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Yeah, no doubt it's not nearly as simple as preach from the lecture hall lectern and successfully convince everyone in the room. Thank goodness. The internet is a massive help these days too, there is plenty of material online so that people can inform themselves properly about all sides of a...

It is a problem. This goes back to something I pointed out earlier. I am technically on the right. But if Universities were dominated by right wing lecturers and students were banning left wing views being expressed on campuses en mass, I would oppose that. But you, because those with the...

I completely agree, it's frankly extraordinary and very reassuring that there seems to be a massive bias in University faculties and yet the attitudes amongst students seems to be much more evenly split.

We are certainly becoming more intolerant. You mentioned institutions like Oxford University as something like a counter to a left-wing skew in universities. Take a look at which views/speakers/debates have been banned from Oxford. The intolerance isn't divided each way, it's one way, even at...

https://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/nine-10-uk-universities-free-speech-restrict-rankings-joseph-rowntree-cardiff-ediburgh-newcastle-a7577381.html The Free Speech University Rankings in full Red – universities that have banned and actively censored ideas on campus: Abertay Aberystwyth...

Eight in ten British university lecturers are 'Left-wing', survey finds https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/03/02/eight-ten-british-university-lecturers-left-wing-survey-finds/ Liberal professors outnumber conservatives nearly 12 to 1, study finds...

I think the most important thing is that we can disagree and still be civil and have dialogue (which is actually essential) and we can disagree and still listen to (and hear) each others concerns and view points without unfairly judging each other. I also agree about protecting the genuinely...

Ok, I confess I did think you meant me (since it's been mostly just me on the that side of the discussion), glad I haven't been taken as "very" right, because I'm actually not. If anything I think I'm a "little" right, with some sympathy for the left. It's one of the reasons I wish the left...

Who would you say is very right wing in this thread?

It's always worth trying to reason with people, and it's rarely if ever worth name calling.

They are just two different routes to the same destination.

I'm not talking about an individual being attacked for a particular thing they said or did (rightly or wrongly), at least that kind of thing is precise and can be thrashed out (like calling Nigel Farage a racist for his immigration poster). I don't agree with JC's politics, but I wouldn't...

I should also point out, I say what I say as a former Lefty myself.

I can show you accusations of racism and sexism and hatred of the poor being made in the public debate by public figures. Can you show me the same where "libtard", "snowflake" or "cuck" have been used in the public debate by public figures? The left has a problem which the right doesn't have...

"The Conservative Party is a blatent racist party" - Owen Jones. "Yet after 10 years of watching the Tories behave like lying pig-f***ing scumbags who hate the poor there are some of us who are genuinely surprised to find out they are, in fact, lying pig-f***ing scumbags who hate the poor."...

I'm looking at what is considered an acceptable argument to make, in public, by people in the public eye, on both sides. It is considered acceptable on the left to call someone who is pro-life "anit-women". It is not considered acceptable on the right to call someone who is pro-choice...

Well I gave my examples. If you are on the left, say you want to maintain high immigration numbers, or say you want to increase public spending. What do you get accused of by the other side which is remotely equivalent of being called a racist sexist hater or the poor? It seems to me that the...

That isn't the point. The point is how do you frame the motivations of those you don't agree with. Where is someone who defends abortion coming from? They say they are coming from the perspective that they want to defend the rights of women. Those who disagree with them on the issue do not claim...

Well apparently your assumption is that racism, sexism and homophobia are tolerated by (at least) one side of the political spectrum, that's what your post suggested. Ok, so no examples of words, how about examples of the actions which speak louder than them then?