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October 7, 2020 By counsell

A New (Third) letter to a Vice Chancellor from a Don’t Divide Us supporter

Over on our Universities, you can follow a link to our third letter to a Vice Chancellor

To be told that, simply because of an immutable characteristic, your skin colour, you are actively complicit in the deaths of black people, is psychologically very dangerous. I would question whether it is in fact against equality legislation to make such claims. I have been particularly concerned with an article in the student magazine addressed to “white” members of College, which made sweeping accusations of racism against all white people. We have a number of students with mental health concerns, and a number of students on the autism spectrum, who are liable to take such material rather literally. If we have any real racists in College, they won’t care. It’s the people who are most concerned, and most emotionally and psychologically vulnerable, who will be most impacted and possibly very distressed by this article and other such material.

Filed Under: DDU Letter Tagged With: academia, Black Lives Matter, Featured, racism, universities

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