SalvorHardin wrote:neversay wrote:EDIT: I've just read about the white Oxford-educated museum curator in Hertfordshire who has been posting social media messages on what household chemicals can be thrown at statues to destroy them. I rest my case.
She's had quite a bit of blowback. Visited by the police earlier today, can't see her employer being pleased about that, and has now locked her Twitter account. She's now got a lot of people watching her for when she next screws up.
The tactics that these people have been using are now being used on them, in particular going after their livelihood and publicising their activities. It's effective and they don't like it.Thankfully the lockdown is playing havoc with university finances. There will soon be a load of unemployed grievance studies lecturers and other low-rate academic wasters, plus bankrupt universities, which will destroy much of the social justice warrior production line.
People are also going after hypocritical woke celebrities' sponsors. Lewis Hamilton's fans are now increasingly aware that his employer (Mercedes) employed slave labour during the Second World War. Also one of his sponsors (Hugo Boss) made uniforms for the SS also using slave labour.
Kind of taints their products. There is such a thing as bad publicity!
Guido Fawkes has found a few things about The Guardian. It was founded out of slavery profits, it supported the Confederates during the American Civil War, approved of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, etc.
https://order-order.com/2020/06/10/guardian-must-fall/
You surely can’t be serious in welcoming the “havoc” on our Universities and glorying in people becoming unemployed.
Have your views become corrupted by reading the tabloids? “Social justice warriors” are just a tiny minority of students and academics.
Criticism of universities because of the behaviour of a minority of their free thinkers is a bit like criticising all investors for being grasping and corrupt because of the behaviour of a few. And singling out the most successful investors as the most venal and unpleasant (particularly if they are successful in achieving returns over 15% per annum
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The comments by a privileged museum curator do not represent the views of the majority of UK university staff. She appears to be a wealthy American married to a wealthy American banker, educated in the USA (and who incidentally has a post graduate degree from Oxford). So not a representative of a University.
I guess you wouldn’t welcome havoc being wrought on all museums, nor on all bankers and wealthy investors because of some silly tweets by a (probably) spoilt rich individual.
Yes, it is good to criticise those who advocate unpleasant actions, but not to glory in the misfortunes of people who work in the University sector which, on the whole, has benefited the UK, and the USA hugely.
regards
Howard