It seems that the lefties have finally done something useful and worthwhile. The Universities and Colleges Union in the UK has declared that anyone should be allowed to ‘identify’ as black (or, presumably, Maori) regardless of the colour of their skin or background. The union, which represents 120,000 academics,
Press Release: ACT Party Tertiary institutions will be legally required to protect academic freedom and free speech on campus or risk losing funding under a new member’s bill proposed by ACT Leader David Seymour. “There is a growing danger of taxpayer-funded universities abusing their health and safety obligations in
Redline Information Satire The Committee of Disobedient Women has intercepted an email from Dr Emma Eejut, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Massey University to the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Jan Thomas. Dear Jan, Thank you for your courageous move. I think 10 pages of blether** should tie any of the students game
The ACT party is fast becoming the Free Speech party of New Zealand politics. David Seymour has withdrawn a Free Speech Bill in order to strength it further by making tertiary institutions’ funding dependant on them taking “ all reasonable steps to protect academic freedom and free speech”. No doubt this
We have written previously on The BFD about Massey University’s recently announced free speech (snort!) policy and rules. Sadly, just like George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth which was actually the Ministry of Propaganda, their free speech is anything but free. Stephen Franks writes that “Massey Council has doubled
IINZ A recent petition from Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) demanded an end to small annual university prizes funded by the Israeli Embassy. The Israeli Ambassador funds two annual prizes, worth a total of $750 NZD, at Victoria University of Wellington. These are the only New Zealand scholarships funded
UCLA-Berkeley was the home of the modern free-speech movement. Now, it’s the home of its death. Not a natural death, either, but a murder in the first degree. Berkeley has been the site of violent riots by left-wing extremists intent on shutting down speaking events they don’t like.
Press Release: ACT Party Massey creates ‘safe spaces’, protects feelings not speech “Massey University’s new free speech policy shows it is more concerned with protecting the feelings of a small number of students and creating safe spaces for them than it is with defending a central pillar of Western
Massey University has killed free speech, and now they are burying the body under a mountain of paperwork that I call the Massey Manifesto. Massey University really, really REALLY don’t want speech to be free on their campus. Any event organiser who wants to have a speech event on
Keean Bexte of Rebel News reports: Natalie Salisbury was kicked out of school after defending the traditional red and black poppy. Her crime? The Grade 11 student refused to don an LGBT-inspired rainbow poppy so she printed off posters to defend her decision and explain why the traditional red and
In an opinion piece on Stuff by a Massey University Senior Lecturer, Dr. Steve Elers, the reader is given a very strong impression that the decision to remove the Hong Kong protest posters was financially motivated. “So, the question becomes: Are we prepared to risk our fourth largest export earner,
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Massey University has staggered from one PR disaster to another, leaving a trail of muddy footprints over the bodies of anyone who makes the fatal mistake of thinking that Massey University will uphold the principles of free speech and welcome a contest of ideas. It turns out that at Massey
As I’ve written before, there is a disturbing trend on the left extreme of the political spectrum to normalise paedophilia as just another “sexual orientation” (and I’m not the only one to notice). In many ways, this is back to the future: the 70s and early 80s witnessed
David Theobald I see with dismay, but not surprise, that Oxford University is the latest British educational institution to adopt this ridiculous jazz hands rubbish in lieu of clapping. This is to avoid triggering or offending those who may be disturbed by loud noises. Give me a bloody break. More
