UNC AFSA Presents An Evening with Douglas Murray - Free Speech in the West
It is no secret that free speech on college campuses is under attack. Students and professors alike experience pressure to either avoid or hyperfocus on controversial topics with limited room for honest and rigorous debate. What does this tell us about the future of Western civilization? Is the university no longer a marketplace of ideas, questions, argument, and discovery? Are the more difficult topics only an opportunity for complaint, or do we have something to be grateful for from our inheritance? Where do we go from here?
UNC Alumni Free Speech Alliance brought best selling author and associate editor of The Spectator, Douglas Murray to the UNC campus on February 23, 2023 to discuss this and more with UNC Chapel Hill students. Please enjoy the Zoom recording of UNC AFSA's first event.
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Douglas Murray is a modern hero!
Fascinating talk by Douglas Murray. One.of the great thinkers and historians of these times in my opinion.
Keep talking Douglas!
Douglas: "A society in which your deepest feelings can be trodden upon is the only society worth living in."
@moonlightray8493
Жыл бұрын
"If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
@saimbhat6243
Жыл бұрын
Douglas's whole profession is based saying things which most people find offensive. And yearly he gets dozens of invites, a nytimes best selling book and probably millions of dollars for saying things which many people don't agree with. So, it is a bit rich, coming for a person like douglas to say he or views like him are "silenced". LOL All he is complaining about is people not liking him for his views. Well, if people dislike you for your views, maybe onus should be on you to figure it out. But if he is trying to sell that he doesn't have "freedom of speech", Nah, he is just spinning it too much. If people dislike him, it doesn't mean they are silencing him. He can speak and he does speak wherever he is welcome. He is literally crying about why people are not liking him. Nobody is silencing him, people just are not interested in his views. So what should douglas do ? Get mega loudspeakers and start shouting at people who don't want to listen to him. Same goes with sam harris, he gets buckwild when people criticize him. Still, he gets hundreds of invitations and millions of dollars. But somehow he still doesn't have "freedom of speech" because people are criticizing his view.
@Earthmuffin78
Жыл бұрын
@Saim Bhat I think your missing the point. It's not about him. It's about freedom of speech for all of us. But if you don't see that then I pity you
@Albtraum6212
Жыл бұрын
@@saimbhat6243
@TheWhitehiker
Жыл бұрын
I get his reference, but the sentence sounds a bit overdone.
Douglas Rocks. As always.
Brilliant, I love listening to Douglas Murray.
Douglas is great!
Minute 1:04:00 is so important. The process of demoralization. That is the point: to demoralize everyone. Douglas is on fire, per usual.
@junkscience6397
Жыл бұрын
Criticize, trash, tear down, destroy. That's what they do the best. They're really, really good at it. What comes after the destruction...when they actually "construct" their "new societies"? Not so much...
@roundapplepizza738
9 ай бұрын
@@junkscience6397 what comes after? Elimination of wines from the countries they built.
Thank you Douglas!! The World will be à better place if we understand well the idea of preserving the Western world before is too late..
@rgf6576
10 күн бұрын
Vors avez raison: nous sommes à 11:59 ( malheureusement, concernant ce que vous avez suggéré).
"Banned compelled speech" - tremendous, more of this.
My favorite part of this whole video is seeing Douglas be so friendly and courteous with the autograph at the end. What an upstanding guy.
❤DOUGLAS MURRAY OUR NEW PRIME MINISTER PLEASE 🙏 PLEASE PLEASE ❤
@roundapplepizza738
9 ай бұрын
Sorry, he’s in the United States now we got him! Lol
Douglas is always a breath of fresh air.
ALL of your ideas MUST be publicly debated,
"It is true that words can wound. It is one of the Delights of them" - Douglas Murray ❤ absolutely love this! 😅
Douglas taught me to stay calm and use the words “illiterate” and “uninformed”. This is much better than emotional name calling.
@ronaldmcnuggets8964
Жыл бұрын
How has that been working out? Lots of right wing victories last few decades?
@roundapplepizza738
9 ай бұрын
@@ronaldmcnuggets8964actually yes, have you seen the AFD in Germany? Or the Netherlands booting out their antiwhite peo Immigration antiFarm pro diversity PM. The pendulum is swinging back. The next 60 years will be beautiful.
@unisophia
Ай бұрын
good point! his ability to insult without losing his face is indeed remarkable and worthy of imitation :)
Thanks for this. Douglas Murray is worth listening to.
28:00 - Gross... Deconstruction is a terrible tool in the hands of the unethical and unwise. Thank you Douglas for these lectures - such an important message to be heard by this generation. And thanks a bunch for giving it to old Malc. You're a real Gem sir.
@TTFN55
2 ай бұрын
I don't know if you're still there but your comment on Douglas Murray's appearance at UNC made me actually laugh out loud. Especially given the fact that I JUST re-watched The Munk Debate in which Douglas clearly prevailed over the haughty Malcom Gladwell. May he forevermore be known as Malc! You're pretty gemmy yourself.
Loved this , it's so vital that these conversations keep going. Thank you, Douglas .
It is amazing that most American history is quite well documented, yet, gets completely ignored and replaced with conjecture.
I love Douglas!
@sallyharrison8265
4 ай бұрын
Me too!!
An interesting moment in our time. I hope its been kept somewhere.
Very interesting. I'm a big fan .
Love DM always stop to listen or read his work.
Douglas is always so interesting. Kudos for the students for speaking up at all, and with meaningful questions.
Well done Douglas
Douglas says everything thing a good person thinks , but he says it so eloquently 😊
Great stuff Dougy. Starts @ 3:50
The biggest shame of the matter is that the general public no longer has been taught enough history or cultivated the skills of logic and critical thinking to even question the contents of such writings or validity of such claims, and have absolutely no awareness of their vulnerability to such propaganda.
English Hero 💖
Kudos.
Amen
Visited UNC during my college search days, such a pretty campus. Like many American colleges, the classrooms are as ugly as the buildings are beautiful. (Ended up going to W&M, it was the same.)
These talks need to be happening everyday on every campus and on every news show. Thank you to Murray for shining a light on this bastardisation of facts and history; it is a deep perversion. When Murray read the actual quote by Jefferson at 26:55 it blew my mind. The fact that anyone could use that to suggest Jefferson was racist is just ridiculous (moreover, even if he was, that is to be expected in his time!). Jefferson was also, by the way, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, etc. haha The uninformed in society need to stop engaging in Presentism. Full stop!
@unisophia
Ай бұрын
the claim that was based on that misquoted line shows everything that’s wrong with modernity: somehow people ignore the fact that in order to count to 3, you need first to pass through 1 and 2, while each of these steps brings something new that allows progression, without which no progression would be possible. therefore, even if someone was a racist, but managed to push the discourse even just a baby step forward towards abolition, that person and his contribution should be celebrated, not denigrated. but people are looking at the past with puritane eyes, expecting revolutionary reforms that couldn’t be made at the time, because history doesn’t work this way, it doesn’t progress by leaping from point 0 to point 10. if it did, tgere would be no such thing as history. it’s like getting out of the womb as an ancient old man and right away dying from an old age, while calling it life :) lol
Bad things happen because good people do nothing ( rough quote )
What escapes me is, exactly what is it that Kendi, Hannah-Jones, and DeAngelo think that they are accomplishing? What is the long run objective? How will we (the collective we) be better off in the future because of what they did and are doing? What is their vision for the future? After the destruction, what then?
@MrBuffalo2
Жыл бұрын
Their game..because that is what it is,must be ended..the growing groundswell against them must gain momentum&their public jobs must be made redundant..
@roundapplepizza738
9 ай бұрын
Watch Barbara learner specters a video on multiculturalism in Europe. She claims that she and her tribe are flooding Europe with immigrants. And that’ll be good for Europe. (it is not) In fact, these people are doing this across all white countries and only white countries. The “anti-racists” are doing this to disenfranchise Whites in the countries they built. They want Whites to be the minority. They want revenge. Remember the founding fathers were clear in 1790. Immigration act stated only free whites of good character could be naturalized citizens. A Jew, passing as white and Zionists unraveled the immigration law that protected whites in 1965 with Hert Celler Act. Over 60 years Whites have become the minority in the cities they built and will be a minority in leas than 15 years in the USA. What do you think will happen then?
@Ibanez-nt5rq
5 ай бұрын
I think their only aim is to make as much money from their grift. They don't care about the future of anyone else.
@roberthumphreys7977
5 ай бұрын
@@Ibanez-nt5rq Yes, that is certainly part of the story. I think some forensic accounting might be in order for at least one of them. Maybe.
Realy good ! Fantastic !
Standing on the shoulders of giants... and pissing on them! IMHO
47:45 Good ideas lose once no one stands up for them
I hate to be pedantic but the quote about the lie going around the world is not one of Mark Twain's, it is from CH Spurgeon (1859). Great video - rational, polite and full of reality. Thanks.
Ironically Douglas is the public intellectual that he laments are shrinking in number. Would only that other American Universities had orators such as him or at the very least invited them to speak on their campus and protect him while doing so. A good start would be having their students read his books, then discuss and debate if necessary. Douglas has never shied away from a debate unlike the charlatans he quoted in his speech.
@roundapplepizza738
9 ай бұрын
Universities are much different now than what they were 30 years ago. When the USA was a majority White country we went to the universities for solutions. On 1965 a Jew passing as White and Zionists opened the US borders to everyone unraveling the Founding Fathers’ 1790 immigration act that said only “free Whites of good character” could be naturalized as citizens. Now anyone from any country can live in the USA based on Hart-Celler Act. Add affirmative action meaning the smartest Whites were passed over for grants, scholarships & admissions to Universities, higher learning is filled with low IQ diversity. Diversity under a democratic republic means each group is fighting for resources for themselves rather than what is best for the country what is best for the majority. So racist antiWhites are not required to defend their theories. These same people are also in media & government. No longer working on truth and facts but emotion, demanding rights are restricted or eliminated. It will get worse, Whites are minorities in 9 states & the District of Columbia. In one more generation whites will be a disenfranchised minority in a country they created and built. Search “kill YT” or “all I want for Christmas is Wh ite g3n0coD” on Twitter if you want to see the future. Now, Watch Barbara Lerner Spectre’s video on why she and her people are forcing diversity only into White countries. Whites have a right to their country, to not share their inventions and to live with and protect only Whites. Whites who are the only race in human history to end legal global slavery & who built the modern world are forced to share everything they invented their countries their universities everything with NOTWhites. At the determent to their own children & people. Yet all other races have their countries protected from ethnic cleansing.
that moment you realize these historical fallacies we keep hearing about, are coming from a place of utter confusion about the world, that history happened in a different time to the present, with totally different access to information. This is made concretely hard by the fact we no longer teach objective history, but political theory, which is shoehorned into every subject and conversation.
The woman who spoke at around the 54 minute mark sounds oddly like Red. Didn't expect that in the Murray talk.
Lovely chat, Is there an audience?
starts at c. 4.00.
'Connor........two Ns and an O' 😂(you have to watch until right to the end to get this)
Put this with the first Reith Lecture by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2022 and you're on your way ,plus read JS Mill who is by the way very easy to read as so lucid.
This should have hundreds of thousands (or millions of views), not the cat videos...
@timeweston
Жыл бұрын
I suspect algorithmic malfeasance
@bdidaho9572
Жыл бұрын
Yep, and a general stupor in the American public.
@junkscience6397
Жыл бұрын
@@timeweston Bingo. Now: Shhhhh!!!
These are your charmed years…
Go to the raucous party.
Can you tell me when this was filmed please?
@harringtonshaw1865
Жыл бұрын
2/23/23
@BadNews885
Жыл бұрын
@@harringtonshaw1865 Thank you. A lot of people post years old vids so it gets confusing
@BadNews885
Жыл бұрын
@@Peterbrendanalbert I wasn't wearing my glasses at the time..
@roundapplepizza738
9 ай бұрын
@@BadNews885oofff been there, had the same question
date ? Place ?
@harringtonshaw1865
Жыл бұрын
2/23/23 at UNC Chapel Hill!
@coecovideo
Жыл бұрын
@@Peterbrendanalbert it is now, ( probably thanks to my comment ) no 6 days ago.
Don't agree with you on everything but have to admit you are so cute
I’ve found that a lot of the information that is omitted, reverses the meaning. As soon as you dig further, the truth comes out.
Where's the sound guy!
No one applauded after his opening monologue! V strange .
@xlockedbmw
Жыл бұрын
Pasting from my response to another comment asking about this: A few things all at once. The microphones being used are extremely directional, and it also seems that they are applying a high threshold filter to avoid ambient noise. Similar to using "auto adjust microphone sensitivity" on Discord and setting the minimum threshold very high. Not to mention that it appears to be quite a small audience, you can hear little bits where the noise comes through.
Oh, Mr. Murray... if you can't fathom why there's no 'cross partisan support' for examining 'how to do elections better', then you really haven't been paying close enough attention! 😵
Douglas. Can't believe you left out Hitch in your opening remarks.
1:00:50 - hurting and dining on other animals for our pleasure! Insanity.
oof tough crowd
@xlockedbmw
Жыл бұрын
Pasting from my response to another comment asking about this: A few things all at once. The microphones being used are extremely directional, and it also seems that they are applying a high threshold filter to avoid ambient noise. Similar to using "auto adjust microphone sensitivity" on Discord and setting the minimum threshold very high. Not to mention that it appears to be quite a small audience, you can hear little bits where the noise comes through.
1:02:15 - Agree with Murray on most things he said but I WILL NOT ALLOW THE BENGAL FAMINE LIE TO GO UNANSWERED; WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR MURDERS - I'd refer him to Dr. Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize winner in Economics), himself a Bengali, on this subject.
@KiatHuang
Ай бұрын
Not true. The Bengal famine like many before was the result of terrible environmental conditions that devastated crops, that would have otherwise fed the population. If you really want to champion a man-made famine then the Russian removal of crops from Ukraine that caused the killed millions during the Holodomor of the 1930s is a good example.
I like Mr. Murray, but the belief that good ideas will eventually win out is like the Christian’s saying one day Christ will come to judge the living and the dead.
@wendyjones5853
Жыл бұрын
But that's exactly what Christ will do,? God has given the judgement over to Jesus to perform this under Christ's Millennial reign of a thousand years ,when the dead will literally be resurrected ( brought.back to life , ,after all the dead are still living to GOD , He has a great memory , and the dead are only sleeping anyway ,,look at the word Cemetery it just means sleeping place , interesting !
@carlodefalco7930
Жыл бұрын
@@wendyjones5853 🫣 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 🙄
@jjohanesson9139
Жыл бұрын
Your statement proves his point
@MrBuffalo2
Жыл бұрын
It's nothing like it...
@MrBuffalo2
Жыл бұрын
Good ideas come from among other sources, Christianity.
WOW, what's wrong with the audience?
@junkscience6397
Жыл бұрын
not miced up?
It makes me sad that Douglas Murry is Single. I think he would make some guy a wonderful husband. Shame so much of the LGBT Community hate him. If I was single I would so ask him out.
@mabit
9 ай бұрын
@@jasonbarnett9750 That wasnt the point. the point was so many gay people would avoid associqtion with him as he will be seen as toxic by many in the community. almost no gay people are on board with the alphabet people yet are scared shitless to speak up
Was this a totally unresponsive audience?Were they silenced?Did they not understand Murray?is he too clever for them? Very strange lack of murmur, laughter, acknowledgment, understanding, agreement or otherwise.
@jasonwatterson5739
Жыл бұрын
I think given the questions, the way they are delivered and the warmness in Douglas's responses I believe the audience may have been purposely faded out for most of it.
@aaronwilcox4376
Жыл бұрын
Maybe it's simply politeness. This was a talk/speech, not a live rock concert.
@xlockedbmw
Жыл бұрын
A few things all at once. The microphones being used are extremely directional, and it also seems that they are applying a high threshold filter to avoid ambient noise. Similar to using "auto adjust microphone sensitivity" on Discord and setting the minimum threshold very high. Not to mention that it appears to be quite a small audience, you can hear little bits where the noise comes through.
why did they edit out the applause these egg heads have no sense of occasion
@xlockedbmw
Жыл бұрын
Pasting from my response to another comment asking about this: A few things all at once. The microphones being used are extremely directional, and it also seems that they are applying a high threshold filter to avoid ambient noise. Similar to using "auto adjust microphone sensitivity" on Discord and setting the minimum threshold very high. Not to mention that it appears to be quite a small audience, you can hear little bits where the noise comes through.
@mojo2968
Жыл бұрын
@@xlockedbmw ok thanks for the reply
Did I miss his Harvard appearance?
@spencerstevens2175
Жыл бұрын
UNC system >Harvard
I don't believe a single thing this man says. He makes assertions about the enemies that they haven't made and is therefore much worse than he makes his enemies out to be. Murray is a ridiculous figure and this is the main reason the people he accuses of not debating him and his cohort is because it would be complete waste of time because Murray et al know nothing except he hates his enemies and will say anything to discredit him. He and his cohort would be undertaking a debate in the worst possible bad faith. Why would anyone want to engage with that? Listening to him lie for an hour and a quarter and merely to attack his enemies if extremely painful but one must find out the detail of his drivel.
@mickberry164
2 ай бұрын
He didn't lie. Where did he lie? I saw none.