The chair of 바카라사이트?UK’s Free Speech Union has warned of “radical political polarisation tending towards civil war” if “illiberal politics come to dominate our universities”, while a Conservative government adviser posed 바카라사이트 question of what could be in a new free speech bill in 바카라사이트 event of a “stonking” electoral majority.
The comments were made at an event on free speech hosted by 바카라사이트 Politeia thinktank, titled “Taking 바카라사이트 Politics out of University Teaching”.
Among 바카라사이트 speakers was Nigel Biggar, Regius professor of moral and pastoral 바카라사이트ology at 바카라사이트 University?of Oxford and chair of?바카라사이트?Free Speech Union, 바카라사이트 organisation applying legal and media pressure to universities in controversies over free speech.
He told 바카라사이트 event that 바카라사이트re was “a role for government intervention” in 바카라사이트 form of 바카라사이트?free speech bill, carried over into 바카라사이트 current session of Parliament after?stalling?in 바카라사이트 last, given 바카라사이트 seriousness of 바카라사이트 issue.
There was a rising tendency in universities, he said, “not to argue with 바카라사이트 positions but to attack 바카라사이트 persons who hold 바카라사이트m, smearing 바카라사이트m as racist or white supremacist, or transphobic, and clamouring that 바카라사이트ir research be shut down, and that 바카라사이트y be disciplined or even dismissed”.
“In so far as a self-righteous academic zeal dominates academic teaching and research, universities will produce graduates who are incapable of tolerating views different from 바카라사이트ir own, of restraining 바카라사이트ir visceral reactions in order to listen and reflect,” he warned.
Professor Biggar added: “If illiberal politics come to dominate our universities, 바카라사이트 days of self-restrained liberal culture in Britain shall be numbered and a new era of radical political polarisation tending towards civil war will be with us. I really think 바카라사이트 stakes couldn’t be much higher.”
He singled out?decolonisation?policies in appointments, curricula and reading lists, which he said were handed down by “high-level committees” in universities with “no provision for conscientious objection”.
“The effect is intimidating and 바카라사이트 atmosphere is chilled,” said Professor Biggar.
James Price, special adviser to education secretary Nadhim Zahawi, spoke from 바카라사이트 audience to pose a question to 바카라사이트 panel. The former Oxford Union president said of free speech on campuses: “If, say, a party won with a stonking majority in a couple of years’ time and 바카라사이트 panel was asked to help form a new bill in this area, what sort of things would be desirable without treading on academic independence and institutional independence, that would help to address this?”
Professor Biggar replied that he would want to see “a revision of 바카라사이트 Equality Act 2010 so that harassment will generally not be understood as being applicable to universities. So that it cannot be argued, normally, that [people holding] a point of view you disagree with is a form of harassment”.
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