As I detail in my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies), universities campuses are no longer centers of higher learning, but radioactive wastelands of hard-Left indoctrination that do not allow opposing points of view. They worship “diversity,” except intellectual diversity. Ryerson University is a disgrace for giving in to the Left-fascists and submitting to their violent intimidation, but in this submission it’s just like virtually every other university and college out there these days.
“College Responds To Hosting Panel On Free Speech By Canceling It,” by Rob Shimshock, Daily Caller, August 16, 2017:
Ryerson University canceled a panel Wednesday dedicated to discussing the silencing of free speech on college campuses, citing “campus safety.”
The Canadian school canceled “The Stifling of Free Speech on University Campuses,” an Aug. 22 panel featuring three doctors and a pro-free speech journalist, citing a prioritization of “campus safety” over free speech “in light of recent events,” according to correspondence obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Social justice activists set up a Facebook page entitled “No Fascists in Our City!” to protest the event. The page’s header image depicted a swastika crossed out.
“Fascists are planning to meet on August 22nd at Ryerson University to discuss how to avoid what they call ‘SJW’ Culture,” the protest description reads. “Tickets are being sold for $20 and frankly it makes us virulently ill … Considering the rise of Nationalism here and abroad we need to show these people and their guests that we will not tolerate their backward nonsense in our city.”
Approximately 500 individuals signed up for the protest, with nearly 2,000 others stating that they were interested. Sarina Singh, a Ryerson graduate who was hosting the free speech event, received a call from Ryerson Wednesday morning informing her of the event’s cancellation.
“The reason cited was security concerns and safety of the community,” Singh told TheDCNF….
“I made three requests, suggested getting Toronto police involved for safety, [but the university] told me my event was canceled PERMANENTLY,” the event organizer said.
“There is often a tension at universities resulting from our commitment to be a place for free speech and our commitment to be a place that is civil, safe, and welcoming,” Michael Forbes, a communications officer for Ryerson, told TheDCNF. “In light of recent events, Ryerson University is prioritizing campus safety.”
The free speech panelists expressed disappointment with backlash to the event and the university’s decision.
“[Progressive activists] were calling me a Nazi, a fascist, and an anti-Semite,” Dr. Gad Saad, a Concordia University marketing professor and one of the panelists, told TheDCNF. “I’m Jewish. So, they’ve lost the plot. It’s a form of lunacy that’s difficult to diagnose.”
Saad, who had already booked a flight and hotel for the now-canceled event, termed the social justice activists’ behavior “ostrich parasitic syndrome,” stating that they denied reality and behaved as though their brains were turned into mush.
“Apparently supporting freedom of speech makes you a Nazi these days,” Saad told TheDCNF. “I think our existence is now hate speech … that I exist as an independent person who spews his thoughts freely is an affront to those who wish to control him … Orwell couldn’t have come up with the realities that we’re facing today.”
Saad noted that people who express incorrect opinions get beheaded in the Middle East. He said that while the West was not yet at that stage, activists could “do the next best thing” and go after a speaker’s livelihood, reputation, and platform to speak. He suggested that “cowardice is the eighth deadly sin,” and that universities did not possess the “effort, courage, and testicular fortitude” to stand up to those trying to silence speech….
RAB says
I’m a Canadian, a three-time graduate of the U of T, and I’m speechless
gravenimage says
Speechless is exact;y how these thugs want you.
Minutes1234 says
Obviously.
John Forbes says
MUSLIM JUSTIN TRUDEAU & his MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LIBERALS all support actions like this !
JUSTIN does not like free speech at all & supports the M-103 motion & is working on having Blasphemy laws made a part of the Canadian Legal Code !
He is backed by GEORGE SOROS , the WAHABI SAUDI MUSLIMS & MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD !
CANADA is heading fast towards the introduction of SHARIA !
Dark days ahead for CANADIAN FREE SPEECH & DEMOCRACY !!
Grace says
Sadly, everything you say is true, John. I mourn for the Canada we used to be, and will never see again. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on all those who are promoting this takeover, it will not be a good country to live in when the left has finally gotten their way.
brane pilot says
Antifa Rule #1: never allow an alternative view to be expressed publicly.
Antifa Rule #2: never debate an alternative view.
Antifa Rule #3: violence is always justified.
Antifa Rule #4: attack all symbols of an alternative view.
Antifa Rule #5: limit media coverage of an alternative view to violent disturbances, or destruction of its symbols.
Antifa Rule #6: associate an alternative view with fringe elements who will be viewed negatively.
Antifa Rule #7: those whose view is to be extinguished are ‘Fascists’ guilty of ‘hate’ who ‘do not deserve to live’.
Antifa Rule #8: once the Media in on board, you have won.
This is what you are up against.
It works.
No one has figured out how to counter it, short of open war in the streets.
UNCLE VLADDI says
@Brane pilot: Re: “No one has figured out how to counter it, short of open war in the streets.”
Do you want to stop education system leftists from brainwashing our gullible college & university students?
Then EDUCATE THEM! Force them to see that no “groups” or gangs should ever have “rights!” as such idolatry only enslaves real live human individual citizens by forcing responsibilities onto them by taking away and diluting their own formerly universally objective, equal human rights!
Some petty criminals whose only qualifications are bossing around children, go into the “education system” to abuse kids with their own infinite lists of victim-blaming alibis to excuse their own criminal desires and actions.
You are correct in that kids today are trained by criminals to be extortionists:
The Creed of the Ungrateful Cretin:
If you see something you want, take it.
If you encounter something you don’t understand, mock it.
If you see something you didn’t make, break it.
When you hurt yourself, blame others.
When you feel inadequate, attack!
….
Here’s how the so-called “soft” sciences aka “humanities” (anthropology, psychology, sociology, and even criminology) really work: They all started off by examining the various symptoms and EFFECTS of human behavior, thinking, group-thinking behavior, and of criminal free-will CHOICES, respectively, but then self-invalidated by looking for hidden mysterious predestined and predetermined inevitable force “CAUSES” of it all, which degraded them all into only one criminal, excuse-making alibi topic: “VICTIMOLOGY!”
So we get these two, permanently opposed philosophical poles:
Law-abiding Conservatives: “Criminal behavior is an effect of free-will choice!”
Criminal libertines: “But what CAUSED that choice? There’s always a cause!”
Their implication is that there are no crimes nor criminals because we’re all “victims.”
In short: they went from studying HOW people CHOOSE to act, to focusing on WHY (ruling out free will choice entirely)! And that “why” PRESUMES a fear of pain will ALWAYS trump rationality! “So” we are all really ever only helpless victims!
😉
Anne Dunn says
You have illustrated what is happening in collages and campuses very well . Perhaps what is needed here , is some kind of legal response.. We been a good case and an expert Lawyer to bring this to court … I would be willing to crowd fund this . We need someone who is well known and respected to take these idiots on , and expose the bullies for what they are!
John Forbes says
CANADA is now heading towards becoming a SHARIA CONTROLLED Place as each PROVINCE FALLS to SHARIA !
MUSLIM JUSTIN , WYNN & NOTLEY are supporters of the LEFT & will allow this to happen if CANADIANS do not wake up !
M-103 is the start of the END OF FREE speech as this heads towards becoming a bill & it looks as though this will happen.
ISLAMOPHOBIA is now heading towards illegality even though the TERM is a BOGUS one specifically designed by the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD to get COMPLETE & EXCLUSIVE protection for ISLAM !
FRE Canadians seem even DISTANTLY AWARE !!!
D Austin says
“Social justice activists set up a Facebook page entitled “No Fascists in Our City!” to protest the event. The page’s header image depicted a swastika crossed out.”
I’ll bet they welcome communism and the Soviet flag!
Terry says
And the “Palestinian” Flag, and the ISIS flag and the Venezuelan Flag.
AND SPEAKERS FROM ALL THREE.
I am sure that Berkley and other UC and other colleges and universities are the same.
mortimer says
Response to D. Austin: “No fascists in Our city” (note the capitalization of Our).
I sometimes point out to these self-declared anti-Nazis that Stalin called Trotsky and Trotsyites “fascist”. I ask them if they believe that Trotsky and his followers were in reality “fascist” or if that was just a slur to permit Stalin to attack them.
These self-declared anti-fascists don’t appear to have the ability to make an intellectual argument. Where is this insane version of communism suddenly coming from?
Westman says
I doubt they even know who Trotsky was let alone the assassination of he and his wife by Stalin’s operatives.
It seems to me that they are frightened, much like the students who deferred from military service during the Vietnam War, of the real world, and want it changed to be more like their social media and movie fantasies.
I think much of the rhetoric and violence is displacement of their fear of failure in a foreign world and they are trying to tear down meritocracy. Unlike the generations past who didn’t have an information highway yet took on adulthood, this current crop seems to have all knowledge at its fingertips yet is caught up in suststained adolescence.
mortimer says
This is a generation that was indoctrinated by their socialist-leaning teachers to be obedient to the party line. Anyone who stepped outside of the party line was not tolerated.
Obedience is the opposite of debate.
Westman says
Is that the description of a religion, Mortimer?
Perhaps it’s time the college-bred liberals had a shrine at which to worship and express faith, say, the Che Guevara Mausoleum in Cuba? It could become a pillar of liberalism to make a pilgrimage there once in a lifetime. It could also be a requirement to offer some Zakat for a pet cause, taken, of course, from others. Instead of Friday prayers they could have a weekly hate-release demonstration. In place of fasting, they could insist we all eat organic vegetables.
And, most importantly, they could make it an objective to turn all the world’s people into liberal zombies by whatever means possible; making certain, that in the last days, we are not forced into the Hell Of A Meritocracy. Those refusing to comply would be purged.
Considering the efficiency this faith system would produce, Soylent Green could become all the rage.
Emilie Green says
The president of Ryerson is Mohamed Lachemi.
Robeaver says
Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh. Now it becomes clear. Stealth jihad. Jihad now overt. Islam is here and influencing society in a big way. I am assuming someone whose first name MOhamed is not a Presbyterian of course. I could be wrong. Wonder where he got his PHD and in what area? Anyone know by research? Islamic studies comes to mind, but maybe Wife Stoning in the 21st Century was his thesis paper. Could be anything, really. What money was paid to the Board of Governors who hired this traitor? Does Saudi Arabia have an Islamic studies Chair at Ryerson? Just wondering.
Emilie Green says
To be fair he does seem to have put in real work, earning degrees and working in science=based technical fields. So he’s to be given credit for that. Algeria,a Muslim country, appears to be his place of birth.
So while he has earned his stripes in the sciences, as we in the counter jihad have learned. Muslims prize Islam about all else.
http://www.ryerson.ca/president/about/biography/
gravenimage says
You are right, Emilie.
Ren says
Cowards!
Santa Voorhees says
I just cannot get how a person like Gad Saad could be called a Nazi, given his background.
That says plenty about how the leftists spew the word “nazi” just for the sake of spewing it.
I bet that, if you ask a leftist what the definition of “Nazi” is, they won’t know.
D Austin says
“In all ages the people of the world have accepted words for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely pause to note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed by performance.”
mortimer says
Agree with D Austin: “content with a show”. What the self-declared anti-fascists are doing is ‘a show’… in the sense of role-playing.
Jihadwatch readers need to learn a new word: LARPING
LARP is an acronym of Live Action Role Play, a type of game where a group of people wear costumes representing a character they create to participate in an agreed fantasy world.
The self-declared anti-fascists don masks so that they may escape their boring lives for a few minutes and become superheroes in their minds.
Cartoon superheroes in the comics are fictional, but the LARPERS are putting lives at risk and come to protests ready to wound, mame and kill.
mortimer says
To S. Vorhees: Please note that Stalin called Trotsky and his followers ‘fascists’ before he arrested them. I ask these young hoodlums (literally) ‘Do you think Trotskyists are actually fascists or is that just an accusation that Stalin used to abuse them?
Santa Voorhees says
mortimer, I haven’t researched much that stuff yet so I can’t give you a clear answer. However, I know only that Trotsky opposed Stalin’s views of “Socialism in one country” and called for a “permanent revolution”.
As I said above, I haven’t researched it much so well, I can’t give you an answer.
Robert Crawford says
What they mean by “Nazi” is “person I want to see killed”.
Santa Voorhees says
No, probably they mean “person which disagrees with me, that can easily counters my lies with facts and truth and therefore I am need to shut down the discussion altogether because I am mentally retarded and don’t have an actual counter-argument (not that I had one in the first place)”
Terry says
Santa, WHY INSULT PEOPLE WHO MIGHT ( THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN) BE MENTALLY RETARDED.
THESE SJW AND OTHER ASSHOELS ARE JUST EVIL.
Santa Voorhees says
You are right! After all, I keep saying that leftist have no brain lol.
Sorry retarded people! I did not want to insult you! I am so sorry I have compared you to the leftists! You are still much smarter than them! I am so sorry! Forgive me please!
mortimer says
To S. Vorhees: they join Antifa so someone else can think for them. They never have to think again after joining.
Santa Voorhees says
mortimer, yes, indeed. That is so true.
An antifascist organization that supports a fascist religion… how progressive!
tedh754@gmail.com says
Of course they would know. “Do I agree with them? No? Then they are a Nazi. I don’t like the designated hitter rule in MLB. He does? He’s a Nazi.”
Robeaver says
There are 8 mohamed on university website. One works in the presidents office as an “advisor on special projects”. I can’t ascertain whether that is the actual president though as phone won’t go thru directory, so I just searched for mohamed as a first name. Don’t have a computerto find out any other info. Could someone please???
gravenimage says
Rob, the president and vice-chancellor is Mohamed Lachemi.
Matthieu Baudin says
Highly intolerant of dissent or diversity of opinion which is the norm for the great majority of institutions of higher learning today.
gravenimage says
Canada: Ryerson University cancels “Stifling of Free Speech on University Campuses” event after Leftist threats
…………………………..
Leftists don’t even care that this proves the point of the conference.
Keys says
Yes, and some do not even realize it; and if they did, they still would not care.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Keys. I doubt many have even noticed.
YorkshireKufir says
I can see that enrollments will collapse as Ryerson next year – a self inflicted wound if ever i saw one.
mortimer says
The Heckler’s Veto was defined by an American judge as : “… an IMPERMISSIBLE content-based RESTRICTION on speech where the speech is prohibited due to an ANTICIPATED DISORDERLY or VIOLENT reaction of the audience.”
It has also been defined as a “…calculated assault characterized by loud, one-sided conversations, shouted interruptions, JABBERED FALSE FACTS, THREATS and PERSONAL INSULTS”.
Most American and Canadian politicians today are unable to understand that free speech is the foundation of both countries, since both were founded through free discussions and free assembly. They do not realize that the government does not ‘GRANT’ free speech, because God is considered by both the American and Canadian constitutions to be the source of that freedom.
The ‘heckler’s veto’ is nothing but VIGILANTE LAW or the LYNCH LAW imposed by a MOB. No group attempting to administer a self-made law which vetoes the freedom of expression of others enshrined in the constitution should be tolerated. The heckler’s veto is a crime against the majesty of the law in the constitution which is the supreme, dominant authority controlling the conduct of everyone, however exalted or high his power.
The heckler’s veto is an attempt to overthrow free speech which is the law of the land, and in its place to set up mob law, lynch law, and to substitute lawlessness for the law enforcement which obtains in civilized countries.
Baucent says
” They worship “diversity,” except intellectual diversity. ”
Well said Robert.
mortimer says
They don’t want diversity of thought, because they are unable to win a debate.
jewdog says
Today’s college degree is tomorrow’s toilet paper.
eduardo odraude says
Ryerson U — education with no limits — except those set by the mob. The mob controls Ryerson. After all, the administrators do the mob’s bidding, so who really runs the place?
Georg says
“It’s a form of lunacy that’s difficult to diagnose.”
Agree and disagree. The thread of anti-Americanism/anti-Westernism/anti-white folks seems to tie it all together and explain what would otherwise be contradictory (such as the Red-Green alliance, cheering of the worlds Cubas and Hugo Chavezes, even goofy things like the glorification of crackpot “eastern medicine”).
WPM says
“So much of left-wing though is a kind of playing with fire by people who do not even know fire is hot.”
By George Orwell
Georg says
Good quote. Reminds me of a Douglas Murray one where he said something like, “Many liberals make a career out of attacking hornets’ nests that are empty, and when they come across one that is full [see: Islam] they run the other way.”
Lydia says
University cancels “Stifling of Free Speech on University Campuses” event after Leftist threats…
Can we say “case in point”?
Rather ironic, no?
Proves the point without needing the lecture!
Georg says
Correct
No Fear says
Ryerson University should immediately be torn down because it was built by slaves. Oh, no, wait a minute…..it wasn’t built by slaves…….tear down the White House, it was built by slaves. How dare a US President live in a house built by slaves……oh , wait a minute…….. Obama lived there ……..hmmmmmm this is getting a little complicated……..
tim gallagher says
Santa Voorhees comment up above about “an anti-fascist organisation that supports a fascist religion…how progressive” makes a good point. Of course, these left-wing fascists are exactly what they say they are opposing. They are bullying and often physically violent fascists. The very definition of fascism. Islam is the same. The leftist bullies only oppose the expression of conservative and mainstream views that they don’t agree with and insult it with the term “fascist”. “Fascism” is one of those words that has absolutely zero meaning through its misuse by these leftie fascist “anti-fascist” groups. Just a meaningless insulting term to be thrown around. Freedom of speech is under ferocious attack these days as Robert Spencer often points out. Universities, in the grip of Marxists, are a pathetic joke, closing down free inquiry, doing the opposite of what universities are meant to be about.
Santa Voorhees says
Yes, exactly. An antifascist organization that supports a fascist religion. It would be like seeing chickens supporting McDonald’s or the KFC.
Really, someone should ask any Antifa member the definition of “nazi” and “fascist”. I bet most (like 75% of them and higher) won’t even know.
Antifa just doesn’t realize that if muslims take power, they will be slaughtered if they do not convert to Islam. Perhaps THAT will be their wake up call…. but probably they will still blame conservatives because they wrongly labeled jihadists as terrorists and therefore it will be their fault if muslims radicalized and killed them.
First, what leftists fail to realize (yeah, I know, no surprise here) is that muslims have a totally different mindset from our own.
What is a crime for us (raping women, for example), to them it is not.
They expect muslims to integrate well into society but if muslims refuse to do so, leftists shift the blame on native people because they haven’t done enough and that sort of crap (while in reality native people didn’t even want them in in the first place).
Another thing, is that they assume all religions are equal and therefore do not teach violence. That is exactly why islamic terrorism is not being tackled, leftists just look for other excuses such as mental illness, or trying to spin the fault on xenophobia of the natives or conservative
speech, while in reality they’d just have to look at the Quran. They just refuse to acknowledge the problem.
However, notice how leftists always know their religion when it suits their narrative, just look at all articles and tweets where they say that muslims have helped victims of the Greenfell Tower fire, not that I have anything against that, but seriously, why they hide it after they instead commit an act of terror o mass rape women?
Of course I know, it wouldn’t suit their narrative! That’s it.
But if a native European commits an act of terror (that is, of course, putting a piece of bacon outside a mosque’s door and that sort of things, mind you!) or rapes a woman etc.. leftists will have no problem labeling him/her/they as christians/white supremacists/whatever.
The Quran violent verses, with many muslims taking them literally, is exactly why conservatives speak against Islam in the first place. It is just not that hard to get, but apparently leftists are too stupid to comprehend this simple concept.
Seriously, if there was a Stupidity World Cup tournament, leftists would win every fucking time!
Terry says
Two more quick points to back part of your argument.
Recall when a Somali Muslim in Columbus, Ohio (at Ohio State) rammed students with his car, then attacked them and others with a knife? (I don’t recall if any were killed).
Immediately–it was one person, not all Muslim,s and a lecture or seminar on ISLAMPHOBIA.
Compare to VA this past weekend. ONE PERSON, whose mother said that he had mental (or was it emotional? something like that) problems, takes his car, rams a group, kills a person.
ALL WHITES ARE GUILTY. ALL THOSE AT THE RALLY ( EXCEPT THE LEFTIES) ARE GUILTY.
Disregarding- the white groups had permits. The others did not. Does not matter.
tim gallagher says
I agree with both of you, Santa and Terry. The so-called progressive left should have nothing in common with primitive, backward and totally barbaric Islam on any issue, such as ,say, women’s rights, gay rights, etc. It’s only their shared hate for free western societies and their free enterprise economies, etc, that brings them together I guess. Their protection of Islam shows a complete lack of integrity. And you’re right, Santa, any Islamic takeover of power would see all these lefties slaughtered along with most of us non-Muslims. So their support of Islam is insane. It’s such a strange world we live in. I heard an interview with Mark Steyn a few years back on radio out here in Australia and he was asked this exact question about why the left backed Islam and you could hear that he was really puzzled by it, then answered, “Well, because they just seem to hate the West more than Islam” or words to that effect.
Santa Voorhees says
Yes, they are bent on hating the West and the white race because of colonialism/imperialism, WW2, etc…..
And to be honest, I am sick of it!
Islam came out of Arabia in the 7th century and managed to conquer Spain and some parts of eastern Europe, along with northern Africa.
Yet leftists stay completely silent about this and they ain’t telling Arabs they should diversify and welcome Spaniards in for the sins their ancestors did.
The Mongols conquered a huge parts of Asia in the 13th century. Yet leftists stay completely silent and do not tell Mongolia they should diversify and invite in Russians, Chinese, Iranians, or whatever they conquered westwards.
While it’s true that the West did it too, why are we the only ones who are bashed for it by the leftists?
We certainly weren’t the first to do these sort of things. But as we all know, leftists just love to ignore facts and history.
Rosie says
For anyone who doesn’t know, Gad Saad is a jew born in Lebanon whose family was forced to flee for their lives because of Islam. He has a you tube channel worth checking out
Wellington says
Since a boy when I visited Canada almost yearly, I as an American came to greatly appreciate our wonderful neighbor to the north (as did my American father who inculcated in me a love for Canada). Later on I became aware that while many Canadians esteem America, sadly many don’t. My historical studies have led me to the conclusion, a solid conviction actually, that while certain gripes by Canadians about America are legitimate, no doubt, those Canadians who have an essentially negative view of America are lesser people and those Canadians who realize the greatness of America (with all its imperfections) are not lesser people——–quite the contrary, they’re the wiser ones by far.
I write all this because this article functions as just more evidence that Canada is even more “advanced” than America is in betraying its great origins. And this saddens me tremendously. I have always wanted, and will always want, optimal Canadian-American relations since, historically speaking, these are two of the greatest polities ever created by man. What especially troubles me is that Canada has a far smaller population than does America and thus that prototype for Nazism, I here of course refer to Islam, can make far more inroads than in the US just because of the sheer numbers factor. Also, America now has a President who, whatever his faults, is a champion of freedom, as was Canada’s previous Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. Now, profoundly unfortunately, Canada has the most foolish Prime Minister in all its history going the whole way back to its first PM, Sir John Alexander Macdonald, (though Justin Trudeau’s father, Pierre Trudeau, also did much harm). Trudeau, like Obama, is a rank apologist for Islam. If one does not see the potential and already actual harm done by this lesser human being who is now Prime Minister of Canada, then the chief problem becomes that standard query——ah, where to begin?
This Ryerson University “case” prompted me to write what I did. I felt compelled to do so. I could do no other. Long live a free and wise Canada. This will entail, of course, realizing the true worth of Justin Trudeau, the true worth of Islam and, of course, the invaluable worth of liberty.
mortimer says
Jihadi Justin is a Manchurian candidate who is a puppet of his handlers. He is an empty suit. The Liberal Party of Canada is entirely globalist, in bed with the banks, George Soros and drug companies and Muslim Brotherhood. It is the most illiberal group and its not working for the voters.
George Soros is probably the hidden hand behind the Ryerson stifling of free speech.
D Austin says
First they disarm the people, then bring in the Muslims…
Scorpio says
This situation seems to becoming the norm. Wouldn’t it be a good idea if there was a list that identified universities and other institutions that only allow talks or debates supporting the views of only the liberal-left.
At the moment such institutes are getting a free passes without doing anything! If people knew that the institution only tolerated the views it agree with, the students would only be talking to the “choir” and that doesn’t make for an interesting evening. Secondly, institute that only attract those of a like mind would, I suspect, result in lower intakes of students with the eventual consequent outcomes. Where as those that did offer free speech, as a guarantee, would tend to flourish.
On the jobs market students would be identified as being those on the list and employers could identify what they are in for! As for the other institutes its a win – win situation for those who tolerate real diversity!
Terry says
Scorpio, I DISAGREE with you-re job market.
Look at the ” diversity of opinion” in large firms.
Google fired a gentleman for writing an internal paper regarding (in his opinions) problems with Googles attempts at total diversity, etc- saying, people are different. So, rather than discuss or debate, they fire him.
Pres. Trump says, THAT BOTH SIDES ARE WRONG (Va riots) (OK, not exact words) and clarified- that he did not want to make a more definitive statement without having the facts.
RESULT: CEO’S RESIGNED FORM THE (reality- useless and window dressing) ” advisory councils” in protest OF NOT DENOUNCING “RIGHT WING” GROUPS, ” WHITE SUPREMACISTS” ETC. AND INFERRING THAT THE LEFTIES WERE AS MUCH AT FAULT.
SO, WITH CEO’S WITH SUCH A MINDSET, who do you think their underlings would be looking for? The best and brightest? My view. HELL NO. Yes men and yes women. Just my view
Larry says
Can you say: Ironic? Well, Canada never has held free speech in high regard.
James Stamulis says
They call the right NAXI’S yet it is the left that uses Hitlers tactics to a tee! He silenced the opposition so he could rise to power and the leftist MSM propaganda would make Hitler blush!
jewdog says
How ironic that a free speech talk was cancelled, and instructive. Don’t go to Ryerson college as they can’t guarantee the safety of your rights to free speech.
mortimer says
Governments will have to remove funding if colleges fail to protect free speech.
jewdog says
I don’t know about Canada, though. There’s no First Amendment there.
D Austin says
It all depends on what students are willing to tolerate. Canada probably has them well indoctrinated as leftists by the time they get to college.
Dov Berrol says
Prospective university students and donors should be able to access an annual report providing “intellectual diversity” and “freedom of speech” ratings for universities and colleges around the world. Just like they are rated for “facilities” and “campus services” and other factors, freedom of speech and intellectual diversity should be included in the evaluations.
I bet you not one university in a Muslim-majority country will make the top 100.
DogOnPorch says
“The ironing is delicious.”
—Bart Simpson
Guy Macher says
I urge Ryerson alumni to drop financial support.
D Austin says
Antifa Flag Comes Directly From The German Communist Party In 1932
http://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/2017/08/16/antifa-flag-comes-directly-from-the-german-communist-party-in-1932/#
davej says
They stifled a conference on the stifling of free speech ha ha. Probably too stupid to appreciate the irony too.
This is a form of terrorism and those who made that decision are terrorists.
endislam says
Look at the garbage Trudeau is allowing into the country – http://globalnews.ca/news/3658241/somali-criminal-records-canada-us-deportation-intelligence/
No wonder he wants to stifle Canadians, the moslems might get upset when hearing the truth of their cult.