Campus censorship "an epidemic"

[GaelicFox]

Shut down the shitty poly's and put the money towards decent training schemes. Thousands of people with worthless degrees is pointless,when many trades are crying out for skilled workers.

Every application form i read seems to involve a degree in ,sociology or business studies etc... they go straight in the bin

Bingo !

I'll vote for you

[Alf Bentley]

Shut down the shitty poly's and put the money towards decent training schemes. Thousands of people with worthless degrees is pointless,when many trades are crying out for skilled workers.

Every application form i read seems to involve a degree in ,sociology or business studies etc... they go straight in the bin

Bingo !

I'll vote for you

 

 

Can we now retire the cliche "chip off the old block" and replace it with "drop off the old claridge"? 

[Rincewind]

An interesting short video from John Cleese on Political Correctness. Wasn't sure where to put it but he mentions University Campuses.

 

https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom/videos/10153596674478527/.

[Guest MattP]

Good god, these people shame a generation of students.

 

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/white-men-barred-from-equality-conference-2pxg8wsgv?CMP=Spklr-_-Editorial-_-FBPAGE-_-TheTimesandTheSundayTimes-timesandsundaytimes-_-20160608-_-News-_-486733951-_-Imageandlink&linkId=25331814

 

Straight, able-bodied white men who represent college and university lecturers from minorities have been banned from sessions at an equality conference because they do not have a “protected characteristic”.

The University and College Union decided at its congress last week to allow only members who “self-identified” as gay, disabled, female or an ethnic minority to attend the sessions at the conference in November.

Emma-Jane Phillips, a disability campaigner on the union’s equality committee, tried to have the motion overturned. “Equality reps are passionate about equality regardless of their own situation,” Ms Phillips, a maths lecturer at Northumbria University, told Times Higher Education. “To infer that someone does not understand someone’s situation just because you don’t tick a box is insulting. It is ridiculous that people who regard equality as their life can’t attend our equality conference.”

Ms Phillips, who serves on the union’s disabled members’ committee, said that some equality reps would have to lie about a protected characteristic if they wanted to attend the sessions.

Ciara Doyle, a senior lecturer in youth and community studies at the University of Greenwich, said that the conference’s breakout sessions were a “safe space” for people to talk openly about their situations, which might otherwise be dominated by those with no personal experience. “We see in the union movement that some people’s voices are far louder than others,” she added.

[Rincewind]

I find it an insult to be told that I could not attend something because I was able bodied. How dare they they say I would not support disability rights. A person could have disabled relatives or work/volunteer in the sector which would be why they would be attending to give their support. A person attending may just want to learn about what it is like to be disabled.