Arab woman and professor in Canada cancelled by woke white mob

She has blasphemed. Can't believe it has become this.

*immigrants like Malala and Hibo can do a lot more good here than their home countries.

Immigrants will come here for a variety of reasons.
However, it cannot be denied that immigrants

You seem very articulate to me @bugsymalona

MissBarbary
"That ties in with why the Labour Party is losing the support of voters on cultural aspects of public life- on the one hand the UK is this terrible, racist, sexist, Colonial repressor- yet why do so many immigrants want to come to such an awful country?"

I have asked people this on other forums, particularly discussion around Brexit, immigration, racism. Usually the people I am asking, come across as self hating and refer to others they disagree with as - racist, fascist, xenophobic, ignorant "gammons".

I work in primary and we do teach reading comprehension but to be honest understanding the text is more important than bias. This is covered more in persuasive writing so I would expect this to be continued in secondary.

However, the impression I have got from here is secondary have become much less neutral with teachers openly pushing political stances and ideology.

In the meantime staff in my school have had to push hard just to get things like Black History and women into the curriculum, so I don't think you could ever accuse us of being too woke. There is one teacher who canvasses for labour which I find a bit uncomfortable as I am pretty sure it's against the teaching standards.

I would have expected that critical thinking and analysis of source to be a big thing. We start it in primary in ict, but to be honest it's probably a bit early for them to really comprehend it.

I just don't understand how we're getting all these young adults with such poor individual thinking skills.

Sunnydale

Yes, I have really noticed this too.

There's a not very active thread in AIBU, and I've seen other similar discussions, about the priest that was let go over a sermond saying it is ok to disagree with things and important to think critically and be respectful of others views.

If you just look at the responses in these discussions - people have no idea why those things are important.

They have no idea that it is possible to discuss these ideas and engage with them intellectually as the onl reason they think abnyone might disagree is bigotry.

They have no idea that there are, or even could be good reasons to think critically about the mainstream view on such issues. (For example, is it possible, at all, to have laws that differentiate between people based on their biological sex, and under what conditions if so, and what might be the consequences of saying that it's not possible.) Like, not on the radar.

And they seem completely unaware that in recent history many ideas they hold as non-negotiable were only challenged because of people who were willing to go against the accepted view. Or that within the span of history further back that there have been completely different ways of framing the discussion which lead to very different considerations, and that this might be worth knowing something about.

I work in schools, I have really noticed a complete lack of real teaching on critical thinking. They talk about it a lot, but what they mean is teaching the right view on various topics and a pseudo-marxist, and frankly inaccurate, view of history. And making sure thy don't have one idea in their little minds that might spark a question.

I think women have a way to achieve equality in the UK, but our plight is comparatively small when compared to women in Saudi Arabia
This is hardly groundbreaking stuff

That ties in with why the Labour Party is losing the support of voters on cultural aspects of public life- on the one hand the UK is this terrible, racist, sexist, Colonial repressor- yet why do so many immigrants want to come to such an awful country?

I'd be interested in reading the original blog, but as she's been 'cancelled' I doubt that will be available.
Just as a general musing it seems to me something has happened with comprehension, analytical and critical thinking skills in the past ten years or so. Perhaps it's a product of having internet echo chambers, but since secondary school onwards I was taught to look for bias and read primary sources for myself before making my mind up about a topic. In fact, not being sure how you felt was also considered fine once you'd read the facts.
But more and more I see people making judgement on poor secondary sources and then being unable to be swayed from their position by facts.
A very clear case of this is how many people have decided JK Rowling is transphobic, despite not having read either the essay or book that led to people drawing this conclusion. People who hadn't read her novel were arguing it based on a book review of someone who also hadn't read the novel. It's absolute madness. What's happened in the past few years that a person can 'read' things in a blog that aren't there and are an odd interpretation but yet that person manages to get that person cancelled. It's chilling.

Good grief, I just find people so dumb a lot of the time.

But more seriously, I find myself wondering - why are people so very reactive about this stuff? Like, if someone like this, or a report, says, actually, the attitudes here are not so bad to outsiders at all and most people are accepting, or the systematic barriers here are not very great and disparities mostly come from other sources - why do people find that so worthy of freaking out?

Because it isn't just a disagreement about facts or even how to interpret them, you can see it in the way they disagree. It is like an existential threat.

Well that’s one way of proving their point I suppose.

From the article it doesn't even appear that she wrote that Canada wasn't systematically racist. It seems she wrote that it wasn't comparatively to other countries in her experience.
Similarly she didn't say Canada wasn't patriarchal, but that it was less sexist by comparison.

I mean, since when is acknowledging that some countries are less sexist or racist than others controversial?
I think women have a way to achieve equality in the UK, but our plight is comparatively small when compared to women in Saudi Arabia.
This is hardly groundbreaking stuff.