That old chestnut
Posted on Nov 26 2007 | Tagged as: Politics, The Stupid, Race, Free-speech fundamentalism
Via Tim, Antonia Bance on Griffin and Irving’s appearance at the Oxford Union:
“And even if they were to, is it not breathtakingly arrogant that Oxford undergraduates believe that in a five minute debating speech they could somehow defeat either, when it took a Cambridge Professor of Modern History weeks on the stand to rebut Irving’s assertions?”
It took a Cambridge Professor of Modern History weeks on the stand to rebut Irving’s assertions to the standard required in a court of law. Hardly the same, is it?
Personally I’d love to see the cream of the UK’s students rubbishing BNP plans to spend a fortune to encourage every last non-white person to leave the country.
UPDATE:
on 26 Nov 2007 at 6:31 pm 1 Jon said …
I’m with you mate. I think the BNP and chums should speak. Despite being very wide of the mark, issues of immigration and Britishness that the BNP bring into the public domain are not welcome topics of discussion for the PM and his cabinet, or to the likes of equal opportunities groups. That’s why they don’t want them to speak. The BNP and chums will stitich themselves up without the Oxford students having to do much, as they are ridiculous and racist. But the broad subject matter they will discuss will bring closed door debates into the open, and that is important in preventing the likes of the BNP claiming support they should never have access to.
on 28 Nov 2007 at 6:13 am 2 Szwagier said …
Count me in. Freedom of Speech has to be Freedom of Speech for my enemies or it’s only Freedom to Agree.
on 28 Nov 2007 at 4:38 pm 3 Christopher White said …
“Freedom to Agree” makes me think of a university political society, each of them showing to the others how Right On they are, and, well, agreeing with each other, Sybil Fawlty-like (”Yes, I know…”).
In short: awful.