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SOME FREE SPEECH NEED NOT APPLY AT U OF T

Many by now have heard or seen of how University of Toronto newspaper The Strand took the 'courageous' path of publishing a cartoon of Jesus Christ kissing Mohammed under a Tunnel of Tolerance.

Lifesite News does a wonderful job of showing the hypocrisy of the modern day university campus where free speech is always selective and one can get away with virtually anything as long as you are 'pro-gay'.

All chuffed up on finding his inner 'libertarian', the newspaper's spokeman...er person... feels he is only doing his duty.

"The cartoon is a sort of Canadian statement on religious tolerance," Nick Ragaz, managing editor of The Strand, the student newspaper of Victoria University at U of T told the Toronto Star. "This is not an act of hate," he said. "It's controversial, yes, but it's no attack," said Ragaz."

Ironically, Lifesite News was able to find no fewer than three recent instances where speech was not so free at University of Toronto.

"In 2004, a pro-life club at the university wanted to present a pictorial display which graphically compared abortion to historically recognized genocides. The University of Toronto obstructed the free speech rights of its pro-life students. The university insisted that the display be erected in an open-sided tent with most of the posters facing inwards, making it virtually impossible for the signs to be seen from outside the tent. "

"When internationally renowned Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft delivered a talk at the university in 2003 which expounded Catholic teaching on homosexuality, the Student administrative council passed a resolution to declare the talk as hate and demanded an official hate-speech investigation."

"In 1999, an ad for a tenure-track professorship at the University of Toronto appeared in the August bulletin of the Canadian Association of University Teachers saying that only candidates with a "feminist and anti-racist perspective" need apply. At the time, University of Toronto Professor Thomas Pangle, said that the ad "makes explicit what I had thought was usually only implicit, namely, that ideological conformity was the chief prerequisite for such a position at our university."

No one should be shocked that this cartoon would occur at the University of Toronto or at the hypocrisy surrounding it.

Sooner or later someone is going to tell the story of what it's like to be a student on a modern university campus.

The lies.

The hypocrisy.

The brainwashing.

It will shock many and cause many refutations. It's coming. I can feel it.

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 7:38 AM