Defence firms cut ties with Edinburgh University after student backlash labelled ‘woke’

by Extension_Swing1808

20 comments
  1. Good. We need our best minds focused on climate change, not how to kill even more people.

  2. Anyone who uses “woke” as a derogatory term is most likely a prick. In this case warmongering profiting pricks.

  3. Well done to the students of Edinburgh University managing to dissuade some of the biggest employers in the country from coming to see you. This is only going to happen more and more often and these students are gonna realise how daft they have been.

  4. “Firms such as BAE Systems, Airbus, and Leonardo UK have pulled out due to security concerns”.

    Defence firms pulling out due to security concerns. How ironic.

  5. A non story, they aren’t cutting ties, as far as it reads they aren’t attending recruitment fairs anymore. Some vague stuff from an ‘industry insider’. Seems to largely be info they got from ‘the Times’, so apply that bias when reading.

  6. The problem with the term “woke” is that there are different types. As per usual, the fringe tarnishes the majority.

  7. “effectively blocking firms from attending career events and limiting job prospects for students.”

    I went to plenty of careers events as a student. They were kinda crap and I’ve met very few people who applied for a job specifically because of one.

    It’s not like the companies are taking applications and doing interviews there and then. Folks’s job prospects will be fine.

  8. Clickbait. Like 99% of articles using the word. It’s just a dogwhistle for the right.

  9. being opposed to industrial killing machinery is woke now

  10. In my view, anyone that does and works for an arms company is a moronic death loving bastard and I’ve zero respect for them, professionally.

    Use your fucking brains and time for a better cause, is my take

    Killing pays, for sure, but you’re just a failed human if you take the money.

    Level up.

  11. I understand that some people started using “Woke” to refer to a certain virtue signalling type of person, the more fundamentalist ‘progressives’ you might say, but its now just being scatter-gunned at anything to the point it has become meaningless. Its almost never used as anything other than an insult now.

    Personally I think both sides of these so called culture wars need to grow up. There are as many people on here who think they can dismiss the wildly varying views of millions of people by categorising them as “the right”.

  12. Remember, being woke is worse than bombing kids guys.

  13. ~~Defence firms~~

    Weapons manufacturers who are currently facilitating a Genocide.

  14. Wow students who are into peace and not war – what a shocker 😉

  15. >Woke

    Enough of this Trumpist Twaddle. What really they mean is being aware of social responsibilities or concerns and expressing empathy is a BAD THING!! Just as their new code-word/dog-whistle “DEI” really means BLACK. :/

    If students aren’t happy with War Firms (The Ministry of Defence *used* to be called the Ministry of War) who have engaged in nefarious acts of collusion to enable mass slaughter holding recruitment events on their campuses, I say more power to them.

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