I also learnt that 'free speech' is allowed up to the point you want to say something different…

litician called me… point I was going to need to write it down, because it was, so far, this experience of surrealism. I didn’t believe that by coming to the UK, which is a country that doesn’t have a First Amendment, it’s a country that is thought of as being liberal, and democratic, and protects free speech. It has a concept of academic freedom. I didn’t think that an article I wrote five years earlier in a very different place would matter. But it did, a lot. In fact, a very prominent politician called me a ‘Holocaust denier’ and he said I should be fired. …
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I also learnt that 'free speech' is allowed up to the point you want to say something different form those who hold power, whether in academia or the social/political spheres of influence. Of course, the situation is not much different in the countries that the West labels as despotic regimes.
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