Brendan
'O Neill triggers a frenzy
In
stunning news this morning it was announced that Oxford University has expelled
two dozen students for organised intimidation and bringing the good name of the 800-year-old institution into disrepute.
“We’ve
had our eye on these people for some time,” confided the vice-chancellor to our
reporter. “Last year they shamelessly caused the cancellation of a high profile
debate on abortion simply because the two main speakers were men. Needless to
say this sort of thing is intolerable in one of the world’s leading centres of
learning. Hardly a week goes past without a horde of these vociferous thugs trampling
down our ancient prerogatives. After all, this is Oxford University we’re
talking about for God’s sake not bloody North Korea!”
Then
more grandiloquently he added “Eight centuries of my distinguished forebears were looking on. I couldn’t possibly
let them down!”
More
specifically the expelled were removed for numerous breaches of the university Code
of Discipline connected to their disruption of debates and victimisation of students
who dissented from their extreme leftist politics.
The
last straw came a few days ago when third year PPE student Jacob Williams had
150 copies of his free speech magazine No
Offence seized by police after a tip off from student union representatives
that he was distributing offensive material.
“Quite
frankly,” the vice-chancellor went on, “it’s an acute embarrassment for us as a
university. Not only does a student have to found his own magazine to avoid the
strait-jacket of political correctness at all the other journals, but then he
is harassed and intimidated by what can only be described as quasi-fascist
enforcers.”
“And
they’re so brazen about it. Had one of them in here the other day. Issuing
threats and bawling her eyes out in turns like a cross between Osama Bin Laden and
Caitlyn Jenner. Scared the willies out of me, she did. Didn’t understand much
of what she said either, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see her starring
in some ghastly terrorist atrocity in the near future. That or working as a
presenter on the BBC. Hmm… must check up on those Prevent guidelines
and beef up security a bit while I’m at it.”
***
As
you probably guessed about seven paragraphs ago this story is entirely
fictional. Incredible as it may seem, in the real world neither the
vice-chancellor nor the university authorities appear to care in the least that
there is more free speech going on in the average pub than among the 20,000
students at Oxford.
Until the majority wake up to the true nature of the left that you accurately describe, nothing will change, and the grip of the left on our institutions will continue. Those in the majority who see what the left are doing, but do not care, and who never object - these ones deserve what is coming to them. And by 'object' I do not mean standing above the parapet - just stop voting for the far left would be a start.
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Why did you let her talk all over you so easily? Don't you ever let people interrupt you whilst you are trying to make a point because you come across as a speaker with no self-assertion. I suggest you work on it if you want to win a debate.
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