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The greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself. In particular, it comes from the sheer volume and chaotic nature of that speech.
Threatening speech when it actually did not do so delegitimizes speech that epitomizes exactly the type of speech that is supposed to be protected.
To understand what happened at Wilfrid Laurier we need to understand what’s causing the gradual advance of leftwing ideology as a cultural phenomenon.
Sex and Gender Children Are Victims in the Latest Identity-Driven Culture War, Leading Article, The Economist The Alt-Right The Making of an American Nazi Luke O’Brien, The Atlantic Education Higher Education’s Deeper Sickness John M Ellis, Wall Street Journal The Power Rule – Review of ‘Free Speech on Campus’
So, how did the Dear Colleague Letter turn universities into star chambers? It lowered the burden of proof for a guilty finding in sex cases, and stripped the accused of due process.
One important – and overlooked – effect was how it changed the idea of the term “Left” in political terminology.
Why did a flimsy interpretation of a small artefact from provincial Sweden seem so important to the English-language world’s most powerful news outlets?
It wouldn’t be misleading to say that the greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself.
China quickly found itself facing dissatisfaction from those steamrollered by a policy of growth at all costs, in spite of the country’s economic and diplomatic successes.
The effects of that particular stance – it’s not so visible how harmful it can be. But you’re lying about the reality of hundreds of millions of people across the world.
Without such a process occurring, outsiders will be unable to look at the market and garner any reliable knowledge about the state of the world.
If you’re easily offended, it’s hard to understand the world.
Damore stresses that these are differences at a statistical level between large populations and that we should not assume that they are descriptive of any particular individual.
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