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Diversity course at University of Kent

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andyoldlabour · 28/09/2021 14:35

The university of Kent is introducing a mandatory 4 hour diversity course for students where it will be concentrating on topics such as White Privilege, Microaggressions and Pronouns.
Apparently seconhand clothes could be seen as an example of "white privilege".
"The course, titled Expect Respect and seen by The Telegraph, includes a white privilege quiz where participants are asked to pick which of 13 options are societal benefits allegedly enjoyed by white people in the UK.
If the student ticks all 13, a gold star is awarded, and if not, a button appears directing them to retry.
Staff have also been emailed by faculty managers to consider adding trigger warnings to exam papers, and carry out “pronoun checks, make a note of them and use them correctly” when meeting new students, such as they/them or ze/zir."

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/wearing-second-hand-clothes-an-example-of-white-privilege-students-told/ar-AAOSULh?ocid=mailsignout&li=AAnZ9Ug

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Jaysmith71 · 28/09/2021 15:14

It's actually:

“I can swear, or dress in second-hand clothes, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty or the illiteracy of my race.”

Which is an odd juxtaposition of two entirely different things.

Swearing is complex. There are many ways to swear. You can be a sniper, carefully choosing your target, a machine-gunner spraying in all directions, every other word, or you can look all innocent and without warning lob a hand-grenade into the conversation. Which of these tactics you employs depends a lot on your social class upbringing.

Richard Hoggart speaks about working-class swearing in The Uses of Literacy.

Helleofabore · 28/09/2021 15:08

Secondhand clothes a sign of privilege?

WTF? The wearing of, or the divesting of clothes to someone else?

andyoldlabour · 28/09/2021 14:54

I am going to show this to my DW tonight, she graduated with her Masters from there.
When did universities stop being academic centres of excellence and turn into centres of babbling wokeism?

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GCAcademic · 28/09/2021 14:52

Only the second day of term and I’ve already been told I’m using the wrong pronouns for someone obviously female. Apparently “they” are very marginalised (despite attending a super expensive boarding school).

scoopydoopy · 28/09/2021 14:49

How is this happening? Where are all the rational people?!?

HandsOffMyRights · 28/09/2021 14:48

One more to strike off DS' university lists.

WeAreGerbil · 28/09/2021 14:47

How are second hand clothes white privilege? I had to wear second hand knickers when we were really poor, sure didn't feel like a privilege.

BaronMunchausen · 28/09/2021 14:46

"...carry out “pronoun checks, make a note of them and use them correctly” when meeting new students, such as they/them or ze/zir."

This would involve an unbearable cognitive load!

It would be hard enough to remember the names of hundreds of students, never mind pronouns for each one.

(Hard enough to remember the full range of pronouns themselves)

GeorgiaMcGraw · 28/09/2021 14:45

Secondhand clothes a sign of privilege? Good to know the identity polutics lovers are finally openly shitting on the working class. Poor? That's a privilege! Careful about waste? Privilege! The whole thing is awful. 4 hours of totalitarian shit. The Unis need gutting.

BaronMunchausen · 28/09/2021 14:43

This is possibly someone's misdirection from their own economic privilege.

A similar course on class privilege would be unimaginably disruptive!

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