After I sent a request for speakers: Ann Coulter and Ben Shapiro, Noah, the VP of communication has been avoiding me like the devil avoids the holy water. I finally met him at Jack Layton’s speech. No wonder we cannot have any balance here if the members of Univ. communication are also members or sympathisers of NDP. Which bring me to another point. Should Universities be a place for political activity? I say no. Want political activity? Go to NDP meeting.
Now, privatisation of education.
Unfortunately, I’m not the first one to come with this fantastic idea. There have been others. The article I quote from is so good that I basically have nothing to say and it is useless to paraphrase. Here’s the excerpt. I will probably use it in my final paper. I don’t know yet.
"But subjecting speech to majority rule, the left correctly argues, obliterates freedom of speech. Thus, it concludes, we must leave college professors alone.
This is a false conclusion. The truth is that public education as such is antithetical to free speech. Whether leftists are forced to pay taxes to fund universities from which their academic spokesmen are barred, or non-leftists are forced to pay taxes to fund professors who condemn America as a terrorist nation, someone loses the right to choose which ideas his money supports.
To protect free speech, therefore, universities would have to be privatized. The owners of a university could then hire the faculty they endorsed, while others could refuse to fund the university if they disagreed with its teachings. But since privatization would threaten the left's grip on the universities, it vehemently opposes this solution. In the name of free speech, the left denounces as "tyranny of the almighty dollar" the sole means of actually preserving free speech.
So we must not be fooled by the professors' cries about threats to their freedom of speech. Freedom is precisely what they don't want. Their grumblings are simply smokescreens to prevent us from seeing that we are right in objecting to being forced to finance their loathsome ideas."
This is it guys. Separation. Deadly words, taking into consideration that liberals are not a majority in this country so if Concordia (providing it stays liberal) had a conservative competitor with no unions, it would lose lots of money. Not only from the government, but also from tuition as many students finally having a choice, as it should be in democratic society, would switch to other university.
Brilliant. Now let’s do it. I can’t wait for the end of a semester. It’s going to be a busy summer.
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