Criticising China’s Covid lockdowns is a “microaggression”, a university has told professors. The Telegraph has the story.
The University of Surrey’s mandatory online module for staff, titled ‘introduction to race equity’, includes several examples of so-called microaggressions, or subtle remarks or actions that some find offensive.
Academics are told that they should not critique the Communist Party’s zero-Covid draconian lockdown measures, which have seen millions locked in their homes, as Chinese students may feel they are simply “caring more about others”.
Students are encouraged to anonymously report such perceived slights on a “Report + Support” webpage and scholars are urged “to seek advice from human resources regarding next steps” if they are reported…
The Telegraph can reveal that bosses at the university, based in Guildford, are facing a revolt from more than a dozen of their own academics who accuse them of “policing conformity with controversial moral and/or political beliefs” of what they say, and even the readings they assign to students.
The row centres on the provost, Tim Dunne, seeking to “morally evaluate academics” with a new appraisal criteria that requires managers to mark them on their pursuit of “fairer outcomes”, demonstrate “inclusive educational practice” and “actively champion initiatives to promote diversity and fairness in our community”.
Thirteen academics are trying to defeat the new marking criteria at a vote of the university’s senate on Thursday night, claiming it “would create significant new legal and institutional risks for the university”.
In a letter to the senate, the rebels cite how they may be “deemed non-inclusive” for committing the “prohibited microaggression [of] criticism of the Chinese Government’s Covid policies”.
The academics warn: “An academic who believes any of these things, or who criticises Chinese Government policies, will soon be able to complain to regulators under the new Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill on grounds that the university is failing to meet its positive legal duty to ‘take steps to secure freedom of speech’.”
They added: “Worse, this video gives academics a reason to fear that such criticism could result in their being subjected to disciplinary action under the university’s new ‘zero tolerance’ approach to microaggressions.”
They also fear they could be punished for not making student marks “more equal”, due to there being no consensus on what constitutes “fair outcomes”, and may be marked down for not endorsing the university’s guidance on decolonising curricula to ensure it does not “reflect a western-dominated view”.
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“I want you to have your civil liberties back, but I don’t want you to have them back in a way that kills other people”.
Ban cars, ban abortions, ban smoking, ban drinking, ban visiting anybody in a care home ever, ban sneezing in public
Ban lockdown – this biggest killer this year
The government has a shed load of vaccines (400 million and rising), and if these are not to go the same way as its earlier irresponsible purchase of not-fit-for-purpose PPE (or the panic driven Nightingale follies) Boris and chums are going to be jabbing this gene therapy muck into us on a regular basis for the the foreseeable future.
Unless journalists and voters start to challenge this ridiculous and oft repeated spin that one wears a mask/takes a jab to protect others then we are fooked. Liberty cannot be given back in instalments, it is essentially indivisible and it is NOT the government’s to take away.
For a year now UK citizens have listened and voluntarily (albeit under pressure) gone along with (as opposed to obeying) draconian ministerial decrees – to the point where Shapps & Co are deluded enough to believe they hold our rights and liberties in their hands to take back and return as they see fit – THEY DO NOT!
We can take back our liberties at any time, and (in agreement with JHB) that time is now. There needs to be a spontaneous EASTER UPRISING to stretch the police force to breaking point, and to re-assert (not reclaim) those inalienable rights that are enshrined within our constitution.
And we need to oppose every propaganda agent like Shapps or we will lose the fundamental freedom of naturally topping up our by now weakened immune systems by catching seasonal colds and flus (as if this elemental process somehow threatens others). Meanwhile kids of all ages at school need to shed the masks in mass protest, and refuse testing. Hopefully the bigger kids still cowering at home will follow soon after….
We need a mass civil disobedience day when everyone tears up their masks in public. It’s a start and sends a strong message.
Its not a question of getting our civil liberties back – no (democratic) government has the right to take them away – which is why all this BS is guidance and not law……its voluntary and they rely on propaganda and the idiocy of the general population to obey.
It is a matter of the population taking responsibility for their own actions and the consequences of those actions – by force of law if necessary.
But we have bred several generations of people who believe that everything they think, say and do is the fault of someone else if it goes wrong. And therefore its someone elses responsibility to prevent them from thinking, saying or doing something.
That isnt going to change – its ingrained in the majority of people (see the Meghan Markle interview for the latest classic example).
But what needs to happen is not the state accommodating these people and mopping their weary brows, but the state ignoring them and their self-deluded demands, and if it must, tell them to grow a pair, stop being so feeble-minded and pathetic and take some responsibility.
Now – who in politics is going to do that?
They wouldnt tolerate it in the armed services…..maybe a military coup isnt such a bad idea……
So it is about dates and not data.
To follow Shapps’ logic we will lock down for the next bad flu season when there is a more dangerous strain or the vaccine is less effective.
It’s time for a mask burning party, methinks.
Mr Shapps said “I want you to have your civil liberties back, but I don’t want you to have them back in a way that kills other people”.
This is the foundation of the biosecurity fascist totalitarian state now being erected in the anglosphere and some european nations.
‘They’ decide when. if we have our freedoms based on their ever-changing rules. They impose controls that are being developed and implemented every day.
If people do not rise up against this tyranny very soon it will be too late, it just might already be so.
Shapps is a perfect illustration of what is wrong with the lockdownistas: inconvenient facts just do not exist for them.
I have listened to this several times . Schapps says that May was mentioned in the clip from January that JHB played -but it wasn’t was it?
This is the morality of altruism from Grant Shapps, altruism is the morality of sacrifice and death
All the costs are future and right now the feeling that seeking a quicker exit means killing people makes the lockdown largely supported.
But pols should remember that in six months, when job losses mount, cancer deaths rise and taxes begin to hit…they will forget they supported this policy, and put the blame right on Boris and Co.