I wanted to touch on three largely-unrelated points, two on the controversy, and one of what Don Brash was apparently going to say in his speech:
First, very briefly, much of the story has been written in terms of Massey’s Vice-Chancellor denying Don Brash the right to speak on campus. As far as I can see, Don Brash doesn’t have any particular “right” to speak on campus, any more than you (assuming “you” aren’t a Massey student) or I do. In that sense, the issue shouldn’t be about Don Brash – although that is what Professor Thomas tried to make it about – but about a Massey student society’s own freedom; the freedom to invite anyone they wish (operating within the law) to speak on campus. That should probably be where the focus is, including adding the question of whether Professor Thomas thinks she should also have the right…
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