Speech that is very extreme, and arguably harmful, should be promoted ahead of speech that isn’t. He later changed his view, because of free speech. The guy in this image was expressing a view that politicians who break non-binding international treaties should be hung.ĭavid Garrett once wrote a book supporting the reintroduction of the death penalty in NZ for those convicted of murder. DPF thought it should be “cancelled” yet he put it up on his blog (full credit there). This guy was expressing a view, albeit a stupid and rather extreme one (. She said some of them were born without the humour gene. She did say that in future if I was in the same situation again calling the staff member a f*wit and questioning their biological status would not be a good option. That didn’t go down well and I ended up before the Head Of Department who fortunately had a more understanding view when all was explained. We both told him to pull his head in and butt out because he didn’t know the situation, took it out of context, and it was none of his bloody business. So this staff member got on their high horse and went ballistic. That was a rather mild insult because we’d been good friends for years and had both served in the NZDF. I have white skin and my friend is quite dark. Some idiot Pakeha staff member went off at me after they overheard me calling a female fellow Māori student a black arse. When I went back 10 years later the wokeness had well and truly set in and they had no sense of humour. It was most infectious in the humanities and I was more than once pinged for my non PC attitude. When I was there 22 years ago finishing my undergraduate degree the wokeness was starting to infest the place. They want to eliminate thoughts they disapprove off. This is of course the intent of many of those behind cancel culture. You might even say the beacon for the world in such matters.” And Cambridge has been a beacon and so has Oxford. This is a battle for the heart of universities. Thought by its nature is either free or it doesn’t exist. And there’s no thought without free thought. Herein lies the real danger of cancel culture, particularly at universities, whose primary function is arguably to nurture thoughts and help students learn to think for themselves: “The issue is there is no distinction between free speech and free thought. Peterson, invoking his professional experience in clinical psychology, believes that “if you can’t say what you think, soon you won’t be able to think, because mostly we think in words”. “Sorry, it’s a bit of a sore spot,” he says, taking a drink of water.īut it’s also a great deal more than that to him: “This isn’t a battle between two viewpoints, it’s nothing that trivial.” His voice rises in emotion as he recalls the indignity of finding out on Twitter about his Cambridge lecture series, subsequently reinstated, being cancelled. Cancel culture is personal for Jordan Peterson.
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