I'm in Canada and it's worse here. What bothers me is not just the creeping authoritarianism and censorship, it's the way that so many people actually support it. Their thinking is neaderthal: well that's not nice, they shouldn't say that, and we should force them to stop it. It's that basic. I a…
I'm in Canada and it's worse here. What bothers me is not just the creeping authoritarianism and censorship, it's the way that so many people actually support it. Their thinking is neaderthal: well that's not nice, they shouldn't say that, and we should force them to stop it. It's that basic. I am a professor/lecturer under suspension for a LI response to a guy who was calling for the extermination of Israel. I had just watched the Hamas massacre videos, and I wasn't feeling too jocular. I said I stood with Israel and said if you stand with Hamas, you stand with Nazis and then listed the less than glorious accomplishments of Hamas—presto - Human Rights Complaint against me. I've been suspended for four months and banned, banished, threatened, and defamed, I regret nothing, but some actual anti-semite (hundreds of posts, a lover of Hamas, the Houthis, dictators, hater of all thing Western) had a human rights complaint and he has had nothing happen to him, nothing, he's on campus, they've ignored it for six weeks and in six days with me they were shaking with rage at me, I am now accused (for my post) as a violent threat, accused of assault at school (when I was at home as I was banned from school), they have shredded me. And the VP has told her staff that I will be fired even though they are doing this Orwellian (I would say Kafka, but it's just trying to be smart; I haven't read him since high school, and I know his character became a dung beetle, that's it) They have lawyers threatening me, my table is stacked with paperwork. Everyone says I will be fired, everyone. And the real anti-semite, nothing. But I don't think he should be fired, I think he's a nasty racist ass but I don't think he should be fired. Seriously, free speech isn't a thing anymore, it's not, it's off with their heads. They take themselves so seriously. I'm supposed to meet some investigator; I will tell her off the entire two hours and tell her she's an idiot; I don't care. But my question is, the uni only cares about me talking to the media; they are obsessed; I'm not concerned about them getting their panties in a bunch (oh no, shouldn't say that), and if they want to fire me, they will, and we will see what the union does. But I don't have a lawyer anymore; she got too busy, and I'm not inclined to follow their stupid NDA. I told them truthfully I was on too much morphine when I signed because of kidney stones; it's a creative excuse; do they get to silence me? I'm tired of it. The union idiots want me to show remorse, but I'm not doing it. It's not only the societal ignorance on what free speech is, but it's these pompous twits with their serious faces acting me like I've been running a child slave ring; it irks me. If they fired me, could they throw me in jail for talking? I'm not signing any NDA, and I'm not shutting up. As a nation, we don't value free speech anymore; we are a nation of idiots. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/teacher-fights-back-suspended-denouncing-hamas
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I'm in Canada and it's worse here. What bothers me is not just the creeping authoritarianism and censorship, it's the way that so many people actually support it. Their thinking is neaderthal: well that's not nice, they shouldn't say that, and we should force them to stop it. It's that basic. I am a professor/lecturer under suspension for a LI response to a guy who was calling for the extermination of Israel. I had just watched the Hamas massacre videos, and I wasn't feeling too jocular. I said I stood with Israel and said if you stand with Hamas, you stand with Nazis and then listed the less than glorious accomplishments of Hamas—presto - Human Rights Complaint against me. I've been suspended for four months and banned, banished, threatened, and defamed, I regret nothing, but some actual anti-semite (hundreds of posts, a lover of Hamas, the Houthis, dictators, hater of all thing Western) had a human rights complaint and he has had nothing happen to him, nothing, he's on campus, they've ignored it for six weeks and in six days with me they were shaking with rage at me, I am now accused (for my post) as a violent threat, accused of assault at school (when I was at home as I was banned from school), they have shredded me. And the VP has told her staff that I will be fired even though they are doing this Orwellian (I would say Kafka, but it's just trying to be smart; I haven't read him since high school, and I know his character became a dung beetle, that's it) They have lawyers threatening me, my table is stacked with paperwork. Everyone says I will be fired, everyone. And the real anti-semite, nothing. But I don't think he should be fired, I think he's a nasty racist ass but I don't think he should be fired. Seriously, free speech isn't a thing anymore, it's not, it's off with their heads. They take themselves so seriously. I'm supposed to meet some investigator; I will tell her off the entire two hours and tell her she's an idiot; I don't care. But my question is, the uni only cares about me talking to the media; they are obsessed; I'm not concerned about them getting their panties in a bunch (oh no, shouldn't say that), and if they want to fire me, they will, and we will see what the union does. But I don't have a lawyer anymore; she got too busy, and I'm not inclined to follow their stupid NDA. I told them truthfully I was on too much morphine when I signed because of kidney stones; it's a creative excuse; do they get to silence me? I'm tired of it. The union idiots want me to show remorse, but I'm not doing it. It's not only the societal ignorance on what free speech is, but it's these pompous twits with their serious faces acting me like I've been running a child slave ring; it irks me. If they fired me, could they throw me in jail for talking? I'm not signing any NDA, and I'm not shutting up. As a nation, we don't value free speech anymore; we are a nation of idiots. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/teacher-fights-back-suspended-denouncing-hamas