Liberals need to recognise that their ideology is tired, and that it is being supplanted by a new one, which gives its followers a moral purpose, a sense of solidarity, and the hope of achieving genuine social change. The principal critics of this activism are the privileged elites who, while claiming to be defending free speech, can’t tolerate criticism of their own cherished views. It’s common to hear Aurat March and the ideology it supports described as foreign funded, to advance Western interests in Pakistan. Debate isn’t being closed down – the loud protests of those who decry ‘cancel culture’ show that free speech is very much alive and well. It has been riven with controversy ever since its first iteration in 2018, when slogans like Mera Jism, Meri Marzi (My body, my choice) caused public outcry, the event being deemed un-Islamic. Freddie Sayers from online magazine UnHerd seeks out top scientists, writers, politicians and thinkers for in-depth interviews to try and help us work out. What we are witnessing is activism by and on behalf of marginalised groups who are seeking to redress the structural inequalities that have historically held them back. That is a complete misreading of the situation, argue those on the progressive Left. This cannot be a way to create a fairer world and bring everyone on board. Among those convicted of rape and perpetrated rape, the foreign-born account for 47.7 of those convicted, so they are over-represented by a factor of 2.4. And while cancel culture claims to be about achieving social justice, it actually uses the tactics of the oppressor, privileging one set of voices over another. UNHERD On the basis of population records kept by the official agency Statistics Sweden (SCB), approximately 20 (19.7) of the Swedish population are foreign-born individuals. Correct thinking on race and identity has become tantamount to a new religion, with adherents competing to be ever more ‘pure’, heretics being publicly shamed and few people brave enough to step out of line. An environment has been created, they contend, where anyone who expresses doubt or divergence from the progressive orthodoxy risks career-destroying attack. Earlier this month 150 writers, academics and activists signed an open letter lamenting ‘an intolerance of opposing views a vogue for public shaming and ostracism’, which in its turn provoked an angry backlash.Ĭlassic liberals say this ‘cancel culture’ poses a devastating attack on our liberties. Senior journalists and academics, as well as ordinary citizens, have lost their jobs amid storms of protest. And it’s not just celebrities who have been targeted. All have been ‘cancelled’ – denounced on social media for doing or saying something considered wrong or offensive, often on matters to do with race or gender. JK Rowling, Scarlett Johansson, Jodie Comer, Kanye West. There were, Fryer wrote, “no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account”.This event has now finished and is available to watch on demand. Many suspect the real reason for his humiliating treatment was his research showing that African Americans are not disproportionately the targets of lethal violence by the police. A hugely gifted and until recently celebrated black professor of economics at Harvard, he was suspended for two years without pay following the most tenuous sexual harassment claims. More than 70 years later, that sense has manifestly not prevailed. Yet he remained an “epistemological optimist”, hoping that sense would prevail both in the Ivy League and across the nation. Scepticism was banished: to Buckley, political radicals were subverting American society by indoctrinating their students with atheism and collectivism. Its subtitle, The Superstitions of “Academic Freedom”, hinted at the already existing tendency for administrators to hire academics who only teach ideas they deem acceptable. warned in God and Man at Yale of his alma mater’s inability to prepare its students for the real world. Yale and Harvard have come to resemble the mythical Ouroboros, eating their own tails to satisfy an insatiable appetite for conformity. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: virtue signalling on immigration, BLM and MeToo is dangerous 47,209 views 2K Dislike Share UnHerd 277K subscribers Accompanying article here. But in recent years the university has taken on an altogether narrower character. Guest on The Glenn Beck Program, TRIGGERnometry, UnHerd with Freddie Sayers, The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast. What is the point of university? It used to be, when Harvard was founded in 1636, “to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity”. Putinversteher or Putin-Versteher, female form Putinversteherin, integrated form Putinversteherin, is a German neologism and a political buzzword (Putin + verstehen), which literally translates 'Putin understander', i.e., 'one who understands Putin'. 11 episodes totalling 9 hours, 23 minutes.
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