Fighting for free speech at Cambridge | Parallax Views with Professor Arif Ahmed

[@angelagreen242]

That was excellent. I have a great deal of time for Professor Ahmed, a very reasonable and measured person. The students could certainly learn a lot from him, the recent debate on the right to cause offence featuring both Professor Ahmed and Kathleen Stock was a shocking indictment of university education

[@spitfirerulz]

I appreciate the measured and balanced views from Professor Ahmed in this particular video. This is from someone who identifies more with progressive sentiment! For instance, I disagree with the interviewer's use of the term "transgenderism", which implies that the biological reality of gender dysphoria is an ideology (it simply is not). But this should not be silenced in university if it makes them (or me) uncomfortable. Either of us could be wrong and we need to be humble about that possibility.

[@nanashi7779]

Well, I'm glad that you recognise you could be wrong

[@radicalrodriguez5912]

Christianity, not the eNLiGhtEnMEnt, is what matters most. Without it, the West is lost.

[@markkavanagh7377]

And India would be lost without Hinuism and China would be lost without Buddhism and Japan would be lost without Shintoism. The Divine has many faces.

[@Bucketheadhead]

I think you’re sledging uphill to suggest that a Bronze Age religion is what will save modern society.

[@radicalrodriguez5912]

@@Bucketheadhead That bronze age religion is what raised the (fallen) men who made modern society.

[@Bucketheadhead]

@@radicalrodriguez5912 no it’s not, it’s the rejection of those beliefs called the enlightenment which made our modern western world today. If it hadn’t we’d still be in a position where people burned alive for suggesting the earth is not the centre of the universe, and many other horrors.

[@radicalrodriguez5912]

@@Bucketheadhead Wrong. Christianity, not the so-called enlightenment, is the reason the masses, the average man, had a real commitment to Truth. Without that widespread commitment, there’d be no scientific method. Christianity is everything that was good about the West. Where Christians hew to Truth, the Godless only know power. See 20th century Europe.

[@dougmasters4561]

some of this is due to the consequences of the enlightenment. The enlightenment gets too much credit than it deserves, its not even necessarily enlightened. The name itself is pretentious hubris. That all these things are belong to enlightened people, which is us, and is due all such credit.