" 'We feel you (Houle) owe an apology to Ms. Coulter and, even more importantly, you owe the University of Ottawa community an assurance that the administration of the university strongly supports freedom of expression, academic freedom and views the role of the university as fostering and defending these values,' officials with the Canadian Association of University Teachers said this week in a letter to Houle."
In every Canwest Newspaper in Canada.
That should put Mr. Houle's panties in a knot.
WFDS
As unimpressed as I am with Coulter and Levant, I am almost as disgusted by the amateurism of Houle and the University of Ottawa who keep on giving the gift of cluelessness of the left to the ruthlessness of the right. We will pay for this visit for a long time to come.
ReplyDeleteI don't get it. I read the letter. Houle never stated that he approved of the law against hate speech. He just warned Coulter that she could run afoul of it, albeit in a condescending manner. (But treating her as a moron is not unreasonable.)
ReplyDeleteIn fact she has said things in the past that, if she repeated them in Canada, would technically run afoul of the hate speech law.
I myself do not approve of the law, because I think in general it has the potential to do more harm than good, but it is the law.
Have you ever had lunch with any of those CAUT types. They don't believe in "freedom of speech" for anyone but their own self-important Selves. They practise "death by boredom" on their fellow tablemates & others. And they're very prissy.
ReplyDeleteAnd they're very prissy.
ReplyDeleteHa!