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Yeah they should just leave it in the hands of the Hell's Angels...good quality and low price without all the moral hassle.

No. The only reason Laurier apologized was because she taped the interaction, showed it to the press, and Laurier was bombarded by former students cancelling their annual donations. She told them she had the recording, and nobody gave a shit before. This is not the case of a couple rogue professors. This is the climate being intentionally created at Laurier, and I highly doubt they are alone on this. The mantra seems to be 'we support free speech' as long as that free speech isn't counter to our ideals. Also, they seem to be dwelling more on the fact that the professor made an exaggerated comparison to Hitler's speech, than the fact that they accused this young woman of a hate crime, and causing violence against trans students by showing a TVO video.

I think he also suggested Peterson was an alt-right type and aligned his beliefs with white supremacy for some odd damned reason. As soon as the recording emerged he immediately backtracked and said he respected Peterson, by which I assume some lawyer informed him about our slander laws. Yeah I thought that too. Don't universities have policies against bullying? Three authority figures browbeating a 22 year old girl and making spurious allegations and threats should certainly be considered bullying.

The big difference there is between truly, madly, deeply legal tax avoidance for the upper crust and evasion for the lower orders: the poor break the rules; the rich make them.

http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/wilfrid-laurier-universitys-president-apologizes-to-lindsay-shepherd-for-dressing-down-over-jordan-peterson-clip Only in a University could showing an opposing view be compared to Nazi Propaganda. She wasn't even advocating for gender neutral pronouns or not, she was just showing both sides of the argument and she gets punished for it. These professors should be ashamed of themselves.

If the ignorant could become informed, they wouldn't have been ignorant to begin with. When ignorant people think they've become "informed" of something, they aren't any more informed than before, they've just been persuaded to believe something by someone else. That's how ignorant people become "informed" that homeopathy works, or that vaccines cause autism, or that an undead dude in the sky is watching them.

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/site/the-list.aspx We're talking about today. I'm really not concerned with what happened thousands of years ago, or even decades ago. Islam never had a peaceful coexistence with anyone throughout its entire history up until the time when their military abilities fell behind that of those around them. You give Islam credit for not, say, trying to attack Europe in the last generation!? Seriously!? Islam threw itself against Europe again and again until they were no longer able to do so. Just as they threw themselves against the Indians, and against anyone not Muslim (not that they didn't make war on each other too). This is a religion whose origins were spread by the sword, and whose adherents took up that sword up until their enemies shot them down with guns. All that has changed in modern times is the relative ease of transportation and travel across the world. Fifty years ago it required a considerable amount of money to get from the middle east to Europe or North America. Now air travel is ubiquitous. Fifty years ago almost no Muslims lived in the West but then immigration was relaxed and now there are many.

I don't know how a non-binary trans works but its offspring appears to be in a no-trans bind.

I hate people who stereotype, but everyone knows that the best doctors are Asian - at least that's what my mexican gardner and my jewish account tell me.

First of all can I say your newfound refusal to parse these discussions makes them much more difficult to understand? WTH anyway? Have you been possessed by the ghost of Big Guy? Second, sexual assault definitely SHOULD be a priority issue. But what legitimate studies have told us is that the hysteria about a 'culture of rape' on campuses is so much nonsense, and that the sexual assault rates are actually lower than in surrounding populations, and lower even when age is taken into consideration. It is, therefore, simply another crime that might occur on campus and crimes should be investigated by police and dealt with by courts. Third, either university students are adults or they are not. If they are not then they should not be permitted to vote, or drink, or have credit cards or make any decisions on their own, and there should be a curfew at their dorms. If they are adults they don't need university administrators holding their hands and substituting their own highly incompetent investigative and interviewing abilities for that of trained police. Such policies are part of what infantalizes university students. Fourth, substituting the passive term suggesting I have been 'offended' is disingenuous. You deliberately intended to cause offense. Man up about it. And that is only my 'playbook' when dealing with people who deliberately intend to insult and offend me. I return the favour.

There was a story on the CBC today about a new requirement from the BC government for all post secondary institutions to adopt sexual assault policies. These policies are to guide the universities in their mandatory investigation of such complaints and how to hold hearings. It left me thinking... shouldn't all post-secondary institutions also have policies on, say, murder, and armed robbery and violent assault? On fraud and kidnapping and burglary? Now some silly people might get the idea that these are all crimes, and that universities are neither equipped nor normally tasked with investigating criminal offenses, let alone having trials about them, but for some weird reason that doesn't seem to apply to sexual assault allegations. Apparently the snowflake generation can find police and courts to be too intimidating. They want a warm, comforting, uncritical hearing when they feel they've been abused by some nasty male type. And universities and government are eager to give in to their desires. After all, aren't university students all small children in desperate need of care, guidance and protection? And children never lie, you know, although of course they do, actually, but never mind. The point is that often enough when these complaints about having been sexually assaulted are held up to critical eyes they seem hard to justify, and we can't have that. Every complaint which doesn't result in a conviction is a complaint which was treated unfairly. And since the damn courts continue to insist on things like 'proof', which is, after all, nothing but a eurocentric cultural relic defended only by privileged white men, the universities will have to take on the task themselves. Universities, after all, rarely concern themselves with such ideals. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-post-secondary-sexual-assault-policies-a-start-but-fall-short-experts-say-1.4078365

I guess so, but we have to reinforce dialogue around this IMO. The people who are complaining have significant political power and will impose their values on those who don't agree so you can complain in a vacuum or engage. Freedom of speech doesn't stand a chance against mob rule.