There should be distinction between "academic freedom and freedom of speech" says Amelia Jones, trans and non-binary student officer for Sussex University
Sussex academic Kathleen Stock faced calls to be sacked for views on gender identity
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Is the full clip available? Who were the 4 people? Anyway, academic freedom is different to free speech, and the only limits to AF is incitement to violence, which is why the attacks on Stock are so egregious.
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I worry that so many, very vocal, people should want to silence others who have different views on how trans people (usually biological men who now wish to live in the female gender and be viewed as women) should be viewed, even by medical science and biology.
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Surely we can have whatever view on whatever we want. Every time someone is not happy with something the goal posts are moved. Pathetic
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Throughout history totalitarian regimes have been swept in by student groups. Lots of examples in the thread:
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5. Robert J. Lifton writing about forced social acceptance of the Nazi regime pre-holocaust:'Militant behaviour from the National Socialist Student League, which organised early, soon came to dominate or replace traditional student groups and formed an arrogant subculture
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Amelia Jones asserted that the posters and actions by trans rights activists against Professor Stock was an exercise of their freedom of speech.
It was targeted harassment of protected speech by masked individuals to intimidate a lesbian academic.
#IStandWithKathleenStock
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The University of Sussex scored 15 points on University Challenge on Monday night. Just saying.
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