Academic freedom, freedom of speech, and politics
Recently, there has been an attack on academic freedom and free speech at UBC, by fringe right-wing extremists, under the guise of protecting free speech. They recently escalated this attack from bullshit internal political wrangling (which I’ve been helping fight), to a BC Supreme Court Petition.
The direct link is here, but doesn’t seem to work unless you copy and paste it: https://theccf.ca/wp-content/uploads/Petition-VLC-S-S–252602-filed–7Apr2025.pdf
(I’m guessing they’ve setup some bullshit to coerce you to link to their stupid opinion blog post of the piece.)
I’m so tired. So angry. This is such bullshit.
Let’s talk about academic freedom and freedom of speech.