Abhishek Saha
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Professor of maths @QMUL • founder member @lucaf_london, co-convenor @AFAF_QMUL, advisory board @ComAcFreedom, BFSP • individual liberty, autonomy • views mine.
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Joined September 2013
Just one month left to submit proposals for this special issue on free speech and academic freedom! Please do share with anyone for whom it may be of interest. https://t.co/sPTwpifF30
heterodoxacademy.org
This special issue invites contributions that examine the contemporary landscape of free speech and academic freedom in higher education
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One of the saddest things about social media is how efficient it is in turning moderates into extremists.
@HistoryBoomer Wanye's journey from reasonable moderate to outright fascist is one of the saddest turns this hellscape of a site has seen
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The relevant questions are about the social purpose of sex segregated institutions, not the metaphysics of gender identity. https://t.co/uaSPm0WXbG
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The real, sinister reason academics keep cancelling each other - (as explained in When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…)
standard.co.uk
Scarcely a week goes by without lecturers being cancelled, says Toby Young. Why?
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"As liberalism seems to be on the decline, at least in the short run, there’s never been a better time to delve into Pinker’s articles and books."
Steven Pinker (@sapinker) on the battle between Trump and Harvard. We talk about the disclosure rule that the Trump administration wants regarding race and test scores. As I tell people, people like Pinker and Summers should be on your side. The Trump admin just goes too far.
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We'll be at @acadofideas #BattleFest next weekend (18 /19 Oct). Debates on ✅war of the sexes ✅burqa bans ✅tyranny of campus wellbeing ✅online dating ✅rise of snitch culture ✅academic freedom +++++ Join us & have your say on many topical, challenging issues of the day!⤵️
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@libsoftiktok @ring @ICEgov @DHSgov Nothing is more American than warning people that the government is coming. Did you never learn about Paul Revere's midnight ride? Source: https://t.co/wXBNU1K69b (Archive: https://t.co/XjGGT9t5vf)
https://t.co/4Mo1tUl4st
Received from a follower in Chicago. I’m told this is going on all day on @ring. Ring is complicit in doxxing ICE agents’ live locations. This potentially helps illegals evade arrest and puts agents in harm’s way. This is not ok. @ICEgov @DHSgov
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Like a lot of other issues, this one isn't black and white. Yes, the Compact asked for transparency, merit and accountability. But it also asked for caps on foreign enrolment and coercive loyalty oaths to American values. Anna Krylov's excellent post in link.
MIT didn’t stand up for principle. It protected the system that made reform necessary. The compact asked for transparency, merit, and accountability - values universities claim to already uphold. The only sweeping thing here is the hypocrisy.
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🧵1/ The UK has dodged a bullet that could have introduced a blasphemy law by the backdoor. This is a well-written and important judgement. In this thread I highlight some passages from it.
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: MAJOR VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH! HAMIT COSKUN WINS HIS APPEAL AGAINST ISLAMIC BLASPHEMY LAW The Free Speech Union is delighted that Hamit Coskun’s appeal has been successful. Hamit was convicted under the Public Order Act for burning a copy of the Koran during a
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I am so glad that @SpeechUnion and @NatSecSoc appealed this case. I am proud that I donated. And I am delighted that the right result was reached by the judge; a brave man, Hamit Coskun, was exonerated.
The architects of today's legal success are @SpeechUnion and @NatSecSoc. They fought for the process and achieved a great success in the name of freedom of expression. As an individual, I bow with respect to those who contributed to this success.
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I am so glad that @SpeechUnion and @NatSecSoc appealed this case. I am proud that I donated. And I am delighted that the right result was reached by the judge; a brave man, Hamit Coskun, was exonerated.
The architects of today's legal success are @SpeechUnion and @NatSecSoc. They fought for the process and achieved a great success in the name of freedom of expression. As an individual, I bow with respect to those who contributed to this success.
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9/ The Prosecution have therefore failed to prove either that Coskun’s conduct can properly be found to be disorderly, or that it was within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby. /End
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8/ The Courts should be wary of allowing the criminal reaction of one person to make a criminal of another for exercising their free speech rights.
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7/ The reaction of an intolerant Muslim person who saw the Quran burn cannot be determinative of whether the burning itself was disorderly conduct.
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6/ Coskun's conduct was not aimed at a person and it took place in a location that is reasonable for a political protest.
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5/ A Heckler's veto cannot be tolerated. Speech must never be declared unlawful solely because of reactions from intolerant others.
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4/ Free speech is never absolute: but the line is context-dependant.
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3/ One of the precious rights in a liberal democracy is to express our own views and read, hear and consider ideas without state interference. The price we pay for that is having to allow others to exercise the same rights, even if that upsets, offends or shocks us.
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2/ The criminal law is not a mechanism that seeks to avoid people being upset, even grievously upset. The right to freedom of expression must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.
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🧵1/ The UK has dodged a bullet that could have introduced a blasphemy law by the backdoor. This is a well-written and important judgement. In this thread I highlight some passages from it.
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: MAJOR VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH! HAMIT COSKUN WINS HIS APPEAL AGAINST ISLAMIC BLASPHEMY LAW The Free Speech Union is delighted that Hamit Coskun’s appeal has been successful. Hamit was convicted under the Public Order Act for burning a copy of the Koran during a
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