Freedom of speech is a terribly precious thing, which we should all cherish. So let’s not waste it on people with whom we disagree. That seems to be the considered view of those assorted, privileged genii at Oxford University, whose student’s union banned from its Freshers Week a satirical magazine which it feared might cause offence. The magazine is called No Offence and is produced by students.
Some incalculably humourless, self-righteous little berk, said: ‘We at OUSU do not wish to have an event which is intended to welcome new students to Oxford associated with a publication making light of racism, sexual violence, and homophobia in an attempt at satire’. No indeed. Oxford thus joined the University of East Anglia in academia’s mania for banning stuff for stupid reasons. The UEA banned sombreros, in case they offended Mexicans. So tender and perpetually fraught, these little students, aren’t they?
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