Liberal fascism grows ever stronger in our universities

Jan 11, 2016 by

by Chris McGovern, The Conservative Woman:

Why are many university students these days so opposed to freedom of speech? Why are authoritative speakers as diverse as David Starkey and Germaine Greer being perceived as intellectual pariahs? What has convinced so many that the best argument against the views of Donald Trump is to refuse him access to the UK, to stop him speaking? Why has the ‘gag’ become the new argument of choice on our campuses?

For a society that has defined itself, to a large extent, in terms of  freedom of expression these are questions that needs answers; not least because the current curtailment of free speech is selective. It has not been applied, for example, to the likes of Moazzam Begg. He is the leader of CAGE, an organisation that aims “to highlight and campaign against state policies developed as part of the War on Terror”.This includes describing Jihadi John as, more or less, a ‘right on’ nice bloke – “a beautiful young man”who is “extremely kind, gentle and soft-spoken, the most humble young person I knew.”

“What you sow, you reap.” This is as true of education as it of much else in our society. For many years, now, schools have been promoting empathy for those whom the educational establishment, the ‘Blob’, consider to the ‘oppressed’. This is quite a large group: slaves, gays, women, workers, immigrants, subjects of empire, trans-sexuals, religious minorities and so on. On the whole, of course, empathy for our fellow human beings is a good thing. It only becomes a bad thing when it is leads to a distortion of truth, demonises that majority of us who make fewer claims to victimhood and when it restricts free speech.

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