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As the world’s most powerful fascist regime, one would expect China to encounter great difficulties spreading its influence on liberal Australian university campuses, the student bodies of which are hypersensitive to right-wing teaching or teachers.
In the case of the U.S., much law and policy in higher education is a state matter and for that reason chapters make even more sense.
Like any significant historical event, this gender revolution has multiple causes.
The rise of social media means that a limited number of academics, industry bodies or professional groups can promote almost any agenda, however obtuse, gain slightly wider support online, and create the appearance of significant authoritative status.
The central point of gender self-ID is that you are taking someone to be a woman or a man solely on the basis of what they claim
Hate crime now appears as a political crime, an outrage against social justice. There is a good case for saying that actual incidents of genuine hate crime should be seen in this way.
In a vein similar to Orwell’s lexicology of apologetics, criminological theory may help inform an understanding of how speech is used in defense of the indefensible at another level of analysis—that of rhetorical strategies.
But that’s the thing about freedom of speech: you tend not to notice it being curtailed until it’s your speech that’s being restricted.
Antifa movements have sprung up in a variety of countries, often opposing Nazis and Nazi sympathizers while also promoting general far-left politics of the Marxist and communist variety.
The Antifa thugs who attacked Quillette editor and photojournalist Andy Ngo in Portland yesterday did not quite manage to crack his skull.
The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.
The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.
Dr Phyllis Chesler has never been afraid to be unpopular.
Essays attacking the left- or right-wing bias of this or that media outlet are, of course, old hat in my business.
They threaten the businesses and livelihoods and professional reputations of good people struggling to navigate a dense web of ideological trip-wires.