...left wing anarchists whose vision of Freedom Of Expression is 180 degrees from the vision of most persons in a democracy. Waterloo, York, Calgary, Ryerson, etc. etc. etc.
Ryerson University Public Affairs Department: 2008-09 Gaza War was a “massacre”
Look what just landed in Canadian journalists’ inboxes, from the same university that provides gainful employment to Jennifer Peto and Judy Rebick
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:41:41 -0600
Subject: Ryerson Faculty Expert available to speak on Gaza Massacre anniversary
Good Morning, The following Ryerson University faculty member is available to speak on the second year anniversary of the Gaza Massacre:
Alan Sears
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology Ryerson University 416-979-5000
Looking for other experts to round out your new stories? Please visit Ryerson’s online faculty experts guide at: www.ryerson.ca/news/media/facultyexperts
What a great way to “round out” a story … with a sound bite from an Israel Apartheid Week activist who apparently thinks that Israel’s effort to suppress rocket fire against its towns constitutes a “massacre.”
Showing posts with label Leftist Interpretation Of Freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leftist Interpretation Of Freedom. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Free Speech...Leftist Version
George Jonas: Free speech? Depends. What do you want to say?
If a mob disrupted a pro-choice speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the protesters would be removed. If a mob disrupted a pro-life speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the speech would be cancelled.
One kind of speech is free in Canada; another kind isn’t. Speech broadly characterized as “left-wing” a.k.a. “progressive” — e.g., pro-choice, anti-Israeli, anti-capitalist — is protected even at its extreme. Speech broadly characterized as “right-wing” a.k.a. “reactionary” — pro-life, pro-Western, pro-Israel — isn’t protected, even when it’s moderate. Read More »
If a mob disrupted a pro-choice speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the protesters would be removed. If a mob disrupted a pro-life speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the speech would be cancelled.
One kind of speech is free in Canada; another kind isn’t. Speech broadly characterized as “left-wing” a.k.a. “progressive” — e.g., pro-choice, anti-Israeli, anti-capitalist — is protected even at its extreme. Speech broadly characterized as “right-wing” a.k.a. “reactionary” — pro-life, pro-Western, pro-Israel — isn’t protected, even when it’s moderate. Read More »
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Hells Of Higher Learning...
'Progressive' intolerance in action
Rex Murphy: The University of Waterloo is inadequately and belatedly trying to make up for the shabby treatment afforded Christie Blatchford at the renowned institution
Heavy-handed university presidents are the problem
By EZRA LEVANT, QMI Agency
What is it with university presidents threatening to sic the police on their critics?
Carleton anti-abortion club to sue over ban
The lawyer for an anti-abortion group just decertified at Carleton University said Friday he will take the school’s student association to court unless the ban is reversed
David Frum: York University, where the rules change based on who’s speaking
York University’s reception of George Galloway — and the Toronto-area university’s legal threats against Galloway protesters — reminded me of an old joke from the Jim Crow American South.
A line of white men are waiting to cast their votes. The polling officer presents each white man with an elementary school reader and asks him to read a line aloud. The white men sound out, “the cat is fat,” “the mice are nice,” and so on. The polling officer congratulates them for passing the literacy test. At last, an old black farmer steps forward. The polling officer pulls out a medical school text book on diseases of the esophagus and points the farmer to the most obscure passage. “What’s it say here?” The farmer looks at the dense type and answers sadly, “It says this old man ain’t voting today.”
The point of the story is that institutions sometimes have two sets of rules. The institution may say, “All literate men may vote.” But the institution actually practises the rule, “Only white men may vote.” Read More »
Rex Murphy: The University of Waterloo is inadequately and belatedly trying to make up for the shabby treatment afforded Christie Blatchford at the renowned institution
Heavy-handed university presidents are the problem
By EZRA LEVANT, QMI Agency
What is it with university presidents threatening to sic the police on their critics?
Carleton anti-abortion club to sue over ban
The lawyer for an anti-abortion group just decertified at Carleton University said Friday he will take the school’s student association to court unless the ban is reversed
David Frum: York University, where the rules change based on who’s speaking
York University’s reception of George Galloway — and the Toronto-area university’s legal threats against Galloway protesters — reminded me of an old joke from the Jim Crow American South.
A line of white men are waiting to cast their votes. The polling officer presents each white man with an elementary school reader and asks him to read a line aloud. The white men sound out, “the cat is fat,” “the mice are nice,” and so on. The polling officer congratulates them for passing the literacy test. At last, an old black farmer steps forward. The polling officer pulls out a medical school text book on diseases of the esophagus and points the farmer to the most obscure passage. “What’s it say here?” The farmer looks at the dense type and answers sadly, “It says this old man ain’t voting today.”
The point of the story is that institutions sometimes have two sets of rules. The institution may say, “All literate men may vote.” But the institution actually practises the rule, “Only white men may vote.” Read More »
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Presented In A Manner Even Leftists Can Understand...
George Jonas: The Charter should defend individuals, not restrict universities
Here’s a tale of free speech. Sometimes it’s possible for a sign on the front lawn saying “I love life” to coexist peacefully with a neighbour’s sign saying “I love choice.” The neighbours may even nod to each other at the bus stop.
Things can get rocky when the choice-loving neighbour has more disposable income than the one who prefers life, and decides to erect a sign that blinks after sunset. Still, conflict isn’t inevitable. Unblinking neighbour can get a bank loan and make his own sign blink, or decide there’s more to life than blinking.
Things get more complicated when a municipality sets up a Blinking Sign Standards Enforcement Agency that makes unblinking neighbour fancy that blinking neighbour’s sign exceeds regulation height. Snitching requires no bank loan, but being forced to retain a local obfuscator who specializes in Blinking Lights Law does. Five thousand dollars later, when Commissioners Blinking, Winking and Nod decide that the impugned sign satisfies Section 2/-235 of the Signage and Sundry Act, there’s plenty of bad blood between neighbours. Read More »
Here’s a tale of free speech. Sometimes it’s possible for a sign on the front lawn saying “I love life” to coexist peacefully with a neighbour’s sign saying “I love choice.” The neighbours may even nod to each other at the bus stop.
Things can get rocky when the choice-loving neighbour has more disposable income than the one who prefers life, and decides to erect a sign that blinks after sunset. Still, conflict isn’t inevitable. Unblinking neighbour can get a bank loan and make his own sign blink, or decide there’s more to life than blinking.
Things get more complicated when a municipality sets up a Blinking Sign Standards Enforcement Agency that makes unblinking neighbour fancy that blinking neighbour’s sign exceeds regulation height. Snitching requires no bank loan, but being forced to retain a local obfuscator who specializes in Blinking Lights Law does. Five thousand dollars later, when Commissioners Blinking, Winking and Nod decide that the impugned sign satisfies Section 2/-235 of the Signage and Sundry Act, there’s plenty of bad blood between neighbours. Read More »
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