{"id":8619,"date":"2018-05-10T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8619"},"modified":"2025-03-25T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:25:52","slug":"555-guests-lindsay-shepherd-gad-saad-david-haskell-rick-mehta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8619","title":{"rendered":"555 &#8211; Guests: Lindsay Shepherd, Gad Saad, David Haskell, Rick Mehta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/555-Shepherd-Saad-Haskell-Mehta-168x100.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay Shepherd, Gad Saad, David Haskell, Rick Mehta\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8623\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20180510-justRIGHT-555-GUESTS-LindsayShepherd-GadSaad-DavidHaskell-RickMehta-onCAMPUS.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>As learning institutions, universities were once considered to be the environment where a diversity of ideas was both encouraged and tolerated.  Today, that diversity of ideas and opinion has been abandoned in favor of a \u2018diversity\u2019 of racial, sexual, and cultural \u2018identities\u2019 that make the discovery of reality almost impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Just ask Lindsay Shepherd, Gad Saad, David Haskell, and Rick Mehta, each a member of Canada\u2019s academic university community who attended last weekend\u2019s Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (SAFS) annual General meeting.<\/p>\n<p>As our guests on today\u2019s show, you will learn how each has been outspoken against the climate of fear and censorship that has become so ingrained in campus culture.   Each is an advocate of free speech and a free exchange of ideas.  Each has achieved a level of notoriety because of challenges by, and to, the \u2018politically correct\u2019 forces on their campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Each is empowered by debate and knows that their opponents are weakened by debate.  Whatever their views on \u2018left\u2019 or \u2018right,\u2019 they all recognize that it is views pointing in the right direction that are most under attack on university campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Unavoidable in every controversy, as always, is the polarity between Left and Right.  Also unavoidable is the conclusion that when it comes to freedom of speech, those who defend it are always Just Right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/555-topics\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/555-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As learning institutions, universities were once considered to be the environment where a diversity of ideas was both encouraged and tolerated. Today, that diversity of ideas and opinion has been abandoned in favor of a \u2018diversity\u2019 of racial, sexual, and cultural \u2018identities\u2019 that make the discovery of reality almost impossible. Just ask Lindsay Shepherd, Gad <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8619' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,145,59,28,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-education","category-free-speech","category-latest","category-society","issues-education","issues-free-speech","issues-universities","personalities-jordan-peterson","personalities-lindsay-shepherd","guests-david-haskell","guests-gad-saad","guests-lindsay-shepherd","guests-rick-mehta","category-12-id","category-145-id","category-59-id","category-28-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8619"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8627,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8619\/revisions\/8627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}