Earlier this week /u/IllithidWithAMonocle and I were talking about how “You’re one of the good ones” is just code for “the target is not pinned on *your* back ^^yet” and this is the perfect example for this. CS PhD student at one of the most prestigious universities in the country, this man would presumably score very highly on the point-based immigration system. He’s the poster child for “one of the good ones”. And yet… he was accused of committing thoughtcrime (something that did not even happen) and suddenly it’s all death threats and “go back where you came from”.
Imagine moving to a country and then criticizing the much loved state figurehead? It is a bit dumb. I myself hate the whole idea of royalty and would love to see them abolished and replaced by a republic. I can say this because I was born in the UK.
The article seems extremely selective as this story didn’t just appear out of nowhere. Talking heads were able to jump on this because students at various universities generated loads of publicity around tearing down statues or renaming their colleges etc etc, and seemed to willing to get mobs to harangue administrators so this could be blown up into another one of those, and some of those stories included overseas students who seemed to want to restructure the places that they had the privilege to be at so there’s probably a little more fuel on that fire too. The Guardian was very happy to give those stories lots of coverage so they helped create that atmosphere.
The media economy is driven by grabbing attention so anything from websites to radio phone-ins want divisive topics. And a lot of campaigners want to be divisive whilst lots of people at home want to be angry, so we have a whole symbiotic relationship of shit stirring going on.
>[Katzman as student head of the Common Room/MCR] was presented with a motion from an MCR subcommittee asking for the removal of the picture of the Queen. Katzman redrafted the motion, playing down its accusation of colonialism. Instead, he wrote that those associations made some students uncomfortable. His name was appended as a formality, yet at a sparsely attended meeting, he neither spoke for the motion nor supported it. Seventeen students voted, only two opposed. The rest of the evening was spent discussing, among other things, garden furniture and a leaving gift for a college librarian.
I don’t agree with this being a “very modern British phenomenon”. It’s pretty worldwide and has been for decades. You go against the establishment or against the popular public opinion this happened in any country.
Imagine taking the guardian seriously.
The Guardian “Your innate goodness is dictated by your ancestry, sexual preference and biological sex. Also, biological sex isn’t actually real, and you’re a moral degenerate if you claim otherwise”
Also The Guardian: “The right are waging a culture war”.
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*Edit: Just to clarify, I’m generally speaking (or was until a few years ago) left wing. I still consider myself broadly left wing. I also happen to believe that all people are of equal goodness irrespective of race, gender etc. The Guardian does not.
I see the lefty paper don’t post anything when the trans army people send death threats to popular children’s authors and threatens to murder women they don’t like.
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Earlier this week /u/IllithidWithAMonocle and I were talking about how “You’re one of the good ones” is just code for “the target is not pinned on *your* back ^^yet” and this is the perfect example for this. CS PhD student at one of the most prestigious universities in the country, this man would presumably score very highly on the point-based immigration system. He’s the poster child for “one of the good ones”. And yet… he was accused of committing thoughtcrime (something that did not even happen) and suddenly it’s all death threats and “go back where you came from”.
Imagine moving to a country and then criticizing the much loved state figurehead? It is a bit dumb. I myself hate the whole idea of royalty and would love to see them abolished and replaced by a republic. I can say this because I was born in the UK.
The article seems extremely selective as this story didn’t just appear out of nowhere. Talking heads were able to jump on this because students at various universities generated loads of publicity around tearing down statues or renaming their colleges etc etc, and seemed to willing to get mobs to harangue administrators so this could be blown up into another one of those, and some of those stories included overseas students who seemed to want to restructure the places that they had the privilege to be at so there’s probably a little more fuel on that fire too. The Guardian was very happy to give those stories lots of coverage so they helped create that atmosphere.
The media economy is driven by grabbing attention so anything from websites to radio phone-ins want divisive topics. And a lot of campaigners want to be divisive whilst lots of people at home want to be angry, so we have a whole symbiotic relationship of shit stirring going on.
>[Katzman as student head of the Common Room/MCR] was presented with a motion from an MCR subcommittee asking for the removal of the picture of the Queen. Katzman redrafted the motion, playing down its accusation of colonialism. Instead, he wrote that those associations made some students uncomfortable. His name was appended as a formality, yet at a sparsely attended meeting, he neither spoke for the motion nor supported it. Seventeen students voted, only two opposed. The rest of the evening was spent discussing, among other things, garden furniture and a leaving gift for a college librarian.
I don’t agree with this being a “very modern British phenomenon”. It’s pretty worldwide and has been for decades. You go against the establishment or against the popular public opinion this happened in any country.
Imagine taking the guardian seriously.
The Guardian “Your innate goodness is dictated by your ancestry, sexual preference and biological sex. Also, biological sex isn’t actually real, and you’re a moral degenerate if you claim otherwise”
Also The Guardian: “The right are waging a culture war”.
​
*Edit: Just to clarify, I’m generally speaking (or was until a few years ago) left wing. I still consider myself broadly left wing. I also happen to believe that all people are of equal goodness irrespective of race, gender etc. The Guardian does not.
I see the lefty paper don’t post anything when the trans army people send death threats to popular children’s authors and threatens to murder women they don’t like.