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Speaker 1: Now have you caught up on the drama between the

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Speaker 1: academics and David Seymour. Can I just just respectfully suggest

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Speaker 1: that the academics need to harden up. They are upset

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Speaker 1: because David Seymour has published a victim of the day

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Speaker 1: on social media and it seems to be doing it

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Speaker 1: reasonably regularly, and it's featuring academics, and it's featuring academics

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Speaker 1: who are upset about the Regulatory Standards Bill, and then

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Speaker 1: it's mocking them for that. Now they're not happy. They

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Speaker 1: are accusing him of breaching the Cabinet Manual. They say

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Speaker 1: that his posts are unethical, unprofessional, potentially dangerous to those

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Speaker 1: who are targeted, and that he's trying to silence them

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Speaker 1: thereby proving his point that they really are victims, aren't they.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm surprised at how thin skinned these academics are, Like,

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Speaker 1: let's be honest about it. None of us like to

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Speaker 1: be skewered. It can sting, but it kind of comes

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Speaker 1: with the territory, doesn't it. If you are in public,

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Speaker 1: and especially if you choose to put yourself in public,

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Speaker 1: which these academics are doing by choosing to, for example,

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Speaker 1: opinion pieces criticizing the bill, then they are inviting a

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Speaker 1: response and they cannot dictate what that response is. And

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Speaker 1: actually I could be wrong, but what I've seen doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem that harsh. It just seems like a right of reply.

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Speaker 1: But tongue in cheek. Context is important here as well,

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Speaker 1: because this David versus academics spat has actually been going

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Speaker 1: on affair bit. David Seymour, in my personal opinion, has

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Speaker 1: been given a bit of a rough time by some academics.

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Speaker 1: One in particular, who I think is the worst offender,

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Speaker 1: has in the past said that she hopes he doesn't

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Speaker 1: have kids and then called his government a fascist, white

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Speaker 1: supremacist government, which certainly makes his response look adult. Now,

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Speaker 1: if academics are and I'm not saying it's the same

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Speaker 1: academics here by any stretch, but collectively, if they want

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Speaker 1: to hand it out, they have to also be prepared

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Speaker 1: to suck it up. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive,

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