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Freedom of Speech disabled at QUT

Academics at Australian university QUT speak out against a PhD Thesis project entitled "Laughing at the Disabled" and are hauled up before a disciplinary hearing for publishing their views in the n...  
 
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joyce69er (7 months ago) Show Hide
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global dawning you are a retard. your title ' freedom of speach disabled at QUT' just goes to show what a spastic you really are. There is no such thing as freedom of speach in Queenslad or Australia for that matter. This country does not have a constitution or bill of rights. Wake up out of dreamland, wipe the drool off your chin and realise what country you are in! Australia not the US...
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What's wrong, per se, with laughing at the antics of disabled people? I wear hearing aids. I recall a Fawlty Towers episode with an old lady who wore a hearing aid but never had the battery on because it ran it down. Damn funny episode. Not cruel at all, but laughing at someone's disability and how they deal with it. All humour isolates out some behaviour and ridicules it.
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Hiya I am Posting these videos to my site as well, not here one I just started last week... One to allow this very thing to take place on a global scale I hope one day soon.

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When you read both sides of the story it becomes apparent that the university is properly enforcing it's regulations, and that there has been a case of mis-conduct. This is quite separate to the issue of the worthwhileness of the candidate's project. That's bureaucracy for you.
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I am a PhD candidate and I understand why Vice Chancellor Coaldrake is trying to force the whistle blowers out of the university whilst protecting the researchers that breached the academic code of ethics. He has to protect the university at all costs. His own job is on the line. If he concedes that such an appalling ethical breach occurred on his watch, he would be sacked quicker that he could say "any disabled people to laugh at here?" Serious legal advice would have been sought on this one...
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i was once told by a disabled person that, people are devided into 2 groups. Those that are disabled and those who are not yet disabled, because at some point in every ones life they will have problems whether they have an accident or from old age
mattopian (1 year ago) Show Hide
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wow, you cant just say that in a way people can understand? your a wanker
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