‘You made offensive comments’: All about Rob Ivinson's appalling disciplinary hearing. 

Straight man doesn't like Gay Pride? So what? I'm a Gay man and now dislike Pride marches. Assad not a good guy? Its a political opinion he's entitled to hold it.

The universities are utterly lost. Defund.

This is an absolute shocker. I'm an alumnus of Exeter and I can't imagine that something like this could have happened when I was there (in the early-mid 2000s.) Things must have gone insane in a relatively short space of time! As an aside, I think it's a mistake ever to admit to anything in a situation like this. I think Mr Ivinson should have issued a flat denial, said the person/s must have misheard him through the wall. He could then have fought fire with fire, so to speak, by making some explosive counter allegations against the creepy individual making the complaint - which the uni authorities would then also have to investigate. We shouldn't be in this utterly mad situation, but if we are, it's often best to try and play the system against itself, IMO.

Shame on the University. This needs more exposure.

Orwellian comparisons are overused, but this case is scarily akin to it.

What kind of Nazi BS is this…I feel for this guy.

Shame on Exeter "University", how dare they!?! The "girl next door" should have been shamed for tattling on her neighbor, this is insanity.

Hopefully this will never happen again and the people responsible will be punished

He needs to sue for defamation. Especially after losing rhe paid placement.

A similar thing happened to me. It will not stop in the forseeable future. It is disgraceful and the proportion of people in society who do this will not diminish by the day.

Found four people who shared this to X. Followed them.

with great respect you should not have engaged in this process without adequate legal support . Sounds like Left wing authoritarianism ... the process is the punishment .

No 1st amendment in England.

The actual Gestapo

I always thought universities were the places where freedom of speech, different opinions & ideas were encouraged , when did it change ? Why did it change? Why have we let it change?

It’s hard to even imagine such things happening right now… Nazi Germany, China during the cultural revolution (or even today), the Stalinist Soviet Union come to mind

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *🇬🇧 Rob Ivinson introduces himself as a UK-born individual who grew up in America and returned to the UK to study philosophy at Exeter University.* 00:32 *📅 Rob details the emotional burden of his aunt's terminal illness during his first week at Exeter, which significantly affected him.* 01:37 *🚪 He recounts an incident where campus night patrol confronted him in his room for making offensive remarks, which a neighbor reported.* 02:19 *🗣️ Rob mentions his assertion of privacy and freedom of speech when confronted, suggesting a clash with the enforcement staff's approach.* 02:48 *🏫 He received a notice for a disciplinary hearing, indicating that his neighbor and another witness had reported him.* 04:00 *🔄 The initially friendly demeanor of a university staff member changed abruptly to an aggressive tone at the hearing, contributing to a hostile environment.* 05:12 *📜 During the hearing, Rob was confronted with accusations regarding his views on veganism and gender fluidity, which he found absurd.* 06:19 *📢 He clarifies a misreported statement about Assad, highlighting issues with how his comments were documented and interpreted.* 07:57 *🚫 Rob was not allowed to read the complaints againsthim, emphasizing a lack of transparency and fairness in the process.* 09:33 *🔊 He attempted to differentiate the complaints about noise from those about content, but was denied, showing a conflation of issues in the disciplinary action.* 11:48 *⚖️ He was found guilty and placed under a disciplinary contract that threatened his continuation at the university if any further incidents occurred.* 12:15 *💸 The disciplinary outcome also led to the retraction of a financially beneficial resident mentorship, adding significant personal loss beyond the hearing's immediate scope.* 13:24 *🏘️ Following these events, Rob withdrew from campus life and moved to a village away from the university, indicating a long-term impact on his academic and personal life.* 16:07 *🗨️ He reflects on a generational divide at the university, critiquing the inability of younger students to engage with challenging ideas, highlighting a broader cultural shift in academic environments.* Made with HARPA AI

What is most worrying is that this young man feels compelled to justify his opinions. What he said to his friend in the privacy of his own room is noone else's business. This is how far we have travelled from any notion of free speech. I am not defending or attacking his actual opinions because my view and everyone else's view is irrelevant.

That wow

This decision gave his neighbor the power to decide whether he met conditions. And encourage her to listen in. And instead of having her work out her concerns with him directly, it teaches her to go straight up the chain of command over disagreements.

Sounds like a case of bullying

It's called a star chamber procedure.

does your neighbour sit with her ear to the wall?

We live in a passive aggressive matriarchal commisar basically

A group of women in positions of authority did this? I don't believe it, this never happens all the time.

Suggests poor soundproofing if conversations can be heard through walls.

When was this?

Check out Jonathan Haidt. He is a social psychologist and author who has been studying and speaking out about this. There are some really informative videos of his talks on RU-vid.

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This guy is equating his neighbour being exposed to his loud ranting late at night with a girl in distress for listening into a conversation she was not invited to be a part of. No. You being loud makes your conversation everybody's business, not private. Saying that you're taller than average doesn't mean you can't control your voice volume. Or, if you want private conversation and you're very liud then go to the sports field and yell over the phone to your Aussie mate about what you hate. Noise disturbances include the content of the noise. Someone yelling at their spouse might cause way more distress to a neighbour trying to sleep than happy party sounds. He keeps claiming he has a right to say what he wants on the privacy of his own space, but he is the one crossing the noise barrier, saying it outside that private sphere. I just read this guy as being shocked to find out that his arrogance followed by an apology doesn't prove to be met with approval in the UK. Interesting how he keeps refering to ' these two women ' who are holding him captive to a university disciplinary action. And at the outset of the story he referred to the niceness of the interviewer who then turned cold on him. He even admits his noise was ' the battering ram ' but doesn't see how that served his private speech a warning????

This crap has to stop.