Vic’s proposed speech suppression code

The FSU reports:

Last week, we were sent draft principles for what discourse Victoria University intends to allow on campus. …

“We should not provide a platform for, nor invite, individuals or groups to speak on campus that have previously demonstrated or are expected to express hate speech as the current law defines…”

So Vic wants pre-crimes where they can decide in advance what someone is likely to say, and ban them on that basis. The left see hate speech as anything that isn’t identity politics, and hence Don Brash was banned from Massey.

No one in NZ has ever been prosecuted for so called hate speech under the current law, so this is why VUW needs to allow them to decide in advance that someone might.

We should not provide a platform for, nor invite, individuals or groups to speak on campus that have previously demonstrated or are expected to express hate speech as the current law
defines or are likely not to support the principles above.

Once again, expected to express.

How about you just let invited guests speak. If what they say breaks the law, then someone can complain afterwards.

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