Free speech is so last century.<\/a> (HT: Karl White)<\/span><\/p>\n On Tuesday, I was supposed to take part in a debate about abortion at Christ Church, Oxford. I was invited by the Oxford Students for Life to put the pro-choice argument against the journalist Timothy Stanley, who is pro-life. But apparently it is forbidden for men to talk about abortion. A mob of furious feministic Oxford students, all robotically uttering the same stuff about feeling offended, set up a Facebook page littered with expletives and demands for the debate to be called off. They said it was outrageous that two human beings \u2018who do not have uteruses\u2019 should get to hold forth on abortion \u2014 identity politics at its most basely biological \u2014 and claimed the debate would threaten the \u2018mental safety\u2019 of Oxford students. Three hundred promised to turn up to the debate with \u2018instruments\u2019 \u2014 heaven knows what \u2014 that would allow them to disrupt proceedings. <\/span><\/p>\n Incredibly, Christ Church capitulated, the college\u2019s censors living up to the modern meaning of their name by announcing that they would refuse to host the debate on the basis that it now raised \u2018security and welfare issues\u2019. So at one of the highest seats of learning on Earth, the democratic principle of free and open debate, of allowing differing opinions to slog it out in full view of discerning citizens, has been violated, and students have been rebranded as fragile creatures, overgrown children who need to be guarded against any idea that might prick their souls or challenge their prejudices.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Here is the response you must make to these liberal-left shitheads: <\/span><\/p>\n ARGUMENTS DON'T HAVE TESTICLES!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Not nuanced enough for you? See Arguments, Testicles, and Inside Knowledge.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Free speech is so last century. (HT: Karl White) On Tuesday, I was supposed to take part in a debate about abortion at Christ Church, Oxford. I was invited by the Oxford Students for Life to put the pro-choice argument against the journalist Timothy Stanley, who is pro-life. But apparently it is forbidden for men … Continue reading “Nothing Liberal About Liberals<\/i> Department: Free Speech is Out on the Left”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n