Reinstate Free Speech at the University of Edinburgh
489 Comments
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Dragos Marginean
10 years ago
Freedom of speech means the freedom to say stupid things. You might be thinking now "boy, that doesn't sound nice...", but how can we distinguish the truth without putting it side by side with a non-truth?
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Blake
10 years ago
This. Is. Beautiful.
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Charlie Peters
· petition starter
10 years ago
Thanks for your support Andrew, it is much appreciated
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Andrew Emerson
10 years ago
Horrified that this great institution has stooped to these illiberal and intellectually dishonest policies. Time for a change.
[Alumnus, class of 2007]
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Charlie Peters
· petition starter
10 years ago
Thanks Graham, great to have your support
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Charlie Peters
· petition starter
10 years ago
Thank you for your support, especially as a UoE graduate.
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Charlie Peters
· petition starter
10 years ago
All too true
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Your current policy of "No Platforming" and "Safe Space" is an affront not only to free speech but also to the very definition of education.
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His High Witness, The Prophet V
10 years ago
Yorkshire, England, The British Isles
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Karl Craig
10 years ago
All liberty spreads from free speech. To limit free speech is to herald in a new Inquisition by those who think only their opinions are true and correct.
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will Barton
10 years ago
If you need a safe space because you can't cope with someone's views, then leave university and go back to infant school.
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Salmon Cushty
10 years ago
Fuck off! Thought Police...
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Aaron Oakley
10 years ago
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell
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Anthony Hesketh
10 years ago
Free speech is all we have between us and the barbarians !
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Jan Macvarish
10 years ago
I fully support this petition and applaud the attempt to turn back the tide of fearful, voluntary infantilisation.
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Brett Walker
10 years ago
You risk creating a generation of intellectual and emotional cripples who will be crushed by the reality just outside campus gates.
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Ed Hellings
10 years ago
Free speech more than anything else, is the cornerstone of society, of democracy and is our only effective guarantee against tyranny.
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Kate Bopp
10 years ago
Enough already! No more pampering of crybullies. If young adults are wrapped up in cotton on campus they will self destruct when they emerge into the real world where nobody has time for this mind numbing navel gazing.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Down with this sort of thing.
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Dr Craig Paterson
10 years ago
As a former alumnus I find this move by the EUSA a terrible attack on free speech and an attack on the ideals of enlightenment. Reverse it now.
Freedom of speech means the freedom to say stupid things. You might be thinking now "boy, that doesn't sound nice...", but how can we distinguish the truth without putting it side by side with a non-truth?
This. Is. Beautiful.
Thanks for your support Andrew, it is much appreciated
Horrified that this great institution has stooped to these illiberal and intellectually dishonest policies. Time for a change. [Alumnus, class of 2007]
Thanks Graham, great to have your support
Thank you for your support, especially as a UoE graduate.
All too true
Your current policy of "No Platforming" and "Safe Space" is an affront not only to free speech but also to the very definition of education.
Yorkshire, England, The British Isles
All liberty spreads from free speech. To limit free speech is to herald in a new Inquisition by those who think only their opinions are true and correct.
If you need a safe space because you can't cope with someone's views, then leave university and go back to infant school.
Fuck off! Thought Police...
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell
Free speech is all we have between us and the barbarians !
I fully support this petition and applaud the attempt to turn back the tide of fearful, voluntary infantilisation.
You risk creating a generation of intellectual and emotional cripples who will be crushed by the reality just outside campus gates.
Free speech more than anything else, is the cornerstone of society, of democracy and is our only effective guarantee against tyranny.
Enough already! No more pampering of crybullies. If young adults are wrapped up in cotton on campus they will self destruct when they emerge into the real world where nobody has time for this mind numbing navel gazing.
Down with this sort of thing.
As a former alumnus I find this move by the EUSA a terrible attack on free speech and an attack on the ideals of enlightenment. Reverse it now.