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Here is an article illustrating a valid point. With some comments of my own in brackets):
Stifling free speech 'not healthy'
BY JOE WARMINGTON, TORONTO SUN
FIRST POSTED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2017 08:19 PM EDT | UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2017 08:23 PM EDT
Well-known Toronto psychologist, Ryerson teacher and media commentator Oren Amitay says "the name calling, the labelling and prevention of free speech is not healthy.”
(NO KIDDING! LIE-berals are using smear tactics against their opponents since all LIE-beral policy has failed into disgrace and left LIE-berals without valid talking points! LIE-berals smear because they are now bereft of logic!)
Oren Amitay’s grandmother survived Auschwitz.
But that didn’t prevent him and fellow panellists who were scheduled to take part in a cancelled Ryerson University discussion from being called fascists, Nazis and anti-Semitic.
“It has got to stop,” the well-known Toronto psychologist, Ryerson teacher and media commentator said Wednesday. “The name calling, the labelling and prevention of free speech is not healthy.”
It is, however, effective.
The panel discussion — set for Aug. 22 — was billed as the “stifling of free speech on university campuses.”
It featured Amitay, high-profile university professors Gad Saad and Jordan Peterson and recently-fired The Rebel journalist Faith Goldy.
The stage was set for what would have been an interesting, and perhaps fiery, discussion, which would have included Goldy offering a defence of her decision to go on an alt-right podcast: “Not as an endorsement, but to naively try to show the alt-right movement was spreading like wildfire.”
(The ugly reality is that LIE-beral refusal to deal honestly with racial and immigration matters is polarizing th country! LIE-beral bigotry and promotion of special interest groups in exchange for votes is driving people to radical siolutions since moderate voices are being shouted down!)
In light of the tragic events that resulted in the heinous murder of an anti-fascist protestor during a violent rally against white supremacists in Charlottesville, Ryerson pulled the plug.
“The safety of our community is a top priority. In light of recent events, Ryerson has made the decision to cancel the Aug. 22 event,” the university said in a tweet.
The irony that a panel discussion about free speech on university campuses had to be cancelled at Ryerson was not lost on anyone.
“We are doomed,” tweeted Saad. “I don’t know what else to say. If people don’t rise up, freedom of speech will disappear.”
(With LIE-berals working hard to rush free speech to its doom! Psychologist Rick Mehta has been fired from his job at Dalhousie U. For making statements that anger LIE-berals and their supporters! Our schools now ONLY RECOGNIZE LIE-beral values as being acceptable on campus! All other dissenting voices are FIRED!)
And not only that, but the people who were supposed to be on that stage have been branded racists just like the ones down in Charlottesville.
“No, no, no,” tweeted Saad. “The enemies of truth who shut us down referred to us as Nazis, anti-Semites, and white supremacists.”
Amitay said the lumping in of anybody involved in a panel discussion is an alarming narrative spreading across the U.S. and Canada.
“The way things have become, if you are not part of the far left, you’re seen as a Nazi,” said Amitay.
It’s not nice, but it is effective. It’s not easy to erase such a tag thrown around so irresponsibly.
Amitay “loves Ryerson,” where he has taught courses for 16 years and understands the institution’s interest in ensuring there were no injuries arising from the panel discussion.
That said, from my point of view, if people want to keep free speech — and not be defined by largely anonymous enemies — they must stand up to such bullying.
(LIE-berals LOVE FREE SPEECH! It is the LIE-beral definition of free speech that is DEADLY WRONG! LIE-berals want easy questions lobbed gently at them in such a way that they can answer with vague platitudes that present them as warm and fuzzy caring people- with NO NEED to get into real problems like national bankruptcy, national security, Muslim terror etc! LIE-berals want us to be a zoned out and ignorant/carefree as the colds in Orwells book Brave New World! That LIE-berals would legalize marijuana and then seriously talk of legalizing opiods like Heroin indicate they really do want us drugged up and careless!)
As long as it’s constructive, it’s productive to have an exchange of ideas and it’s not necessarily bad to engage in passionate and non-violent discourse. Having a dialogue about race, gender or immigration is not racism just because a political movement — which pushes a guilt-by-association narrative — brands it as such.
(LIE-berals SCORN any exchange of ideas as they have all they want and do not need others that expose LIE-beral hypocrisy to public scorn!)
And painting everybody on a panel as a racist without even hearing their diverse points of view is odious.
“The labelling is just plain wrong,” said Amitay.
And not because he’s of Jewish background with “a Japanese wife and siblings that are gay and black.” It’s wrong because it curtails freedom of expression, thought, ideas and opinions.
“I teach my students about critical thinking and to challenge things,” said Amitay.
It’s not a stretch to challenge outrageous accusations that Amitay is a Nazi when he’s the grandson of a woman who had a serial number tattooed on her wrist.
(Nazis were willing to tolerate the presence of Jews- IF they made themselves useful in some important way- so to with LIE-berals- they are willing to tolerate white people who keep their heads down and their mouths SHUT!)
(It is no coincidence that it is easier to get permission to play the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will- glorifying Adolf Hitler in a Wilfred Laurier U. Class than it is to speak the words of Psychologist Jordan Peterson or to read aloud from Toronto Sun newspaper!)