'There is a climate of intimidation at British universities - we are afraid to speak about anything controversial'

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'There is a climate of intimidation at British universities,' says Oxford’s moral philosophy professor

A fellow philosophy lecturer was rueing the day he had agreed to be his grandson’s “friend” on Facebook, then accepted requests from hordes of students. “I took that as a warning and never signed up,” says McMahan.

 

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TheStaunton Junior and senior schools too.

If you conversation is racist or sexist, then u should know better. Easy to forget that Hitler did not just kill Jews, b4 killing them he encouraged the Arts and academia to back his perverse idea of Jewish consiparcy to dominate the world! Academics are not above the law

The left vocabulary - racist, xenophobic, bigot, misogynist and Islamophobia. Known as shutting down freedom of speech if you do not agree with far left dogma.

attended 2 public US universities, taught at 3. never felt intimidated, maybe because I was too obtuse to realize someone was saying hush. Retired after 40 years, and NEVER had someone suppress speech, tho' they did discourage using words we don't use on US radio 🙄

Not afraid to do an interview in The Telegraph though. Got to keep your head down I suppose.

Twitter has coarsened and dumbed down debate for many years now. All people are equal but not all tweets are equal.

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