-win-free-speech-figh... Authored by Zachary Petrizzo via Campus Reform, The University of Massachusetts-Amherst has agreed to lift restrictions on the location and duration of speech, ending a legal fight with conservative students. As previously reported by Campus Reform, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) objected to a provision of the school’s land use policy, which stipulated that “outdoor speeches and rallies during class hours may be held only on the -west side (main entrance) of the Student Union Building, and shall be limited to one (1) hour in length, from noon to 1:00 P.M.” The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a legal group representing YAL in court, announced the policy change in a press release late last month, noting that the lawsuit has been dropped in light of the development. “In response to a student group’s lawsuit, University of Massachusetts Amherst has eliminated its highly restrictive speech policy that limited all ‘speeches and rallies’ to less than one percent of campus and only between noon and 1 p.m. each day,” ADF wrote. …