The chancellor of Oxford University slams safe spaces on college campuses as 'mad' in an interview with one of the school's student newspapers.
Radio talk show host Dennis Prager speaks out about the importance of free speech amid increased attacks on conservatives.as"mad" and"oxymoronic" in an interview with Oxford's student newspaper.Patten."Do you think free speech is at risk?"
"Look, I’m 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’t bastions of free speech, who’s going to be? And it means that, ‘No platforming’, a pretty graceless phrase, should be anathema. When people talk about safe spaces intellectually at universities, it’s mad. It’s oxymoronic. That’s not what universities are all about.
"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’t 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.
"There is hate speech, but you define hate speech under the law, [such as] attacking gender or people’s sexual preferences or whatever," he said."But [ultimately], the answer to bad free speech is good free speech."
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