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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
To me, all of the talk about fining universities, or forcing universities to allow or prohibit speakers is just another massive smokescreen. I'm not sure how much this will ever be invoked, and universities are generally pretty self governing by the student bodies on issues like this. With the questionable speaker at the UofL, they were forced to allow him to speak, but then the student body invoked their own right to protest when he arrived, and he ended up not speaking.
I hate to pile on the C-11 discussion, but this feels like a 'waving arms over here' issue so that the Bill is not overly scrutinized.
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I'm not going to get into it too deeply, but my understanding is that, the University of Chicago understood that the concept of allowing Free Speech on Campuses was, at the time, ambiguous at best.
It was something that some groups or others could be allowed or disallowed based on how the wind was blowing through the halls of Academia at the time.
So they decided to try and standardize it via 'The Chicago Principle' so as to try and eliminate the ambiguity, de-politicize the process and remove the ability to cast blame for allowing one thing versus disallowing another.
Lets just say...its not perfect, but I understand the intent.