Durham University: The state of free speech on campus
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- čas přidán 9. 12. 2021
- 'I love how they always talk about safe spaces, I mean you're not giving me very much of a safe space being a conservative are you, if you're saying we should be attacked.'
Durham University Student Sophie Corcoran on the current state of free speech on campus.
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The more these young smart people grab back control ,the more hope I'll have in our future.. well done young person !!
I would be embarrassed to say I needed a "safe space " . I haven't needed a " safe space" since I was about two years old . These "students" are mentally feeble . How are they going to navigate real life as fully fledged adults ?
well said, and so true - they make you want to give 'em a slap
Many don't want, or intend, to grow up and face adulthood. If they do get a job they try and manipulate the work environment to suit themselves. For instance some graduate police officers don't want to work evenings or weekends!
Best comment so far. 'Safe spaces are for immature people who are afraid to face the world as it is'
They need to grow up.
They will end up weak and hopeless when real life hits them ..These kids need to take a leaf out of Sophie's book ,then they might have half a chance
They will try to mould society to give them their safe spaces at work and in politics. An intolerant dictatorship is in the making.
Wow You don't hear students speaking out like this enough. Sophie shows there is hope for the future.
@@scinformation7229her life will be made hell from now on for sure.. Poor girl.
I'm 65 , and used to admire students and people with degrees.... Now I just laugh at them .
Just graduated with a degree and walked straight into a PM role, you laughing at me sir?
Er... let's not go TOO far, eh? Most students are not like this at all: it's a highly vocal minority.
I was only listening to a Kathleen Stock podcast this morning. Our universities are lost, taken over by ‘diversity and inclusivity’ cult organisations.
Well done to this young lady. I admire her for standing up for good sense.
Absolutely Susan.
And a bit of omophobia and racism, as GB news caters to 😒
@Scott Scotty i was referring to the guy’s speech people walked out from
@Scott Scotty 'omophobia' means nothing bud. I think it's some dumb hashtag thing. Don't forget that Racist speech is also against several laws and the person who speaks it would be investigated by police, so I doubt it can be classed as such just because some weak students didn't like what they heard. This campus behaviour has been going on for a long time from ill-informed students. The tutors are to blame.
What a courageous beautiful young lady
What a courageous girl. It takes guts to stand up for your beliefs when they differ from the main narrative. When I was young, we wanted to be different and rebellious, we also valued resilience and strength. Pick yourself up, dust yourself down and start all over again.
Sophie will do well in life.
Can we make this girl PM? She'd do a better job than 99% of Parliment.
What if a queen runs for PM and actually wins?
@@typingcat Okaaaaay … 🤔
If only there were more Sophies in universities! Students who are there to learn, not unlearn
Get this lady on gb news, I'd watch, she's brilliant
Yes... hire her... reward people who champion free speech at university... make her the education correspondant.
It’s headhunting season for the voices of reason! Hire her now!
I was thinking the same thing. We need articulate voices from young people like her.
One things for certain she will never be invited on the British Brainwashing Corporation.
Anyone that walks out of a speech at a university probably should not be at university.
agree
I experienced relentless suspicion and harrassment while I was a student in the early 80's, simply because I would not identify with the left wing group think (although as a negative social phenomenon it was not quite as intense and vindictive as it is today). It was actually astonishing how various people (both staff and students) were, rather unsubtly, assigned at different times to put pressure on me to "change my ways". Oh gawd I was even accused of being a fascist, a racist, an NF supporter.....
Ironically, I lived in an area of London where the NF had plenty of support, and when they showed up at the house I shared, banging on the door and ranting, it was muggins that faced them up and told them to feck off....while those lard arsed marxist ideologues hid in the back kitchen like frightened little girls worried in case a brick would come through the front window
@@GOLDSMITHEXILE Ironic to think that in the 1980s, when we were literally living under constant threat of mutually assured nuclear destruction courtesy of the Communists in the USSR, we had communist wannabes in the UK who believed they were valid.
@@lesigh1749 remember the pathetic "you are entering a nuclear free zone" stickers they used to put up in every labour council area, as if brehznev would have taken any notice??.....
Reality is, it was folk like my retired neighbour Chris, serving in the armed forces along with the rest of the NATO commitment, who actually defended the border between the soviet empire and europe, that deterred the communists from invasion. From time to time I take a look at the photos of the lynched security police who died during the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Some of the present-day political elite and their collaborators would do well to learn from that episode
@@GOLDSMITHEXILE Ah yes those CND ones, I lived in Blyth valley and saw those stickers often. Blyth being a port town and Bauxite offloading terminal for the nearby Alcan Aluminium plant, the whole town was glass in any soviet strike, regardless of socialist useful idiot councillors singing The Red Flag.
Sophie is a true superstar! Keep speaking the truth, Sophie
They are still kids treat them as such
But they are not still kids, in the main they are over 18, eligible to vote, drive , join the military. If they do not want to study or engage in debate thet should really question themselves as to whether uni is a suitable place for them!
This girl is bloody brilliant! Stay strong girl. You give me hope!, and god I need that!
I always like strong, feminine and intelligent women.
And it appears Durham University has got ... just "ONE"!
Love Sophie. What a straight talker. More power to her
God bless you GB News, you cover normal stuff that no bodies (Sky, BBC, Ch4, Guardian) are prepared to discuss.
This has been happening to Christians in universities for 20 years. My Christian Union was threatened with being banned because we prayed who would be our leader next instead of voting, as well as holding views about the spiritual importance of the family. The Islamic society was never issued with any threats of closure.
I’m gay and Christian and had some hassle at university - and much more since from insecure gay people - because of my views. I’ve ha threats of violence etc. But no one has cared because it’s a Christian so doesn’t matter.
None of this is new. Christians were the canary in the coal mine with all of this and no one wanted to know. Some of my friends have been physically attacked or had fire works through their letter boxes etc. No one cares. Christian cafe owners harassed by police this year, preachers arrested in the street. But it’s happening to Christians so no one cares.
Human rights out the window with targeted police harassment and false arrests.
@@scinformation7229 Christian newspapers have covered this for years but it's only Christians that read them.
Don't fret dear because all creeds of your type of belief talk utter nonsense in equal amounts.
Islam is not the religion of peace. Christianity is and has become the scapegoats for folk as it’s about turning the other cheek and they hate it. It’s horrid. Rene Girade should be taught.
Sophie means wisdom, enough said she talks common sense. University should be a place for FREE speech 🗯💭💬🔊📢📣🔈
Sophie means "cow blood" in Korean.
@@typingcat Okaaaaay … 🤔
@@typingcat But since it's a Greek name meaning wisdom...
I think many young people are too frightened to go against what they perceive to be the right way to think. Well done GB news
Head of biology saying biology is flawed. Now for a biologist to be able to say that and still be taken seriously shows us how cushioned and privileged our academics are
I like this young lady.
We really need more young people like her!
The wokers can't find the answers on their mobile phones so have to shut down debates.
What an amazing young women whose maturity exceeds that of not only other students but apparently many if not most academics.
This young lady is wholly admirable 👍
Cancel “culture” is the wrong word for this. It’s not cultural at all, except in the sense of a fungus growing in a petri dish.
That's exactly the parallel intended: a bacterial culture. "Cancel culture" is the perfect term.
This young lady will go far, well said .👏👏
They always want it to be more ‘inclusive,’ but only of THEIR views and beliefs, never the other side of the argument.
Can you imagine embarking on the best three-year party of your life, at one of Britain’s most sociable universities, and on Freshers Day you sign up at the Cancel Culture Club hoping to spoil the party for as many people as you can?
Not sure if you've been to uni, but as someone who has I can assure you there is no such thing as a cancel culture club.
@@fogellmclovin6278 - Yes I have, and in my day there were at least a dozen societies worthy of that epithet, Student Community Action being one of them, along with many others of a leftie-woketard inclination. Thankfully in those days most people just ignored them, leaving them to whine and shriek in the corner.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 do you think calling people names such as "wokie-leftard" makes you look intelligent and informed? Just embarrassing if anything.
@@fogellmclovin6278 do you think silencing peoples views you dont like makes you look intelligent and informed? i mean why dont you go the extra mile and put a big sign up outside uni , saying no right wingers, free speech advocates or capitalists allowed. you should get back to your hive insect
@@boofuu3145 when have I ever said that silencing people was a good idea? Putting words in my mouth now.
what a great person that student is......
I'm left wing and I agree with sophie.
Well done to this lady.
Medium rare for me.
@@typingcat Why are on this thread? Do strong women threaten you?
@@Johnny-sj9sj 😂 You're just mad he disagreed with your crush.
Please have Sophie as a regular guest. Her insight into our education system is SO valuable to millions of us who are hidden from this. Jordan Peterson has warned against this, but she makes it so real. We need much more real information and evidence like this!! Please, please, keep giving her a voice…THANK YOU
Good goin' lass and I say that as a left-winger. We're not all loonies, I hope 🤞
Sophie summed up their behaviour wonderfully - selfish. Who are they to declare how we should all think and feel? I wish I’d had a friend like Sophie at uni in the late 90’s when sadly, this type of attitude was all too prevalent - both from staff and students. I just kept my mouth shut, but have always been abhorred by how the far left purports to be all about ‘caring’ but are the absolute worst bullies going. It is quite worrisome how, since my time at uni, this behaviour has gone from quiet and insidious bullying to being maliciously weaponised to silence any dissenting voices. Tow the party line or else! I wonder where we’ve heard that before…and we all know where it leads…
I really admire you Sophie for calling this behaviour out for what it is.
Communism in the university. Simple. This girl needs a bigger platform. Well done 👏
She's amazing seen her on Talk Radio. UNLIKE THE CLOWN MINORITY WHO WON'T BE GETTING A JOB, SHE WITH HER INTELLIGENCE HAS GOT A VERY, VERY BRIGHT FUTURE.
Sorry but there are no bright futures for anyone anymore!
Go Sophie! Question everyone and anything.
Students need to stop playing politics and concentrate on their studies. Their Principal was spot on.
Some students study politics.
maybe i should remove durham from my ucas application
300 students? Did anyone check to ensure they were a) real students and/or b) enrolled at Durham Uni? My money would be on most of them having been bused in.
All Durham Uni students.
Go back to the old way of financing higher education. The students think they pay the piper and ought to call the tune. Result, the patients have taken over the asylum.
Good comment and definitely a factor.
get more of your sensible friends to shout out back at the lefties, loudly.
She is very brave to go to a University these days and stand up for what she believes in. Thank god we have some young people that can still think for themselves and are mature enough to understand free speech and debate and the importance of tolerance. Ironically if anyone is unsafe it’s people like her, the Professor and Rod Liddle who will now have to suffer constant abuse and threats from the same people that claim that they are unsafe for someone stating basic Biology. If bullying like that happened when I was at University the Lecturers would be having a word with you not encouraging it. The world has gone mad!
That girl is fantastic.
I’m sure she represents the majority of students. It’s just that the media is fixated on the looney minority.
It's just that the minority has more influence than they deserve.
@@edenbreckhouse inexplicable isn’t it. And impossible were there an objective media.
@@niguel4438 Objective media? Well, we’ve got the BBC haven’t we? Oh, wait… 🤔
Majority of the students disagree.
@@chocoblocka with what?
AND that is why i would NEVER vote labour...
Intellectual is a good word ask them if they know what it means.
Kudos to Sophie👏👏 but hearing her story puts some meat on the bones of my own experience with Durham Uni. My late wife and I, strong Conservatives in outlook and views [not necessarily the Party], were SO PROUD when our daughter, now 26, went there. She has a photo of her time when she was on the Students Union panel and the whole group of them, all women, were the most unhappy looking bunch I think I have ever seen [I'm 68 yo], plus she seems to have come back with virtually the opposite views of her parents and - dare I say it, she is my daughter after all - a much less pleasant individual than when she went there. I saw an old work colleague the other day, the SJW insanity is being brainwashed into her girls who are at a top 10 girls grammar school in the country.
When I went to university (decades ago), I was lucky enough to get a grant. None of us would have behaved like this because we would simply be kicked off the course. Now that students pay, they feel entitled to dictate terms. The universities need to grow a pair and regain control. Students come and go relatively quickly. Faculty may be there for many years.
Many of them don't actually pay back any of their student loans unless they earn in excess I believe approx £23,500, until then it is under written effectively by the government. Therefore, you and me the tax payer. If after 30 years the debt isn't repaid it is written off.
I'm proud of this girl well done 👏 to her keep fighting for your rights
Ah death by roadman. Who would wish that on someone?
Keep strong Sophie. The majority are on your side.
Not at the university.
Reflecting on other comments, my course was vocational, working with mental health etc. My classmates were all working class. Some were mature students, and had worked in the social care sector. We all had jobs. Myself and a lot of my friends volunteered in our community in kids’ clubs, homeless people’s shelters etc. We wanted to give back to the community - working class - that welcomed us, and we wanted to develop skills. I reckon there are students with the outlook we had and the backgrounds we had. We need to hear more from them.
The guy asking the question about where these kids get these ideas from needs to listen to Jordan Peterson, he explains very clearly where this garbage originates.
Where have all the adults gone? Someone should show these naïve, flower petal, cotton wool world children their place. What happened to respecting your elders?
This young lady will go far 👏👏👏
Maybe those students demanding a safe space should refrain from attending events likely to upset them? Surely students have a choice whether or not to attend extra curricula meetings, conferences, football matches, rowing events, raves, bars, nightclubs, restaurants etc. Sensitive students could arrange to meet up together in a space they all can agree that they find safe? I suggest the local woods - plenty of space there - and they can take their teddy bears for a picnic?
It was a Christmas Meal, not a talk or lecture. There was no prewarning the guest would be making a speech, this is never normally how the formals go.
These weirdos were at university even in the 90s. But doing a science subject you could basically avoid them.
The cross over into STEM subjects is the key issue.
Well said young lady. Never give up.
That the president of the DSU thinks urban drug dealers and delinquents are the secret police of choice to deal with cons shows how detached they are.
Is it all students or just a small minority of activists who are allowed to get their way because most of the other students apathetic to it? For example, from what I understand, the removal of the the portrait of the queen from an Oxford University students common room was down to complaints from half a dozen students, one of which was American, many of the students interviewed didn't really care one way or the other.
This girl needs to let everyone know the names of the culprits basically cancel them in the world of work I'm sure the companies out there would be very wary of hiring these people
“I see from your CV that you had completed a degree at Durham University.“
“Yes“
“Next!“
“What’s your name?“
“Sophie.“
“Sit down and tell us all about yourself!“
What caused it? It definitely started in schools. If you’re kind of crap academically, then you’ve got one clear option to give you some power and influence over others: You jump on the “social justice” bandwagon. Whatever the supposed cause, ethnicity, sexuality, it doesn’t matter. What will follow will certainly be some brief attention, and likely some agency over someone else’s life. Here’s the thing, - no one can dispute you, it’s too risky for them.
The reason she's not part of the woke club may have something to do with her accent.
The fury to cancel and intimidate only reveals panic, panic not just that their thinly held ideas may be challenged, but also that the whole university sector is imploding and their precious degrees will afford them nothing.
Respect to this smart young woman, very much needed
Question being, will this madness ever reverse its course, or will people continue tolerate such nonsense? Is the tide ever gonna turn?
Sophie. You're a breath of fresh air. Rally your troops and counter protest..
GB news please get this young lady back on! 100% one to watch!
My niece has just started at Durham, good to know that there are some level-headed students too. I hope that she has heeded all the anti-communist propaganda that I post on the family Whatsapp group.
Sophie Corcoran is a gem, intelligent and savvy, absolutely love her.
Shout out to the road men out there doing an unappreciated but necessary job
When all students who don't agree get together and threaten to leave uni, you'll see how fast they'll change their mind. Bacause no students IA no money for uni
Free Speech.
If they had any ability for self thought, they would realise that a "safe space" would be to not go to places where they would have to listen to others with alternative ideas or, heaven forbid, FREE SPEECH
Perhaps they could look up the word "safe" in an online dictionary, assuming they know what a dictionary is :)
I'd argue that even if you're defending Rod Liddles hate speech as free speech, surely the students leaving were also using their freedom of speech and movement to leave? Freedom of speech doesn't mean absence of consequences.
Obviously the students were free to walk out, as they did, but that fact does not make their actions any less pathetic. If these students had had the courage of their convictions they would have heard Liddle out and then debated with him at the end to show him and the other students that their ideas were better than Liddle's. By marching out and making claims that Liddle made students feel unsafe they merely demonstrated that their ideas are bad ones that do not stand up to scrutiny.
@@lewislee9201 'pathetic'? The students,some of whom I know personally, were attending the event expecting it to be a pleasant easy-going Christmas formal, not a debate. If the roles were reversed and right wing students had walked out on someone defending trans rights you would be applauding them. Liddles speech was made with the full intention of offending and insulting as many as possible, and discomfort was a reasonable response, particularly considering many of the attendees fit into the minorities he was attacking. Expecting a bunch of barely-adults to engage in a heated debate over controversial topics that affect them at a Christmas party that was not marketed as anything but light hearted event is unreasonable, and the fact that Liddle was favoured by senior staff in the room whom may have authority over the education of students who could have argued back makes it unreasonable further. There were also students who challenged liddles ideas,but they were similarly insulted and dismissed.
@@ameliemitchell3091 I cannot think of a time when "right-wing" students have walked out on someone speaking in favour of trans rights. Conservatives actually favour true free speech over mob rule, more fool them, perhaps. I would not "applaud" anyone who staged a walk-out, whatever their political persuasion, or that of the speaker. It was reported - in the Guardian, not the Mail - that the walk-out in this case happened at the beginning of the event, before Liddle had made his speech, so these students had judged him before hearing him. I don't know how you would describe that, if not with the word pathetic. I certainly get your point about it being a Christmas dinner and therefore an event that should have been entertaining for everyone. If Ron Liddle's speech was as uplifting as you stated it to be, then it would have been preferable that he had been invited to speak at a more appropriate kind of event. I somehow doubt, though, that such an event would go ahead at Durham University, with so many students ready to show, in your chilling words, that freedom of speech doesn't mean absence of consequences, by demanding Tim Luckhurst's sacking.
@@ameliemitchell3091 The right don't walk out though. We debate you and win... every time. That's why you destroyed freedom of speech on CZcams and promote censorship and stunts like this. Right wing people don't do this.
@@ameliemitchell3091 Finally someone who actually has the right context to the situation. Completely agree with you.
Siobhan is great! I hope she gets plenty of support from normal thinking students and free speech will triumph over Marxist Nazi behaviour.
What the hell is the University doing to allow bullying like this ??? The whole body of staff should be sacked as incompetent as they are not fit to teach or control behaviour .
Is fatherlessness the problem. Is there any research on it?
You're supposed to be at University to study, revise and pass exams. It seems students these days think they're there to cry and whinge about anything and everything.
Kids education is now secondary. Teachers view themselves, not as tutors, but as political influencers/saviours
I just can't believe anyone with a brain would be a conservative, especially since 2016.
GBNews needs to invite the leader of Durham University's wokes on the show. We all need a dose of offence.
This girl needs to learn that you don't win arguments by insulting the opposition. Civil talk would be more persuasive.
So glad there are still some sane students in our education system.
Far too.many poorly educated children are getting into uni.
Maybe we should educate them better... Just a thought.
I'm 50 and this is jist unbelievable
Well said S C, common sense as always
Keep strong Sophie & never change because of a nasty group of individuals.
Well done Sophie stay strong the world needs many more like you
Could we be looking at a young lady who will brig fourth the SILENT MAJORITY to stand up to the mouthy minority. If I was a teacher at a university I would be thinking of three things. 1. Worried about what is Comming down the road towards me. 2. Where the nearest Job Centre is. 3. Give up any idea of being a teacher again... "If you soe the wind you reap the whirlwind".....
Well done sophie keep up the good work for FREEDOM
1 year up north and she's already calling a lass a lass... Good on you, lady...
How can you have 50% of young people going to University ,does not make sense where are all the top paying jobs for these young people who have spent years of there life studying and building up debt ??Even Tony Blair's son has said this is absurd .
Time to close the university and reassess the applicants. Do not tolerate any form of racism from all sides. They are there to be educated. All the kids deserve a education. Don't let them decide
She's spot on 100 per cent
when i was at college there was always someone shouting Socialist Worker 20p but never gave a reason to buy it so i thought i would. I shouted back Socialist Worker and chips 25p
Ha ha! And when they graduate, their most oft used phrase is “Do you want fries with that?“
Teachers should only teach facts, not opinions or political ideologies.