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We need to be able identify thought terminating cliches and deal with them appropriately. We need to encourage not suppress speech in society.
Sorry for the incovenience of having to go to youtube to watch the happenings at the Oxford Union. It was quite a raucous affair.
Compare and contrast with the lecture at Cambridge where students as opposed to radicals came out and a productive mostly civil debate and conversation resulted.
The activist Left wants more of Oxford and less of Cambridge. I implore everyone watching to be more like Cambridge and respect others and their opinions while debating the merits of the arguments at hand.
This was Douglas Murray’s closing statement in the Munk Debate over whether one should trust the mainstream media. It should be required viewing over at the CBC and CTV.
Also, see the full debate here where you can watch Douglas Murray and Matt Taibbi crush the opposition and especially Malc Gladwell, who offered little toward the substantive debate of the topic at hand (constructing strawmen and playing the racism card doesn’t seem to cut it in serious debate).
Universities should be places where the hard discussions can be had. Contentious issues are what Universities are made for… or at least what they were made for.
Once you meet the interloper please observe his tactics. He is attempting to provoke a reaction using mid level violence techniques. His goal, while completely discrediting himself, was to discourage debate. His asshollery was deliberate. Never give them what they want, as the goal of their ‘activism’ is your reaction.
It may be hard in the moment but let them be the clowns and disrupters – you keep your cool like the trio of Billboard Chris, Peter Boghossian and James did.
Never heard of mid level violence? Find out.
Discussing issues about our society in the online world is almost always a contentious affair, but lately it seems that people are particularly unwilling to engage in conversation and debate.
One of the terms that is getting thrown around liberally is the “the Far Right”. Any point of disagreement once this magic spell has been pronounced can be safely disregarded and the conversation considered to be “won” by the person deploying it.
The problem is that, in reality, nothing has been ‘won’ and more importantly the issue at hand has not been discussed or evaluated on any meaningful level.
The only solution is more engagement and involvement, it is what keeps our society free and functioning.
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