… of vicious fanatics and their role in campus life.
… [A] working group …will be formed from university vice-chancellors and other academics [to] consider how to achieve the balancing act of preventing campus extremism without undermining the right for students and staff to hold free debates.
The group will “consider how universities can work with all relevant organisations, nationally and locally, to ensure the protection of freedom of speech and lawful academic activities, whilst safeguarding students, staff and the wider community from violent extremism”.
… Among the issues to be considered will be invitations to outside speakers – and whether controversial views should be banned…
Controversial isn’t quite the right word, implying as it does two sides to a question. There is no Should All Homosexuals Be Slaughtered? controversy, is there?
We invited Mr X to campus so that he can help our students understand why, as opposed to what some people argue, the answer to civilization’s problems lies in the mass murder of gay people…