Thing is, he hasn't been censored yet...This culture of censoring strong opinions is a threat to free speech. Slippery slope.
We are committed to providing an environment in which all members of the university community treat each other with dignity and respect and our code of student conduct sets out clear expectations of behaviour. We can confirm that complaints alleging misconduct have been received against Mr Travers and these are being investigated. It is, however, untrue to suggest that Mr Travers is ‘under investigation’ for ‘mocking ISIS’.
This culture of censoring strong opinions is a threat to free speech. Slippery slope.
Seems it’s bollocks spun up by a media hound of a student.
From the uni:
I’m a free speech zealot, but the law of the land includes hate speech I’m afraid.
It was a hugely regressive step to make it a 'hate crime' to criticise religions, particularly a religion which actually advocates killing others for not believing.
You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the Lord your God. “If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant, and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden, and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel, then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones
A heathen who studies the Torah deserves death, for it is written, Moses commanded us a law for an inheritance; it is our inheritance, not theirs. Then why is this not included in the Noachian laws? -- On the reading morasha [an inheritance] he steals it; on the reading me'orasah [betrothed], he is guilty as one who violates a betrothed maiden, who is stoned. An objection is raised: R. Meir used to say. Whence do we know that even a heathen who studies the Torah is as a High Priest? From the verse, [Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments:] which, if man do, he shall live in them. Priests, Levites, and Israelites are not mentioned, but men: hence thou mayest learn that even a heathen who studies the Torah is as a High Priest! -- That refers to their own seven laws.
Don't think so. Maybe Abrahamic religions do, does Buddhism, Sikhism, Bahá'íism, Zoroastrianism or Confucianism do so?And all religions advocate killing others, that’s what medieval ideology was like.
shmee is an idiot when it comes to religion. outright liesDon't think so. Maybe Abrahamic religions do, does Buddhism, Sikhism, Bahá'íism, Zoroastrianism or Confucianism do so?
Don't think so. Maybe Abrahamic religions do, does Buddhism, Sikhism, Bahá'íism, Zoroastrianism or Confucianism do so?
Thing is, he hasn't been censored yet...
Well, so far the only knowledge we have is his version of events, which the university denies is why they're investigating him.No, he's merely been threatened with investigation for a hate crime. For most people such a threat would effectively be the same as censorship as they would be afraid to say the same thing again. Yes, we know how the regressive left operates.
This bloke looks like a right nob jockey
I was going to say dandy but I refer your description.
Would you rather if people made complaints they weren't listened to?
We don't know what the complaint is yet.Yes, if the complaints are clearly trivial as the complaint was in this particular case.
I was going to say dandy but I refer your description.
So we can conclude:Why are you trying to move away from the agenda you muesli eating do-gooder?!!
I don't know if Buddhism advocates killing those practicing other religions but it's followers in Burma certainly do.
The way the media are telling us about Burma is outright lies. They are literally painting one side of the story because it suits their muslims as victims agenda.
In reality if you do some digging you'll see the Buddists there have frankly had enough and are effectively fighting back. One of my really good friends lives in Yangon and I got the full historical analysis from him a few days ago.
For the record he's German and actually about as much of a leftie as you, so I promise I'm not making this up!
Perhaps he could tell us what's going on on another thread, so that the Robbie Travers affair gets the attention it deservesmakes me laugh when you call me a leftie, I'm a small c capitalist, think it probably tells us how far to the right you are!
So are you going to enlighten us as to what's really going on? It sounds like he is contradicting the UN reports so would be interested to hear what he's saying.
makes me laugh when you call me a leftie, I'm a small c capitalist, think it probably tells us how far to the right you are!
So are you going to enlighten us as to what's really going on? It sounds like he is contradicting the UN reports so would be interested to hear what he's saying.
My views are quite conservative, some would say logical. To the left that basically means I'm literally hitler!
You seem to think the centre is the left too. I have been described as a socialist by posters on here which is absurd and shows how far to the right they are.
Go and read up about it. The bile goes about as far as the BBC comment sections. If you go and read up about and come back here saying you still think the muslims are the innocent victims then you'd be outright lying.
It's totally ridiculous. Just because it's a country the media think no one really knows about, it seems a good oppurtunity to big up the muslims as victims. They started it and have pushed the normally very peaceful Buddists into militant action.
My views are quite conservative, some would say logical. To the left that basically means I'm literally hitler!
You seem to think the centre is the left too. I have been described as a socialist by posters on here which is absurd and shows how far to the right they are.
my initial post highlighted that there is un Buddhist like behaviour going on in Burma after Captain Dart said it was a religion that didn't advocate killing, (which he was correct to say, just isn't the reality as with most religions), are you saying there isn't.
And I have read about it, the UN has described it as ethnic cleansing, you said your German mate who lived their had a different view. I asked you to tell us it.
No doubt the Rohingya deserve what is happening to them and they are both as bad as each other!
Your last paragraph is pretty much it in one.
Well you are certainly not liberal you don't like civil libertarianism which is core to their thinking
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