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[FSU Research Director Radomir] Tylecote takes issue with the argument behind these demands that says the British public must be “mentally inoculated” and that censorship would provide for this “inoculation.” On the contrary, he says, preventing free exchange of information would result in a “mental quarantine.”
Didi Rankovic, Reclaim the Net, 3rd December 2020.
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Meanwhile, Toby Young – whose Free Speech Union is currently defending the rights of Will Knowland, the Eton teacher sacked for daring to question the school’s woke “toxic masculinity” agenda – reports of further horrors inflicted on the school by its dripping wet Head Master Simon “Trendy Hendy” Henderson.
James Delingpole, Breitbart, 3rd December 2020.
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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union which is supporting Mr Knowland, said: “The reason the headmaster is losing the confidence of the staff and the boys isn’t because they’re hard right reactionaries who’ll die in a ditch to defend every last tradition. They just don’t think the headmaster should be trying to impose woke ideology on the school and punishing anyone who dissents from it. Eton of all places should be encouraging its pupils to think for themselves, not shoving politically correct views down their throats.”
Camilla Turner, The Daily Telegraph, 1st December 2020.
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Mr Knowland will have the support of the Free Speech Union, whose founder Toby Young said: “This is a landmark case. Schools must be places where children are taught all sides of these big questions and allowed to make up their own minds, not indoctrinated with the latest political orthodoxy.”
Richard Marsden, Sarah Harris and Ross Ibbetson, The Daily Mail, 29th November 2020.
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The London-based Free Speech Union, issued a letter of support. “Acquiescing to the signatories’ demands would only exacerbate the climate of fear that Prof Abbot describes, and which countless other academics have also noted. That other University of Chicago faculty have corroborated Prof Abbot’s claims regarding this climate of intolerance – but are afraid to express their support for him publicly – means that the University of Chicago is already failing to uphold its cherished Principles.”
William A Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, 29th November 2020.
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Toby Young, general secretary of the Free Speech Union which is supporting Mr Knowland, said that the case “is and always has been about free speech”. He added that the dispute is over the purpose of a good education and whether it is to “equip children with the knowledge and skills to think through the big questions facing our society or to just teach them the ‘correct’ view”.
Camilla Turner, The Daily Telegraph, 30th November 2020.
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Douglas Murray, an old Etonian […] told The Telegraph that Eton had “discredited” itself by failing to allow the free exchange of ideas between students and lecturers. “The main thing is that the prerequisite for a good education is to make the students in your care think and there’s no sure-fire way of doing it but the best way is to introduce them to ideas they otherwise wouldn’t or haven’t encountered – as far as I can see, this teacher was merely doing that,” he said.
Camilla Turner, Phoebe Southworth and Christopher Hope, The Daily Telegraph, 28th November 2020.
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His appeal will be heard on Founder’s Day, December 8, by a panel chaired by former Cabinet Minister Lord Waldegrave, himself an Old Etonian. Mr Knowland will have the support of the Free Speech Union, whose founder Toby Young said: “This is a landmark case. Schools must be places where children are taught all sides of these big questions and allowed to make up their own minds, not indoctrinated with the latest political orthodoxy.”
Sarah Oliver, The Mail on Sunday, 29th November 2020.
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As the Free Speech Union and others have pointed out, the expanded hate-speech categories will make life very hard indeed for newspapers, radio, TV and online media who choose not to play safe and avoid controversy.
Andrew Tettenborn, Spiked, 23rd November 2020.
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Toby Young, who created The Free Speech Union in February, said his organisation is inundated with students “begging for help”. “They thought they’d applied to a university, but they’ve ended up in a Maoist re-education camp,” he added. “If they say anything that challenges the prevailing woke orthodoxy – if they dispute the idea that trans-women are women, for instance – a complaint is made to the authorities and they find themselves being put through dubious, quasi-legal procedures that resemble struggle sessions during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. If they don’t throw themselves at the feet of their inquisitors and denounce their white privilege, they’re liable to be kicked out and reported to the police for ‘hate speech’.”
Max Aitchison, The Mail on Sunday, 22nd November 2020.
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