A recent Guardian article is headlined ‘Elite universities aren’t hotbeds of ‘wokery’: our research shows they’re rife with racism and classism’.
Now, authors aren’t usually responsible for their headlines, but in this case they’ve got no excuse. “It has become common,” Kalwant Bhopal and Martin Myers write, “to view elite universities as places of left-leaning “wokery””. You don’t say! But according to the authors, this is a “deliberate mirage”.
As evidence for their claim, they point out that students from wealthy backgrounds who went to expensive schools are overrepresented at elite universities, and that students from more modest backgrounds, including racial minorities, sometimes feel unwelcome there. There’s obviously some truth to this.
The problem, however, is that it’s not evidence for the claim Bhopal and Myers are making. The existence of snobbery in some parts of the student body does not negate the existence of woke activism in other parts of the student body – not to mention the faculty and university administration.
The authors argue that “beyond the culture wars caricature”, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale and Harvard remain “highly conservative institutions”. I beg to differ.
First, there’s DIE (diversity, inclusion and equity). If the aforementioned institutions were “highly conservative”, they’d employ armies of staff to promote conservative values, such as tradition or individual liberty. Instead, they employ armies of staff to promote progressive values. These days, you’re more likely to see an LGBT flag flying over an Oxbridge college than you are to see a Union Jack.
Second, there’s cancel culture. In the US, scholars are ten times more likely to be targeted for expressing right-wing views than for expressing left-wing views. And as I showed in a recent Substack article, incidents of cancel culture are most common at elite colleges. Which has seen the highest number since 2015? You guessed it: Harvard University. (Stanford is second and Yale is ranked 13.)
Third, there’s the views of the academics themselves. Sure, there might be one or two Tories lurking in Cambridge, and the occasional Country Club Republican at Yale. But by and large, the people working at elite universities are progressive in their politics. In fact, a recent survey of Harvard academics found that just 1.5% were conservative – compared 82% who were liberal (in the American sense).
So yes, you can argue that elite universities are “highly conservative”. You just have to ignore the values promoted by administrators, the antics of student activists, and the views of academics themselves.
Elite universities aren’t just a little bit woke. They’re among the wokest institutions in society.
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Nigel Farage’s campaign for financial freedom may be the most important campaign of our generation.
The right to cash
The right to a bank account
No control over transactions
There is no freedom without financial freedom.
https://youtu.be/P7Sd7zerj6Y?si=07DMZhFMLmadQVl6
Latest leaflet to share
The intention to take our property has always been planned. It is part of the theft of the commons as outlined by Iain Davis.
“You will own nothing and be happy.”
Really awesome 50min video here which looks at the movie ‘1984’, as well as China and other totalitarian regimes from history, and relates this to what is happening to us today and the effects on society. Highly recommended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZOWRbixDPw&ab_channel=IntelligenceSquared
Excellent.
(Posts with links end up with fewer upticks than they should – you have to go out of your way to go back and uptick.)
I’d like to see a new remake of the 1984 movie. Past versions depict a dreary, joyless existence, a sort of brutish, Stalinist world. But that makes it seem too detached from our current reality. I wish they would remake it in our current setting full of comforts, convenience and cool gadgets, to make it clear that the oppressive dystopia of1984 can exist anywhere, not just in a gray, depressing, 1930’s Soviet-like world.
The symptoms for the Pirola strain (first article) are coughing, sneezing, runny eyes, fatigue, etc. So, just a summer cold then? If I wasn’t so sick of all this artificial hyping of everything into panic level (like our current hot and lovely weather) I would find it amusing, but my sense of humour about these things has long deserted me.
…yes..I find it impossible to find this funny anymore, as they have no intention of stopping….
My brother, who works in the care industry, rang me yesterday to tell me he has had his letter urging him to get a Covid and flu vax….he won’t as he’s never had either…but at the end of the letter was an attachment from the NHS saying they want to gain ‘knowledge of attitudes towards vaccination”…and apparently they have a ‘capacity tracker’ to evaluate the information monthly….
…and so it begins…….
“Matt Ridley: The stupidity on display here is off the graph”
If you look at [it’s] face and speech pattern while [it’s] speaking, you’ll see that the pink haired idiot is in a state of total cognitive dissonance about the complete cr*p [it’s] just come out with. Everything about that statement is wrong, [it] knows it’s wrong but says it anyway because someone further up the food chain told [it] to.
Well done that reporter. Never interrupt an idiot making even more of a fool of themselves.
“The U.K. Government wants to control your kitchen fridge or send you to jail”
Have the govt really thought this through? 1) If they criminalise a big chunk of their target audience – as, let’s face it, the majority of home owners are older folk and tend to be small c conservative if not big C types – its not exactly going to endear them to their voting base, is it? 2) It costs an average of £46,696 per annum to keep a prisoner warm, comfy and well-fed – and the new raft of geriatric crims with additional needs will cost more. That’s about 4 times what it currently costs me to live in my home. How’s that saving the national leccy bill then? 3) Thus my suspicion is that this is just a cack-handed way of meeting C40/WEF-mandated land grab targets.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202172/cost-per-prisoner-england-and-wales/
See Iain Davis – The Theft of the Commons.
Never forget:
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
It doesn’t matter which one of the LibLabCon people vote for the policy outcomes will be the same.
I hope I’m not repeating something, but in relation to the Eugyppius article yesterday, I saw this….it’s in German, but I could use my translate button…
https://exxpress.at/lauterbach-raeumt-ein-geimpfte-starben-genauso-oft-wie-ungeimpfte/
Vaccination with the BioNTech vaccine “Comirnaty” had no significant influence on the mortality rate. This was the result of a study with 43,448 subjects. The German Ministry of Health is now forced to admit this in a response to the inquiry.
The German Ministry of Health under Karl Lauterbach (SPD) has admitted in a response to a parliamentary question by AfD member Roger Beckamp: There is no “significant difference in all-cause mortality” between those vaccinated and unvaccinated against corona. Vaccination with the BioNTech vaccine “Comirnaty” therefore has no significant influence on the mortality rate.
The study served as an essential approval study for Comirnaty. 43,448 subjects participated in it, one half (21,720 subjects) received the vaccination, the other half (21,728) was treated with placebo.
Roger Beckamp from the AfD commented to the JF: The federal government must now admit “black on white” what has actually been known for a long time. He added that all subsequent studies to which the Federal Government refers do not meet the same scientific standards and therefore do not have the same significance.
Seems like big news to me..but??
It would appear that Germany isn’t the only country where regulators failed to regulate and have no idea…….and I suspect every country in Europe, including our own, are in a very similar boat!?
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/australias-drug-regulator-admits
Australia’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has no idea how many of the adverse events reported to its database are actually caused by the Covid vaccines.
Despite refusing to answer straightforward questions about how many reports it has assessed for causality, the TGA has confirmed that they do not have the information required to properly assess all adverse events (AEs) reported to its safety surveillance database, the DAEN (Database of Adverse Event Notifications).
Yet, there is a widespread perception that the TGA assesses all reports, particularly of serious AEs, for causality.
Worth a read….
This Australian vote – it looks to me a lot like they are trying to set up an equivalent to Europe’s ECHR by the back door. It will be used to block anything even vaguely against the interests of the global elites from being enacted. Essentially giving the globalists a veto over the democratically elected Government, because let’s be honest here – the ‘citizens panel’ or whatever they are calling it, will be stuffed full of their handpicked acolytes.
Absolutely stunning substack from Aussie 17….
Pharmafiles News September 7, 2023 Pfizer Whistleblower Exposes Massive Financial Deals with Government Officials…
Former Pfizer’s Director of Global Compliance Analytics, Frank Han is throwing some serious shade at Pfizer, alleging that they have been up to no good. It’s a spicy story with allegations of massive financial transfers involving government officials and Pfizer’s corporate antics.
Specifically, Pfizer spent a staggering $168 million in China, $12 million in the US, $11 million in Canada, $7.5 million in Russia, and $7.1 million in the UK during this period……I mean, they’re dropping over $200 million just for five countries! And get this, it’s only for the period from Q2 2019 through Q3 2021. Can you imagine what would happen if we looked at a whole decade? I wouldn’t be shocked if it skyrocketed into the billions!
Worth a read…..
Oops!
https://www.aussie17.com/p/pharmafiles-news-september-7-2023
Re:
https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1699349497074090277?s=48
and the quality of air / emissions.
I received the latest disinformation article from gov.uk this morning.
Another piece of scaremongering junk!
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/air-pollution-link-with-covid-19-infection-and-adverse-outcomes
Summary: ‘…We conclude that, in the context of evidence for the effect of air pollution on lung infections more generally, long-term air pollution may be a contributory factor in worsening the symptoms of COVID-19.’
No doubt this ‘timely’ publication will be used to push the ULEZ propaganda and use of masks again, sigh.
Summary: ‘…We conclude that, in the context of evidence for the effect of air pollution on lung infections more generally, long-term air pollution may be a contributory factor in worsening the symptoms of COVID-19.’
This is not just a statement of absolutely nothing but a badly written statement about nothing.
Let’s try : repeated injections with the C1984 jabs may be a contributory factor in worsening the symptoms of COVID-19.’
Or: repeated erosion of basic human rights may be a contributory factor in worsening the symptoms of Covid 19.
Sorted.
“Why BA.2.86 Covid strain is just another ‘scariant’” – The new Covid variant Pirola may be less infectious and deadly than previously feared, says the Mail.
Oh what a surprise! It’s not like that’s ever happened before, is it? How many times does this have to happen before they give up? But no, the next one will STILL be the most infectious and deadly one yet.
This WEF spokeswoman said she wasn´t a scientist.
But she spouts such crazy non-sequiturs that one must wonder if any sort of science at all is taught in schools.
Her display suggests that whatever she was taught, it was completely wasted.