[...] When even left-leaning academics like feminist social critic Professor Camille Paglia are shaking their heads that “universities are an absolute wreck”, the jig is up. When professors are recorded screaming and threatening mob violence at journalists, academics rebel en masse at the very idea of teaching a course on Western civilisation, and peer-reviewed papers by professors are banished from the academic record under threats of violence, the threadbare veil of “academic freedom” is torn asunder.

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