Libby Purves said everything necessary in her article in The Times yesterday. I will not repeat it. Just click on the title to go there.
Matthew Shearman also wrote a nice letter:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article2956695.ece
The simple truth is that these students at Oxford University who have no respect for ancient freedoms or for free speech are uneducated barbarians. They spit. They squeak. They hurl abuse. They say that supporters of free speech are fascists. They
do not deserve to graduate.
Why? They have no rational arguments to advance. They are just thugs.
Ooops, how will they earn a living? Their juvenile (indeed, infantile) views do not qualify them to work in a free society.
Only kidding. Hopefully, they will grow out of their fascist tendencies.
My daughter has recently graduated from Oxford. She is not anti free speech. I do not therfore blame Oxford University. But I find it extraordinary that any University can permit attempts by any of its members (students or faculty) to attack (by violent or intimidatory methods) the sole and only purpose of its existence and not be called to account.
That purpose is to encourage informed debate and understanding based on factually accurate research and scholarship. Or, have I missed something?
The wanted posters are above. They are idiots who hold delusional beliefs. So what? Free speech is more important than they are.
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