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Oxford University Chancellor Lord Patten swiped at “safe spaces” on college campuses<\/a> as “mad” and “oxymoronic” in an interview with Oxford’s student newspaper.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s been a lot of talk recently about wokeism on campus,” The Oxford Student recently asked<\/a> Patten. “Do you think free speech is at risk?”<\/p>\n

“Look, I\u2019m an old-fashioned liberal and I believe that free speech and tolerance are one of the most important values in an open society,” he replied. “If universities aren\u2019t bastions of free speech, who\u2019s going to be? And it means that, \u2018No platforming\u2019, a pretty graceless phrase, should be anathema. When people talk about safe spaces intellectually at universities, it\u2019s mad. It\u2019s oxymoronic. That\u2019s not what universities are all about.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Patten, who served as the final British governor of Hong Kong, described how when he was an undergraduate who was “a Catholic scholarship boy from a moderately right wing, lower middle class family,” his moral tutor was a Marxist atheist. <\/p>\n

“Did that ruin me?” Patten said. “Did that astonish me? The truth is that I think what you should learn at university, among other things, is that an argument isn\u2019t the same as a quarrel. And that an argument and people who have a different point of view to you are not challenging your identity. They may have views about your identity. And I hope what we do at a good university is to give people the intellectual confidence and ability to argue tolerantly with people who don\u2019t agree with them.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Lord Patten did not deny that hate speech exists, but argued there is a better way to deal with it. <\/p>\n

“There is hate speech, but you define hate speech under the law, [such as] attacking gender or people\u2019s sexual preferences or whatever,” he said. “But [ultimately], the answer to bad free speech is good free speech.”<\/p>\n

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The topic of “safe spaces” has been prevalent in U.S. universities, with students often protesting when conservative speakers are invited to campus. In some cases, the protests have been so disruptive that speakers have canceled their visits, such as when former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice<\/a> decided to bow out of her commencement speech at Rutgers University in 2014. Several faculty members and students wanted the invitation rescinded because of Rice’s role in the Iraq War. Rutgers’ New Brunswick Faculty Council passed a resolution calling on the university’s board of governors to rescind its invitation.<\/p>\n

After Rice’s withdrawal, a group of students wrote a frustrated letter to university president Dr. Robert Barchi expressing their concerns that Rutgers was not a place where “the free ideas and a diversity of opinions are encouraged.”<\/p>\n

Both Republicans and Democrats have defended free speech on college campuses. President Obama<\/a>, for instance, famously sounded off on the coddling of college students at a town hall in 2015.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve heard of some college campuses where they don\u2019t want to have a guest speaker who is too conservative or they don\u2019t want to read a book if it has language that is offensive to African Americans or somehow sends a demeaning signal toward women,” President Obama said at an education town hall in Des Moines. “I\u2019ve got to tell you, I don\u2019t agree with that, either. I don\u2019t agree that you, when you become students at colleges, have to be coddled and protected from different points of view.”<\/p>\n

“Anybody who comes to speak to you and you disagree with, you should have an argument with them,” he added. “But you shouldn\u2019t silence them by saying, \u2018You can\u2019t come because, you know, I\u2019m too sensitive to hear what you have to say.\u2019 That\u2019s not the way we learn either.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/oxford-university-chancellor-sounds-safe-spaces-college-mad <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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