- Charles Lewis: Intolerance triumphs on Canadian campuses
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At the University of Guelph, a student council decides an anti-abortion group is unfair to women so they are banned. Queen's University hires "dialogue facilitators" because they are unsure that the right kinds of conversation are taking place among students. At Carleton University, some students decide that cystic fibrosis is too white a disease so it is unworthy of charitable funding.
Critics charge that all these recent incidents are just the latest signs of the erosion of free speech at Canadian universities.
"I think that on many university campuses they think that if they have to decide between free speech and equality they will choose equality in the end," said Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, a lawyer with the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. "And the problem is that dichotomy is a false one to start with because freedom of expression and equality go hand in hand. Disadvantaged groups have used their freedom of expression to get their voice heard. They've used freedom of speech to show injustice when it's out there to persuade public opinion. And that's how we've made the advances that we have."
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Let The Facts Speak For Themselves
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- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.
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