The Reform Thread

[Gloucester Saint]

7 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

Fair enough. I think that broadly universities should be strongly in favour of hearing views from legitimate people that some may find objectionable or even offensive. It's terrible that some students don't hear opposing points of view. I thought the Tories introduced something alongside the free speech union to prevent this sort of thing happening but it was shelved when labour came in. I could be wrong about that.

I think Labour re-introduced the Free Speech bill but I can’t claim to know the technicalities I’m afraid. I think it was linked into the large Sussex fine which is currently being contested at the High Court.

[whelk]

4 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

Straightforward to defend the statement that there are too many brown faces in tv adverts? I hadn’t even noticed how many there were until she had her rant. Isn’t it racist to comment about things just based on race?

I am clearly more observant than you. It doesn’t overly bother me. It isn’t racist to notice somebody is black

[Holmes_and_Watson]

7 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

Straightforward to defend the statement that there are too many brown faces in tv adverts? I hadn’t even noticed how many there were until she had her rant. Isn’t it racist to comment about things just based on race?

 

3 hours ago, whelk said:

I am clearly more observant than you. It doesn’t overly bother me. It isn’t racist to notice somebody is black

Desperate to show that race never enters his head, SOG falls straight into the  colourblindness is racism trap.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culturally-speaking/201112/colorblind-ideology-is-form-racism

Embrace multiculturalism SOG, instead of worrying over which bandwagon to jump on.