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[Zezti]

The big hate filled Tory bully again undermining the efforts of footballers who simply want equality. Rashford to step up and put them back in their place once more?



The closet racist gammon heads in the comments though...

 

[Blue 1]

The big hate filled Tory bully again undermining the efforts of footballers who simply want equality. Rashford to step up and put them back in their place once more?



The closet racist gammon heads in the comments though...

Stannis will do it:

 

[Black Belt Jones]

The big hate filled Tory bully again undermining the efforts of footballers who simply want equality. Rashford to step up and put them back in their place once more?



The closet racist gammon heads in the comments though...

A revealing slip of the tongue there - I don't support protest. No no I mean I don't support that particular protest.

Reckon it's clear where the home secretary stands there.

 

[davek]

What a self-regarding tool.

In the teeth of a catastrophe (which his policies exacerbated), and this is what he chooses to post about.

 

[dead_soft]

What a self-regarding tool.

In the teeth of a catastrophe (which his policies exacerbated), and this is what he chooses to post about.

Come on, he was only the sixth Chancellor ever to have gone to his school, how could he ever have expected to overcome those odds

 

[dead_soft]

‘Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly’

‘Cool, I’d like to talk about how Britain has had some shadiness in its past, and I’d rather not invite people I class as bigots to speak at my club’

‘Oh no, you’ll get fined if you do that’

When will people see if there is any culture war going on it is from the right? They are in power, they control the institutions, the create this situation.

Not liking some statues or thinking 1970s sitcom racism should come with a warning is not the same as what the Tories and their willing centrist serfs want to do.

 

[davek]

‘Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly’

‘Cool, I’d like to talk about how Britain has had some shadiness in its past, and I’d rather not invite people I class as bigots to speak at my club’

‘Oh no, you’ll get fined if you do that’

When will people see if there is any culture war going on it is from the right? They are in power, they control the institutions, the create this situation.

Not liking some statues or thinking 1970s sitcom racism should come with a warning is not the same as what the Tories and their willing centrist serfs want to do.

That stands about zero chance of being implemented.

 

[davek]

Come on, he was only the sixth Chancellor ever to have gone to his school, how could he ever have expected to overcome those odds

I posted this a year or so ago from the Guardian. It shows the type of background that Sunak and others come from is far from being a liability:

How did British Indians become so prominent in the Conservative party? | Neha Shah

Since Thatcher’s day, the Conservatives have held the community up as a model minority, says activist and researcher Neha Shah

www.theguardian.com

 

[summerisle]

God preserve us.

 

[Moomin]

 

[Black Belt Jones]

‘Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly’

‘Cool, I’d like to talk about how Britain has had some shadiness in its past, and I’d rather not invite people I class as bigots to speak at my club’

‘Oh no, you’ll get fined if you do that’

When will people see if there is any culture war going on it is from the right? They are in power, they control the institutions, the create this situation.

Not liking some statues or thinking 1970s sitcom racism should come with a warning is not the same as what the Tories and their willing centrist serfs want to do.

Cancelling or banning people from speaking at a university as they have views you disagree with is something out of a postmodern novel, like beyond irony - a contradiction in terms of what the word university means. It's a scrub loser mentality that has to be faced up to - clearly the idea of actually handing out fines is not serious, it's more a signal to university administration to be less indulgent of the junior thought police.

tbf the most egregious example of this in the UK (Germaine Greer) was stood up to by the university VC at Cardiff - she gave her talk there IIRC.

 

[Walken]

‘Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly’

‘Cool, I’d like to talk about how Britain has had some shadiness in its past, and I’d rather not invite people I class as bigots to speak at my club’

‘Oh no, you’ll get fined if you do that’

When will people see if there is any culture war going on it is from the right? They are in power, they control the institutions, the create this situation.

Not liking some statues or thinking 1970s sitcom racism should come with a warning is not the same as what the Tories and their willing centrist serfs want to do.

The insincere freedom of speech campaign and phony culture wars are deeply damaging

 

[dead_soft]

Cancelling or banning people from speaking at a university as they have views you disagree with is something out of a postmodern novel, like beyond irony - a contradiction in terms of what the word university means. It's a scrub loser mentality that has to be faced up to - clearly the idea of actually handing out fines is not serious, it's more a signal to university administration to be less indulgent of the junior thought police.

tbf the most egregious example of this in the UK (Germaine Greer) was stood up to by the university VC at Cardiff - she gave her talk there IIRC.

The fact you’re mentioning an event from
6 years ago that still went ahead suggests that this isn’t the large scourge it’s reported to be?
Student Unions are welcome to choose who they want to speak at their events and who they think don’t require a platform to promote views they disagree with. Maybe they could invite more people they disagree with, maybe they already do, maybe it’s not as big a deal as it’s made out to be.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

The fact you’re mentioning an event from
6 years ago that still went ahead suggests that this isn’t the large scourge it’s reported to be?
Student Unions are welcome to choose who they want to speak at their events and who they think don’t require a platform to promote views they disagree with. Maybe they could invite more people they disagree with, maybe they already do, maybe it’s not as big a deal as it’s made out to be.

Yes that's probably true, it's not a huge deal in practice here. It also reeks of jarg - in that it's not something that has grown genuinely at a grassroots level in UK campuses, rather it's a cultural import from the US. It is so repellent, however, that it doesn't hurt to spell out a clear position.

Student unions and clubs are free to invite whoever they want, that is obvious, it is their club. That has never been the issue - it is how other clubs and the student body within the university get to react if they disagree with a speaker's views. Peaceful protest, direct confrontation and rebuttal on the floor of the debating chamber, publicising it to society at large etc are all part of the university fabric and have been for hundreds of years. Cancel culture is something else.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Four dead is "kurfuffle" says our idiotic idiom of of Prime Minister Boris, I suppose when you are presiding over one highest pandemic death tolls, what do death numbers mean.

Johnson: US democracy strong after Trump impeachment 'kerfuffle'

The UK prime minister also says he has an "excellent" relationship with new President Joe Biden.

www.bbc.co.uk