Loneliness of the university Liberal (2 Viewers)

[Napstar]

Moar like the Costello Memoirs, amirite?

 

[DavidBenGurion]

come on guys. they're posing for the cameras. gesturing to the big camera in parliament until the fat man walks in front of them

doubt they believe all this stuff

rite/

rite?!?!?1

 

[Ben1220]

Its hard to take the views seriously of anyone who actually fits perfectly into a political group that already exists. I think these people are more about group dynamics, needing to belong, conforming, then about political ideals. I guess its only human nature. If people actually cared about developing good political ideals there wouldn't be any of these 'groups' and parties, there would be independent critical thinking, intelligence, rationality and logic. Things would actually get done, progress would be made, knowledge would develop, agreements could be made on what is true and what is false, as opposed to what our group likes and what our group doesn't like. But thats not going to happen. Most people just suck, even at university there is plenty of stupidity. Of course wingnuts on both sides are equally to blame. Too lazy to use their heads.

Also I get very angry when students criticise professors. Professors aren't always right, they are human, but would you get into an argument or disagreement with a maths professor about maths?

 

[copkiller]

Capitalism + Christianity

Its a powerful duo.

The young libs claim to believe in small government by supporting slightly lower taxes, accompanied by massive government intervention into almost every aspect of our lives to re-enforce traditional Anglo-Christian values.

 

[SylviaB]

Australia is relatively great because groups like SA are allowed to exist. That's the point, we allow free speech to everyone, even those who we despise.

Fuck off, a guy got arrested because he made an anti-Jewish youtube video.

Australia has no constitutional right to free speech.

 

[dcb4usmcfr]

I remember there was a seminar held by some anti-israeli activists in Sydney Uni declaring that israel not real and even more, they directly quoted Hezbolla leaders' hate speech
They were not arrested

 

[dcb4usmcfr]

Fuck off, a guy got arrested because he made an anti-Jewish youtube video.

Australia has no constitutional right to free speech.

That really depends on the exact nature of "anti-jewish" video

Anti-jewish is too broad

He must have said something serious enough to invoke criminal charges, not because there's no constitutional right to free speech

 

[jb_nc]

the guy in WA was arrested because a court told him to stop and he didnt

 

[DavidBenGurion]

I remember there was a seminar held by some anti-israeli activists in Sydney Uni declaring that israel not real and even more, they directly quoted Hezbolla leaders' hate speech
They were not arrested

because they were heroes

and everyone knows the jews control our courts anyway

we all need to oppose that zionist scum

 

[Enteebee]

Courtney Dunn, 19, has never knowingly met another Liberal at the two University of Western Sydney campuses where she studies for a combined arts and law degree

lol. liberal at uws. stupid and evil

lol except for the fact that if she did ANYTHING Extracurricular she would find that all the involved law students at uws are libs ^_^

I remember there was a seminar held by some anti-israeli activists in Sydney Uni declaring that israel not real and even more, they directly quoted Hezbolla leaders' hate speech
They were not arrested

Because criticism of israel is hate speach?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGB4TTw3kHQ

lollollol if you can watch stuff like that and say that people shouldn't be able to say a FEW mean things about israel you're a fairly callous man


btw as far as free speech goes, I'd much rather be in the states than here.

 

[Sprangler]

I'd like to have a dead Gazan child's tight butthole wrapped around my tight throbbing- what's this thread about again?

btw as far as free speech goes, I'd much rather be in the states than here.

Why's that? What do you need to say that can't be said here? RACIST HATE MONGERERER. BoS is hosted in the US btw so it's all good.

 

[Freedom_]

remember, property rights > free speech.

 

[John McCain]

How utterly talentless are the liberal club at Usyd that such a hopeless joke could become president?

The whole long, 'anti-bias @ uni' campaign they've been running for years makes them look unbelievably childish. Grow up.

 

[Riet]

Well the universities can ban whoever they want on their property.

But you seemed to be speaking in general terms. We do not ban Neo-Nazi's in Australia, nor should we.

If you look in the United States there are some extremely dangerous, crazy groups that are allowed to exist; Westborough Baptist Church and and NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association) come to mind. But far from taking spreading their radical ideas successfully, these groups have remained on the fringes and have never gained public support.

The same is true of the SA over here. There is no reason to ban them because their ideas are so obviously moronic to the vast majority of people.

Australian law does not in anyway guarantee free speech wtf I have no idea where this baseless claim stems from.

 

[John McCain]

Australian law does not in anyway guarantee free speech wtf I have no idea where this baseless claim stems from.

Inspired books get banned in Australia all the time, that no decent person could object to.

Like this one

The Peaceful Pill Handbook - Google Books

 

[Riet]

The only difference between NSW and Germany circa 1939 is the weather.

 

[copkiller]

Australian law does not in anyway guarantee free speech wtf I have no idea where this baseless claim stems from.

IMO the universities SHOULD be able to ban whoever they want on their campuses. I'm not sure what the current legal position is though.

I'm a huge advocate of free speech, but free speech simply means that speech itself shouldn't be criminalized. People should still be able to evict you from their property if they don't like what you say.

 

[Riet]

There are plenty of laws in Australia criminalising certain kinds of speech.

Edit: Even the presses in Australia aren't THAT free.

 

[jb_nc]

this thread is now gay

thanks libertarians

 

[wixxy2348]

Lol, we had to analyse this article in a tutorial I just had. This girl thought it was a good example of how politics in Australia are clearly represented in campus politics... (lolwut?)

Was rather upset with Dunn's comments about having never knowingly met a UWS Liberal