Freedom of Speech: Does it have its limits? Keith Windschuttle

"Speech is only genuinely free when it's objective, when it's critical, when it's nonpartisan, when it's governed solely by what the evidence and reason define as the truth."

Debate at Macquarie University August, 2008

Keith Windschuttle is an Australian writer, historian and ABC board member.
Author of books such as-
'The Killing of History' (1994) [a critique of postmodernism in history],
'The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847 (2002) [a look at how revisionist historians have rewritten Australian history using subjective method] and
'The White Australia Policy' (2004) [Again claiming an inaccurate account from contemporary historians].

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[YAHWEHtoHELL]

Who is it he refers to as the independant thinker in 400 BC? Thisididy? Phisidites?

[SmotherTeresa]

@YAHWEHtoHELL Thucydides!

[natkoyama]

Surely an artificially created EXCESS of carbon dioxide should be considered pollution, just as an excess of white blood cells is cancerous. Also, considering how capitalism is going lately the most dangerous, bad idea of all could be saying that the merits of capitalism are just as obvious as the earth revolving around the sun.

[MalcumTurnbull]

thanks for upping Smotha!

[MalcumTurnbull]

@YAHWEHtoHELL - His name is ancient Greek for independent fister.