Ban white men

[Gob]

University is supposed to be amazing, a transformative experience which is informed by student unions across the country.

Yet people don’t give a toss about their student unions, no one cares about the NUS, and activism is dying at all but a few hardcore universities. This generation of students has been pissed on by the government and fees, and privatisation, and all anyone seems to want to do is roll over and let it happen.

Do you know why this is? It’s because our universities and student unions are too similar to our government; they are too stunted by white men. White men might want to appropriate injustice as theirs, desperate for something to struggle against, but it’s a hobby they’ll pick up and drop as soon as the first comfortable finance job beckons them over.

We need to ban white men and their activism dilettantism from student unions. We need powerful women and minority ethnic people to bring their passion back to the heart of student politics. Being a student union president should no longer be a place for privileged whiteboys to swing their dicks around before graduating into a world that is in no way affected by what they claim to fight for. More importantly, we obviously live in a world that looks favourably on white men. In order to bring about change in our racist and sexist society, it must start in our universities. If women and minority ethnic people were in positions of leadership across all universities in the country, we would have a diverse graduating class of future leaders in every industry.

“Oh but, it’s racist to ban someone on the basis of their skin colour, and sexist to ban them on their gender,” cry the assembly chorus of confused souls trying to turn the language of progress into a weapon to further entrench the establishment. It’s not. You’re at university, go and ask a humanities professor. Learn something. White men have had the last several millennia in charge, and it’s been a s***show from start to finish. A new generation of powerful women and minority ethnic people is ready to lead and change. It is time for you to bow down.

https://archive.today/WsKKz#selection-1375.0-1391.226

[Joe Guy]

If women and minority ethnic people were in positions of leadership across all universities in the country, we would have a diverse graduating class of future leaders in every industry.

Right...

And if the Queen had balls she would be King....

[MajGenl.Meade]

[Lord Jim]

The OP sounds like a speech one would expect at a Santa Cruz City Council meeting...

[rubato]

"the author is a British journalist" is what you see if you click through.

Not exactly a pithy attribution.

There is all kinds of meaningless shit on the internet.

Try to filter a little better next time.


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rubato

[Lord Jim]

There is I post all kinds of meaningless shit on the internet this board.

Edited for accuracy...

Meade:

Those look like a bunch of attendees at a Leonard Cohen concert....

[MajGenl.Meade]

..Nah, that's the band!

[oldr_n_wsr]

go and ask a humanities professor.

That's usually my go to guy.