And I also back the Massey VC on Brash exclusion

I worked at Massey University, Palmerston North, for over 20 years, retiring as an Associate Professor and Director of the newly-founded Centre for Development Studies before moving to the University of the South Pacific in Fiji for another five years. 

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Massey, the university traditions of independent research and enquiry, and free speech are important to me. But so also are the intrinsic principles that underpin these values. 

False speech, hate speech and racism have no place in university traditions.  The view that it is better to give these views "air" so that they can be disputed and refuted has merit, but only limited merit. I respect this option, but think the Vice-Chancellor has taken the better one. (Click on "Read more" below.)


The likes of Don Brash are not presenting the other side of reasonable argument.  

They are promoting values that are the antithesis of  university values -- and about which there can be no debate.


Brash is not too different from the racist Canadians Southern and Molyneux who visited NZ recently.  Noted (https://www.noted.co.nz/)  had this to say about them: 

They  were ...

"... deliberately incendiary shock-jocks who pump out dangerous inaccuracies about indigenous people, ethnic minorities, race science and “white genocide” in the service of a hateful, race-based populism — and their bank balances. 

"But the issue isn’t that they’re saying it. The issue is that they’re finding an audience at all."

Read what the Massey Council had to say about the Vice-Chancellor in this link.