Universities — Outposts Of Censorship

Trying to raise awareness of the wholesales slaughter of innocent unborn babies has apparently become a criminal offense for which one could be arrested.

CALGARY, Alberta, November 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The U of C is again attempting to censor student members of the campus pro-life club by threatening them with arrest and sanctions for non-academic misconduct (including the possibility of suspension and expulsion) if they do not comply with an order to turn Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) displays inward. GAP is a graphic exhibit which includes photographs of unborn babies who have been aborted.
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University officials have also told the Calgary Police that the GAP display poses a threat of violence.

An editorial in the Calgary Herald yesterday, however, said that "the only violence here is that being done to the principles of free speech."

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But threatening pro-lifers with arrests for "graphic" displays (even though "graphic" displays are still perfectly fine for animal rights activists or for those who protest the genocide in Darfur) isn't the only thing a university could come up with. Here's another "enlightened" initiative: Queens University in Kingston, ON is hiring six "dialog facilitators" to watch and intervene in student conversations in order to promote "diversity" and object with what they think is "offensive".

The six graduate students from diverse backgrounds have been hired to encourage discussion on race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and other social issues, as well as step-in when they hear conversations that could be deemed "offensive." Each facilitator went through an 11-day training course to prepare them for their roles and have been granted free room and board as well as a yearly stipend as payment.

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Bravo, Queens University! Could there be a better way to demonstrate how sustainable and logically sound their "progressive" ideology is? If a university discovers that despite all the non-stop brainwashing on campus, they still need a team of "speech inspectors" - what chances does their ideology have in a free debate?

Dear Dean of Queens University! I got an idea for you: How about calling those six students that have agreed to censor their coeds in exchange for free tuition, room and board, "team Goebbels"? Sorry if such a proposition offends you. But with all due respect - it wasn't me who created a situation when driving onto campus is like crossing the border from a democratic country where we have free speech to a dictatorship which suppresses speech.