Cancel Culture is “Beneficial for Social and Racial Justice”, Says Training Course for Academics at 100 U.K. Universities
Cancel culture has “benefits”, academics at almost 100 U.K. universities have been told as part of an anti-racism course. The Telegraph has the story.
The Open University has devised a training programme titled Union Black, backed by £500,000 of Santander investment, which offers teaching staff lessons including “white people have a responsibility to solve the problem of racism”.
Academics taking the course are urged to become “active allies” in advancing racial justice, course materials reveal, and taught about the advantages of “cancelling” people and institutions.
Material in one online module states: “In relation to racial/social justice, cancel culture has been shown to realise benefits.”
Examples of these benefits in the material include “holding people or entities accountable for immoral or unacceptable behaviour” and “promoting collective action to achieve social justice and cultural change through social pressure”.
Course documents also add “motivating allies to reveal themselves”, as an advantage, along with “mobilising public opinion and sharing collective expressions of moral outrage”.
The documents urge “due diligence before effectively ‘cancelling’ someone”, which is an act of making an individual a pariah – often through social media pressure and sometimes to the point of people losing their jobs – that has become a growing issue in academia.
I wonder how much stress was placed in the course on the importance of academic freedom, freedom of speech and tolerance of differing points of view. Little or none, I would hazard.
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My suggestion would be American people have a responsibilty of getting their own house in order before lecturing others about that. Ideally, they’d also learn that there is no such thing as white people outside the US of A. This would help to avoid silly situations like accusing Poles living in the UK of repressing Jamaicans despite the latter have a right to vote while the former don’t.
I heard some Pakistanis in Oldham were a bit put out by the influx of East Europeans…
I suppose under American terminology, the British in Britain would be “first nations” or something.
Which? The Anglo-Saxon invaders who overran Roman Britain or the Norman invaders who conquered them? 🙂 What I was trying to get at is that white people – thought of as homogenous group – is a very typically American concept. Long before the time when Kamala the Stupid referred to herself as child of immigrants, assuming this would somehow differentiate her from other Americans, in 19th century, when mass emigration from Europe to the USA took place, it was known as melting pot of the peoples as people from all over Europe and coming from peoples/ states who had spent centuries fighting wars against each other would amalgate into citiziens of the USA there. But this never happened in Europe and English, French, Germans, Italians and Poles are something very much different and not that long ago, even considered racially different. The same is obviously also true for so-called black people. Only in the USA are they all just black. In Africa, they’re split up into a large number of different tribes whose members even sometimes fight genocidal wars against members of other tribes. This imaginary black/ white (or white/ non-white) dichotomy is really just tripe which cannot be applied… Read more »
The British. Britons. And apparently, DNA evidence suggests that they were not displaced by the teutonic tribes to nearly the degree that had previously thought.
I heard a story about an old woman from Monmouthshire who was said to insist to her dying day that she was English, but British first – and therefore Welsh.
Incidentally, I heard that Carribean black people in Britain don’t necessarily get on with those who came from African countries. The “BAME” community is, of course, utter nonsense.
And the Third Reich’s National Socialists considered Slavs as Untermenschen, didn’t they?
And the Third Reich’s National Socialists considered Slavs as Untermenschen, didn’t they?
As inferior race, certainly, but that’s something Hitler got from Houston Stewart Chamberlain. This has also to be taken with a grain of salt as most Germans were considered racially inferior, too, just with still enough high-quality racial material among them that selectively breeding members of the master race from them was considered to be possible.
“In relation to racial/social justice,”…
And then they’ll fly to Kenya and tell those backward sub-Saharan Africans (who can’t be trusted to do France’s dirty work with migrants) that their country’s social policies are wrong, and by the way you’ll have to go hungry because of lockdowns. But at least they won’t call them “Keen-yah”, so that’s alright then