Reinstate Free Speech at the University of Edinburgh
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Tony Green
10 years ago
I am stunned at the notion of a university as a safe space. Since when have education and ideas been safe? They are supposed to upturn the status quo.
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Alice Adams
10 years ago
Worrying that universities seems so unconcerned with free speech and free thought these days. Highly political whose speech they seem to want to limit, too.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
This is a university and students should have the freedom to debate topics freely.
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Stephen Munslow
10 years ago
The concept of a "safe space" is utter nonsense. No-platforming is simply censorship.
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Bryan Jeffrey
10 years ago
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
- George Washington
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Tom Slater
10 years ago
Down with campus censorship!
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Graham MacEwen
10 years ago
This is a debate we engaged in 30 years ago - we must continue to fight for the right to defeat bigotism with rationale argument.
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Nick Bigwood
10 years ago
Glad to see someone supporting a human right that gets trampled on too much
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William Urquhart
10 years ago
Fuck EUSA
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Danny McGrory
10 years ago
It's time to end professional victimhood. Truth is born of argument, not safe spaces.
I am stunned at the notion of a university as a safe space. Since when have education and ideas been safe? They are supposed to upturn the status quo.
Worrying that universities seems so unconcerned with free speech and free thought these days. Highly political whose speech they seem to want to limit, too.
This is a university and students should have the freedom to debate topics freely.
The concept of a "safe space" is utter nonsense. No-platforming is simply censorship.
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
Down with campus censorship!
This is a debate we engaged in 30 years ago - we must continue to fight for the right to defeat bigotism with rationale argument.
Glad to see someone supporting a human right that gets trampled on too much
Fuck EUSA
It's time to end professional victimhood. Truth is born of argument, not safe spaces.
http://www.edinburghdebatesunion.com/ Enough said.
Universities used to have debating societies, now they have safe spaces. Enough said.
Free speech is a lynchpin of any free democracy. Don't stifle it!
'We are adults, we do not need condescension or safeguarding'. Quite right!
Thanks for your signature Kathryn
Very important issue.
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Wholeheartedly agree.
Sound argument, intrigued to see EUSA's response.
Universities must be places where ideas, thoughts, and opinions, are freely discussed, debated, and interrogated. Free speech is essential