Trans activists hound Nadhim Zahawi off university campus

@MissyB1 Some people have the inteligence and capacity for listening to and acknowledging another perspective (even if they disagree with it), some people don't - they are bloody hard work!

God aren't they just. Lately this whole thing had been like reliving the South African apples debacle on loop!

Some people have the inteligence and capacity for listening to and acknowledging another perspective (even if they disagree with it), some people don't - they are bloody hard work!

'Transphobic dog whistle' has just become nothing more than a lazy attempt to silence someone from voicing something the lobby doesn't want to hear or have to address. It's just another version of 'no debate'.

Considering transphobic now means nothing more than 'not in enthusiastic agreement with me' it's pretty much no longer worth worrying about, or accepting as meaning 'you have hit my boundary on acceptability'.

When a boundary is just 'do exactly what I say or else' without any respect for anyone else's boundary, it's cutted up pear pretending to be a boundary. And needs handling in much the same way.

It's changed it's meaning in such a way that it can be used to characterize any statement someone doesn't like as a covert racist plot.

TWAW would totally fit by that thinking, it's a phrase that is meant to lead in a particular direction intellectually, and it's also recognized by supporters of the view as a standard kind of trope.

But actually, both statements are pretty up front about what they mean, they make an argument of sorts, which some people will agree with and others not. It's potentially possible to convince someone of your view on that matter.

One of the protesters was Joel Cooper, son of Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper. Maybe fear of being cancelled by her son is why Yvette refuses to define a woman.

But then I don't imagine the young women at the centre of the rape chat scandal felt safe. Warwick has form for failing to protect students from other students.

well quite.

That’s excellent. Hoisted by their own petard, hopefully.

Warwick joins Bristol as a place my DC won’t be applying to.

Are the words adult human male ever used?

What a lot of very good girls. Sigh.

I find this beyond sad, I really do.

I don’t understand how these young people get into university in the first place. They really don’t sound very bright.

Cross post @DdraigGoch

"A Department for Education source said: "This proves the need for the Freedom of Speech Bill and is more evidence against those who say there is no such thing as a chilling culture on campus."

Definitely an own goal.
The sad thing is peaceful protest is also likely to be impacted.

How times have changed. Just 3-4 years ago young women at Warwick were campaigning about rape culture and the WhatsApp scandal. Now it is young women protesting for the erasure if their sex. The photo accompanying the article showed all young women as far as one could tell.

A Department for Education source said: "This proves the need for the Freedom of Speech Bill and is more evidence against those who say there is no such thing as a chilling culture on campus."

Well at least someone at the DfE has noticed.

It's a free country where people should be free to hold and express their beliefs, even extremist beliefs, but the limits are attempting to control and enforce one belief system on others. The limit of personal freedoms are other people's rights and freedoms, and that is where the balance has been lost.

The absolute arrogance and intolerance of this group and the belief in their absolute right to punish, harass and control to enforce that no one dares thwart them, their fixed belief that they do not have to tolerate anyone or anything existing that in any way is not in keeping with and compliant with their personal beliefs and choices? That is what needs putting back in its a box with a strong hand. What the belief actually is, is irrelevant.

This is a multi faith country, religious tolerance is within the law, would the government please kindly enforce the bloody law. I sincerely hope seeing this extremism and indulged behaviour first hand opens the cabinet's eyes and gets them off their bottoms.

And I am painfully aware that if any party other than the bloody tory shower get into power we will see this religious extremism become a fixed part of the law before we've had time to blink.

As a politician who has been discriminated against all his life, I wonder what he makes of this absurd first world 'problem'. These campaigners really need to get a grip - maybe a week or two in the wilderness or living in absolute poverty would give them some perspective and grounding? Sheer idiocy.

Indeed not. Very poor standard of English in that statement. 'That' used repeatedly instead of 'who'. This is a very minor detail given the matter of the news reports, but it irked me.

When I was a student, a million years ago, the largest and most active political society on campus was the Federation of Conservative Students. They were probably enjoying a boost from Mrs Thatcher's recent election victory and certainly benefited from the lack of unity on the left. The Labour Club was tiny and in the process of being taken over by Militant Tendency. The student wing of the SWP and various other extreme left groups were very vocal at Student Union meetings, but never acted in any concerted way to actually achieve anything. I remember those meetings as quite noisy and heated, but there was no violence, unless you count the nickname given to a prominent Tory student at the time who later became a government minister. Even now I'm afraid I think of him as John Shittingdale.

I rather imagine this thuggish minority of middle-class losers have a history of hating their mothers, possibly to a pathological degree, and think it's exciting to be playing at urban guerillas.

To think that many Greenham women did jail time for so much less. I remember being chased by the police when we were just tying ribbons to the perimeter, and two of our group were arrested. (What is it about women with ribbons that's so terrifying?!) This lot, the TRA extremists, seem to have been given immunity from police action though. Why? Why have so many different police forces seemingly adopted this policy of 'don't disperse, don't interfere, don't arrest'?

I can’t imagine having been a student Conservative, but they are being treated terribly by their peers here. They have a right to invite mainstream speakers to talk to them about their politics. People can protest at a distance but this wasn’t that.

When I was a student - some politician came to our campus and there were cuts being proposed.

We gathered and booed (chanted and swore). Got a bollocking from the Head for acting like wee thugs.

Is the head here scared of the wee students?

They don’t do succinct and punchy very well, do they

No, it is not a hallmark of this movement to be pithy or write elegant prose.

I cant stand Zahawi, he's thick and unctuous. However, this is unacceptable behaviour by the cretin students. #nodebate doesn't mean 'won't debate', it means cant debate. They have no debating skills, no ability to see the other side of a question, no capacity for critical thought. It is horrifying that a proper uni like Warwick thinks this is OK.

It has been brought to our attention over the past few weeks that the Warwick Conservative Association is running an external speaker event, inviting Nadhim Zahawi,

Would this have been a student Conservative Association?

Brave students who may well feel unsafe on campus.

But then I don't imagine the young women at the centre of the rape chat scandal felt safe. Warwick has form for failing to protect students from other students.

Times coverage this morning : www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cb684882-e05f-11ec-8bdd-c253e043f5f0?shareToken=03748f4384461f31563eb2519551ee11

Again the mention of a blow landing on one of the officials.

Thuggery doesn't win hearts and mind, boys.

They don’t do succinct and punchy very well, do they 😂

How utterly outrageous that he was forced to leave because it was a security issue. Someone was actually hit on the back of the head.

This has to stop.

It is not okay to assault people just because they disagree with you.

I hope he will now see the issue is much more serious than the government have to now realised (although many others have far worse experiences simply trying to express their views). Toxic activists are literally shutting people down, and we need new laws to stop this kind of behaviour in its tracks.