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| Subject: Free speech on campus? Only for extremists: Top UK academic says demand for 'safe spaces' is leading to double standards Thu Apr 06, 2017 12:26 am | |
| Students are allowing extremists on to campus while denying free speech to moderate speakers, a leading academic says.
Professor Anthony Glees said undergraduates were happy to demand ‘safe spaces’ to avoid old-fashioned thinking while giving free rein to hardliners.
He said the phenomenon represented a double standard whereby free speech is afforded to only some groups in today’s universities.
The politics professor, who heads the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham, warned it was a threat to the higher education sector.
And he said students were wrong to allow a platform to those who might be seeking to radicalise youngsters.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4384866/Free-speech-campus-extremists.html |
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