Re: Is “political correctness” destroying Canadians’ right to free speech?
Well said.I view the etymology of this term politically correct changing faster than we may even be able to keep up. As someone who is female, has c-PTSD, and is a part of the LGBTQ* community, it is...
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View ArticleRe: Universities should not be funding defamation suits
Rancourt had every opportunity to apologize for the racist/racially-charged insult, along with his mis-characterization of Prof. St. Lewis's report. I don't think she had much choice.
View ArticleRe: Shouldn’t the dentistry Facebook posters be punished?
This is not a problem for freedom of speech to address. It has to do with uttering threats: https://www.defencelaw.com/utt..., nb, "It is not necessary for the Crown to prove that the person uttering...
View ArticleRe: Shouldn’t the dentistry Facebook posters be punished?
So if someone threatened to murder you, or your family, but then they say it is only a joke, you will accept their right of freedom of speech right? After all, they are clearly not going to do it,...
View ArticleRe: Shouldn’t the dentistry Facebook posters be punished?
Without disagreeing entirely...Manners per se cannot be enforced, but good behaviour can, at least to an extent. And presumably good behaviours can become habitual. Whether they actually do or not is...
View ArticleRe: Universities should not be funding defamation suits
Canada's position of power are increasingly being taken over by Judeo-Supremacists who have bad intentions against Non-Jews. People should actively inform themselves about this. The Canada I see today...
View ArticleRe: Morality and Starvation – Dr. Joe Mendola, Sept. 24, 2009
But Mendola, as chairman of the philosophy program at UNL, is admitting students into the program, unfunded, simply to scam the student loan program. A goat could get admitted as into that program as...
View ArticleRe: Will deans now begin to speak candidly?
"... the processes by which deans have been hired worked to identify administrative careerists who support the idea of the managed university, and not independent thinkers committed to ideals of higher...
View ArticleRe: Universities should not be funding defamation suits
This is 2013. You'd think in 2013, freedom of expression or not, some people, some PEOPLE would have FINALLY understood that you shouldn't trifle with certain terms. You'd think that in 2013 when it NO...
View ArticleRe: Paying big to fix what isn’t broken
I completely agree with Mark Mercer's column with regard to the President's Council report. This report is in my view an overreaching and disappointing response by SMU. I believe the scenario of the...
View ArticleRe: Paying big to fix what isn’t broken
I think SMU got a little carried away living out one of its core values ... "concerns for a just and civil society." With all the publicity given to the Rehtaeh Parsons case it was just political...
View ArticleRe: “Hollaback! Ottawa”: Against incivility or against freedom of...
Oh look nobody cares. Probably because most people realize that there are messed up people everywhere; some of them might want to help them.
View ArticleRe: Liberal education requires freedom of expression
To censor, is to allow others to decide what you should and shouldn't know, based on the fears of the censor. It ultimately removes the responsibility from individuals to make their own decisions thus...
View ArticleRe: Liberal education requires freedom of expression
An excellent article. I would suggest however that the students' dislike of the argument is not necessarily rooted in their disinterest in the academic community. Rather is it is a desire to shape and...
View ArticleRe: Liberal education requires freedom of expression
"Much more troubling than my students’ easy acceptance of censorship in their lives is the indifference of deans, vice-presidents, and presidents to this acceptance, for their indifference will ensure...
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