Lots of admiration to both speakers for standing up to bullies, for their and our sanity. I read ‘Colonialism’ a few months ago, found it very interesting and informative, recommend it to my friends. As a Soviet Union ‘survivor’ I value freedom of speech very much, speaking up for it every chance I can. As a private piano teacher, I can afford this luxury and not to be scared of being deplatformed. More respect to people who take risks! 👏👏👏
I recently read Colonialism, a moral reckoning, while on holiday in Kenya. Fascinating book made all the more interesting by being in a modern post-colonial nation. Anyone who has any interest in colonial history should give it a go. Huge respect for Nigel Biggar.
nation: a population, normally residing in the same geographic region, in which most all the citizens share a common race, religion, language, and culture. This word is VERY often used erroneously in the stead of the term “country”. Therefore, it is highly suggested that one refer to the Glossary entry under “country”, in order to understand the distinction between a “country” and a “nation”. Unfortunately, an enormous percentage of the population has been indoctrinated by leftists to regard NATIONALISM as a malevolent ideology, when in fact, the adherence to a nationalistic framework is beneficial to both the citizenry of a nation and to the world as a whole. Multicultural societies are constantly fraught with conflicts, due to the incompatibility of competing ideologies and practices. Imagine, if you will, that the million most conservative men from an Islamic nation in Middle-east Asia, such as Afghanistan, and the million most feministic women from a liberal country like Canada, were taken to some barren island and asked to establish a new civilization. How harmonious and prosperous do you believe such a mismatch of persons would be? TOTALLY discordant! Furthermore, a variety of national identities is intrinsically beneficial, for nobody would want to travel to another nation if that nation was fundamentally identical to their own nation, except to experience the unique geographical features, diets or climates. I, for one, am glad that I can visit a nation such as Japan in order to experience its unique culture and language, then choose to visit or reside in nations such as Ireland and Egypt in order to experience the unique languages, food, art, dance, cinema, music, religion, and customs of those two nations. Of course, if I decided to reside in a nation where the language and culture differed radically from my own, I would need to adapt. For example, if I were to migrate to a Middle-east Asian nation, such as the one mentioned above, I could not openly criticize the Islamic faith (and especially its founder) without putting my very existence at risk. Upon moving to the Philippines over a decade ago, I found it EXTREMELY easy to acclimatize to its culture, since it is very much a Westernized nation, not dissimilar to the country of my birth, The Southland (that is, “Terra Australis” or “Australia”, as it is known in the Latin tongue). “Nation” was first recorded in the thirteenth century, from the Middle English, from Latin “nātiōn-” (stem of “nātiō”), meaning “birth” or “tribe”, equivalent to “nāt(us)” (past participle of “nāscī”, meaning “to be born”) + “-iōn-”. “-ion” a suffix, appearing in words of Latin origin, denoting action or condition, used in Latin and in English to form nouns from stems of Latin adjectives.
Unforunately, Chris Patten is due to step down as Chancellor at the end of this academic year. Hopefully his replacement will continue to maintain academic integrity at Oxford. No doubt the mob will have different plans.
Just came across one of Pete Boghossian, street epistemology featuring an gaggle of university teachers ganging up on him for posing hypothetical questions. Some universities clearly don´t like their orthodoxy questioned in any way.
Academics often have great understanding and reason, but it is glaringly apparent that they have almost no capacity for judgment outside their narrow range of expertise. Judgment cannot be learned from a book. I've seen gutless academics with a lower capacity for judgment regarding morality and fairness than any child I played with when I was a child. They have been all about warping reason and logic to be in line with sick and warped theosophy. They need to be supervised by ordinary working people who are known to play well with others.
Sal grover knew it would go this way. She said from the start that they will need to go to the high court. Thats à good thing because it will change the law with possible international implications.
Lots of admiration to both speakers for standing up to bullies, for their and our sanity.
I read ‘Colonialism’ a few months ago, found it very interesting and informative, recommend it to my friends.
As a Soviet Union ‘survivor’ I value freedom of speech very much, speaking up for it every chance I can. As a private piano teacher, I can afford this luxury and not to be scared of being deplatformed.
More respect to people who take risks! 👏👏👏
I recently read Colonialism, a moral reckoning, while on holiday in Kenya. Fascinating book made all the more interesting by being in a modern post-colonial nation. Anyone who has any interest in colonial history should give it a go. Huge respect for Nigel Biggar.
nation:
a population, normally residing in the same geographic region, in which most all the citizens share a common race, religion, language, and culture. This word is VERY often used erroneously in the stead of the term “country”. Therefore, it is highly suggested that one refer to the Glossary entry under “country”, in order to understand the distinction between a “country” and a “nation”.
Unfortunately, an enormous percentage of the population has been indoctrinated by leftists to regard NATIONALISM as a malevolent ideology, when in fact, the adherence to a nationalistic framework is beneficial to both the citizenry of a nation and to the world as a whole. Multicultural societies are constantly fraught with conflicts, due to the incompatibility of competing ideologies and practices.
Imagine, if you will, that the million most conservative men from an Islamic nation in Middle-east Asia, such as Afghanistan, and the million most feministic women from a liberal country like Canada, were taken to some barren island and asked to establish a new civilization. How harmonious and prosperous do you believe such a mismatch of persons would be? TOTALLY discordant!
Furthermore, a variety of national identities is intrinsically beneficial, for nobody would want to travel to another nation if that nation was fundamentally identical to their own nation, except to experience the unique geographical features, diets or climates.
I, for one, am glad that I can visit a nation such as Japan in order to experience its unique culture and language, then choose to visit or reside in nations such as Ireland and Egypt in order to experience the unique languages, food, art, dance, cinema, music, religion, and customs of those two nations. Of course, if I decided to reside in a nation where the language and culture differed radically from my own, I would need to adapt. For example, if I were to migrate to a Middle-east Asian nation, such as the one mentioned above, I could not openly criticize the Islamic faith (and especially its founder) without putting my very existence at risk. Upon moving to the Philippines over a decade ago, I found it EXTREMELY easy to acclimatize to its culture, since it is very much a Westernized nation, not dissimilar to the country of my birth, The Southland (that is, “Terra Australis” or “Australia”, as it is known in the Latin tongue).
“Nation” was first recorded in the thirteenth century, from the Middle English, from Latin “nātiōn-” (stem of “nātiō”), meaning “birth” or “tribe”, equivalent to “nāt(us)” (past participle of “nāscī”, meaning “to be born”) + “-iōn-”. “-ion” a suffix, appearing in words of Latin origin, denoting action or condition, used in Latin and in English to form nouns from stems of Latin adjectives.
Excellent
Unforunately, Chris Patten is due to step down as Chancellor at the end of this academic year. Hopefully his replacement will continue to maintain academic integrity at Oxford. No doubt the mob will have different plans.
Just came across one of Pete Boghossian, street epistemology featuring an gaggle of university teachers ganging up on him for posing hypothetical questions. Some universities clearly don´t like their orthodoxy questioned in any way.
Academics often have great understanding and reason, but it is glaringly apparent that they have almost no capacity for judgment outside their narrow range of expertise. Judgment cannot be learned from a book. I've seen gutless academics with a lower capacity for judgment regarding morality and fairness than any child I played with when I was a child. They have been all about warping reason and logic to be in line with sick and warped theosophy. They need to be supervised by ordinary working people who are known to play well with others.
Signing an open letter that is intended to damage a colleague is an easy and lazy way to show one’s virtue.
They're winning; Roxy Tickle was declared a woman today.
they've won they're just now letting you know
Sal grover knew it would go this way. She said from the start that they will need to go to the high court. Thats à good thing because it will change the law with possible international implications.