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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on December 19, 2015, 10:52:52 AM
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Politically correct universities 'are killing free speech'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/12059161/Politically-correct-universities-are-killing-free-speech.html
British universities have become too politically correct and are stifling free speech by banning anything that causes the least offence to anyone, a group of leading academics warns on Saturday.
A whole generation of students is being denied the “intellectual challenge of debating conflicting views†because self-censorship is turning campuses into over-sanitised “safe spacesâ€, they say.
Their intervention comes as an Oxford college considers removing a historic statue of Cecil Rhodes, one of its alumni and benefactors, because he is regarded as the founding father of apartheid in South Africa.
British universities are suffering from the PC Plague like in America. Universities are indoctrination factories. Why not call for the removal of Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela statue? Gandhi was a racist and hated Blacks. Mandela is a terrorist.
Mark Prisk, the Conservative MP in whose constituency Cecil Rhodes was born, said: “This rather narrow minded view of trying to shut down people’s opinions, even if we find them abhorrent, doesn’t remove the fact that they happened or that people held those opinions.â€
Ironically, the South African former Oriel student leading the campaign to remove the statue of Rhodes attended Oxford as a beneficiary of a scholarship funded by Rhodes’s legacy.
Ntokozo Qwabe, who set up the Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford campaign, is one of more than 8,000 foreign students who have been able to study at Oxford because of a Rhodes Scholarship, paid for by the Rhodes Trust, which was set up by Cecil Rhodes in his will.
The person who got the statue of Cecil Rhodes removed benefited from his will. Oh the irony! But wait, there is more.
Professors have complained recently that they are being bullied online by students who are easily offended by opposing views.
Those PC CommuNazis are crybullies.