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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Dadeemelee

Dit moet zowat het meest belachelijke en tendentieuze artikel zijn dat ik gelezen heb. Als dat de alternative media zijn waarop alt-right zich baseert dan zijn het beroepsidioten.

Als je het artikel leest, dan denk je dat op de meeste Engelse en Amerikaanse universiteiten rechtse literatuur gebannen wordt en dat het lezen ervan verboden wordt en dat studenten of proffen weggestuurd of weggepest worden.

Wat is er werkelijk aan de hand: in 2 (Twee) universiteiten hebben studentenorganisaties besloten in hun universiteitswinkeltje 3 tabloids niet meer te verkopen. Huh? Big deal.

Goeie samenvatting van een deel van de derde paragraaf. Aangezien je de rest van het artikel gemakshalve negeert, win je de prijs voor de meest belachelijke en tendentieuze post ooit.

Laten we eens opsommen wat Dadeemelee allemaal NIET gelezen heeft, of het vermelden niet waard vindt:

1. Israel Society events are shouted down,
2. pro-life groups are denied space at freshers’ fairs.
3. At University College London, a Nietzsche Society was banned for fear it might stoke far-right thinking.
4. Student agitators at Brandeis University managed to cancel an honorary degree for Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the basis that she’s ‘Islamophobic’.
5. Earlier this year, students at Middlebury College in Vermont physically assaulted an academic who was trying to protect Charles Murray, an invited speaker they considered racist.
6. ‘Antifa’ activists and students at Berkeley started fires to prevent the alt-right Brit provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking. Berkeley was the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s, when students demanded more debate, not less. The anti-Milo protesters even burnt a replica of the simple banner reading ‘Free Speech’.
7. Watch last year’s video of a black student at San Francisco State University physically confronting a white student with dreadlocks, and threatening to cut off his dreads because ‘that is my culture’
8. Watch the film of Yale students screaming hysterically in the face of a lecturer who had said that people should be able to wear whatever they wanted at Halloween and not worry about cultural insensitivity
9. Or observe what happened at Evergreen State College in Washington in May. When the biology professor Bret Weinstein refused to take part in a proposed day of racial segregation — a ‘Day of Absence’, students called it, when whites would agree not to turn up to college — all hell broke loose. Student mobs invaded lectures, they demanded Weinstein’s resignation, and they effectively imprisoned university bosses in their offices and refused to let them leave until they agreed to the students’ foul, divisive agenda.
10. This year, Oxford’s equality and diversity unit warned staff that failing to make eye contact with certain students could be construed as racist,
11. and that asking a student about his or her origins is a ‘micro-aggression’ liable to worsen mental ill health.
12. The NUS has declared war on racial micro-aggressions, which it describes as ‘covert, subtle’ forms of racism. It means everyday banter and blips in conversation that have no racist intent whatsoever but which the union feels must be policed anyhow.
13. the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London this year announced it would remove all the portraits and statues of its founders because… well, they’re all white.
14. Students want a Cecil Rhodes bust at Oriel College, Oxford, removed,
15. for curricula across the country to be ‘de-colonised’,
16. and for black students not to be expected to read so much ‘white philosophy’
17. That was in a demand by students at SOAS this year that ‘white philosophers’, including Enlightenment thinkers like Kant, be dropped from the syllabus in order to make black students feel less isolated.
18. Cambridge was slammed by students for serving ‘culturally insensitive’ food (exotic dishes that didn’t properly reflect the countries they claimed to be from)
19. the musical Aida was cancelled at Bristol University following a ‘student revolt’ over white students portraying Egyptian slaves;
20. and Edinburgh University’s self-styled fancy-dress police insisted students mustn’t ever dress up as Pocahontas.
21. A Europe-wide poll this year found that only 46 per cent of Brits aged 18 to 21 think people should be free to ‘say what they want’.
22. And polls of millennials frequently show that they’re more down on democracy than older generations.