College Calls Police On Student Who Said 'Tranny' On Radio

[Chris]

I'm starting to believe that some members are allergic to reading comprehension....I didn't say you scoured, I said websites that scour.

FFS.

Websites don't scour. Webbots scour websites.

Perhaps the allergy is writing coherence.

[Safety]

Websites don't scour. Webbots scour websites.

Perhaps the allergy is writing coherence.

Social autism is a terrible condition. While you are focused on me, did you get a chance to write that apology yet? http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...98#post2217098

[Chris]

Happening more and more and more.

Laurier university starts independent probe after teaching assistant plays clip of gender debate



Found this. Listen to what the university argues...

Follow up on that earlier post.



Jordan Peterson's comments on the university's treatment of her:



And guess what, she's been vindicated: Laurier apologizes to teaching assistant who aired clip of gender-pronoun debate

Lindsay Shepherd was initially criticized by her faculty over playing a clip featuring outspoken University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson in her tutorials, but the university has since apologized.

An Ontario university has apologized to a teaching assistant who was severely chastised for airing a clip of a debate featuring a controversial figure, saying the woman was not treated according to the institution’s values.

The president of Wilfrid Laurier University said the school is proceeding with a third-party investigation into the dispute with graduate student Lindsay Shepherd, but said recently revealed audio recordings of her interactions with her immediate superiors made it clear an apology was in order.

Shepherd said she discreetly recorded a meeting with three Laurier faculty and staff members in which she was roundly criticized for failing to condemn the views of polarizing University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson, who has refused to use gender-neutral pronouns. She had aired a clip of a debate featuring the professor as part of a communications tutorial.

Laurier university starts independent probe after teaching assistant plays clip of gender debate

An Ontario university that has raised eyebrows among those concerned with questions of academic freedom has engaged a third-party investigator to probe an incident involving one of its teaching assistants.

Lindsay Shepherd, a graduate student at Wilfrid Laurier University, said she ran afoul of school authorities after she aired a clip in two tutorials of a debate on gender-neutral pronouns featuring polarizing University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson.

The excerpt from TVO’s current affairs program The Agenda shows Peterson, who has famously refused to use gender pronouns other than “he” or “she,” defending his position against a professor who argued it was necessary to use the pronouns that a person prefers to be called.

Shepherd said she was chastised by her superiors for failing to condemn Peterson’s remarks outright and told her neutral approach to the clip was tantamount to remaining neutral on other objectionable views such as those of Adolf Hitler.

[Chris]

So here's why the university apologized: Teaching assistant who was sanctioned questions sincerity of Wilfrid Laurier University's apology

...Shepherd told CBC News she didn't see where the university had any other option but to apologize.

"This was their only option," she said, adding, "I didn't expect their apology to be sincere. I don't think that they are sincere."

...On Wednesday, the issue was raised in the House of Commons as Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer made it the first question of the day.

"Will the prime minister join me in condemning the egregious crackdown on free speech at Laurier University?" he asked.

The prime minister was in Toronto at that time, announcing the Liberals' new national housing strategy. So the question was answered in the House by Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan.

"Our government is committed to creating open spaces for Canadians to debate and express their views," she said.

"In a free society, we may disagree with people's views, but we must defend their right to hold them, unless those views promote hate. Intolerance and hate have no place in Canadian society or in our post-secondary institutions," Duncan said.

The Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship wrote a letter of support for Shepherd, saying it's not the university's job to shield students from certain views.

"The purpose of classroom discussion, though, is not to bring students into any particular set of beliefs or attitudes, but to help them to make up their own minds," the letter said. "Requiring teaching assistants to condemn views as problematic is in conflict with this purpose, as the teaching assistant would then be pressuring the students to reject certain views."

...On Tuesday in Ottawa, federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer called the meeting Shepherd had with her professor an "inquisition" and said he couldn't believe what he heard.

..."I believe it's part of a larger concern that I've witnessed and seen and heard feedback from from students and faculty from around the country that there are more and more impediments to free speech on campus."

[Chris]

Follow up from Shepard. It's a zinger.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpg6P1PNWR8

[Captdon]

Were you the one who claimed here that incidents like this in our institutions of higher learning are extremely rare or unusual?

Do as I say now not before.

[Captdon]

Or you could be a mature human being and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude about the situation, instead of feeling the need to play the "manlier-than-thou" game and thinking up new ways to express your disgust and discomfiture with folks who are different.

Or you could admit they are freaks with no standing for anything. Free speech works two ways not just as you libs want it.

[RadioGod]

Technically, there's no such thing as a ' transgender ' because, it's impossible to change ones gender.

I suppose, you can call them, drag queens or, female/male, impersonators.

Try telling that to Monsanto or Cargill. Now we are finally seeing why third generation mice on GMO's don't reproduce, they are all homosexuals.

[Chris]

Another follow up: "Lindsay Shepherd is a graduate student and teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University. Known for being reprimanded by her university for playing a Jordan Peterson video in one of her classes, she discusses freedom of speech and victimhood culture on campus in her ideacity talk."



She's soft-spoken but a fire-brand for free speech.