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  • Academia
  • Academic Freedom
  • Africa
  • Arts & Culture
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  • Black Lives Matter
  • Cancel Culture
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Decolonisation
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  • Systemic Racism
  • Universities
  • Unconscious Bias
  • Workplaces [Public Institutions and Professions]

Latest

You Don’t Need To Be Gay To Play A Gay Character

Ella Whelan at Spiked Online points out the problems with Russell T Davies' calls for 'authenticity ' in casting and ...
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Prejudice Under The Microscope: The Implicit Association Test (Part II)

The latest report from the team at Minding the Campus from part of the White Fragility Symposium, provides a forensic ...
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Universities Should Exercise Healthy Scepticism Towards The Universities UK Report

Below two DDU supporters argue why many universities are wrong to uncritically embrace the Universities UK Report, 'Tackling Racial Harassment ...
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Writer Zadie Smith Reflects On Pandemic, Black Lives Matter Movement in ‘Intimations’

Robin Young, at wbur, interviews the ever thoughtful and thought-provoking author, Zadie Smith. Smith, London-born, now lives in New York ...
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Academia

Prejudice Under The Microscope: The Implicit Association Test (Part II)

The latest report from the team at Minding the Campus from part of the White Fragility Symposium, provides a forensic ...
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Universities Should Exercise Healthy Scepticism Towards The Universities UK Report

Below two DDU supporters argue why many universities are wrong to uncritically embrace the Universities UK Report, 'Tackling Racial Harassment ...
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The University and the Social Justice Movement: A French Perspective

Michel Tavernier at Areo wonders why French universities, home of intellectuals closely associated with postmodernism, seem immune from the excesses ...
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Tackling Racism In Higher Ed

In November 2020, the collective voice for Britain’s 140 universities, Universities UK (UUK), issued a set of radical recommendations in ...
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Academic Freedom

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Tackling Racism In Higher Ed

In November 2020, the collective voice for Britain’s 140 universities, Universities UK (UUK), issued a set of radical recommendations in ...
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Free Speech In Cambridge Is Under Threat. We Must Defend It.

Cambridge student Sophie Watson at tcs makes an eloquent case against a  policy that is presented as protecting free speech ...
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Open letter: a response from the ‘100’ French scholars

Following the murder of school teacher Samuel Paty, over 100 French academics published a Manifesto supporting a universalist approach to ...
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Open letter to UCU members and conference delegates

We are members of the University and College Union (UCU). Some of us have been active in organising in branches, ...
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Africa

You Don’t Need To Be Gay To Play A Gay Character

Ella Whelan at Spiked Online points out the problems with Russell T Davies' calls for 'authenticity ' in casting and ...
Read More

Prejudice Under The Microscope: The Implicit Association Test (Part II)

The latest report from the team at Minding the Campus from part of the White Fragility Symposium, provides a forensic ...
Read More

Universities Should Exercise Healthy Scepticism Towards The Universities UK Report

Below two DDU supporters argue why many universities are wrong to uncritically embrace the Universities UK Report, 'Tackling Racial Harassment ...
Read More

Writer Zadie Smith Reflects On Pandemic, Black Lives Matter Movement in ‘Intimations’

Robin Young, at wbur, interviews the ever thoughtful and thought-provoking author, Zadie Smith. Smith, London-born, now lives in New York ...
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Arts & Culture

We’re facing a tsunami of censorship

"The authoritarian tide is rising", warns Toby Young. It's now "open season on mavericks and dissenters". How can we push ...
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Stop apologising for cultural appropriation

The concept of "cultural appropriation” has gone from the esoteric academic realm of post-colonial and decolonial studies, to being a ...
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BBC

The N-Word Is Repellent-But So Is The Belief White People Are Innately Racist

Following a mass of complaints, and predictable subsequent apologies this summer when BBC presenter Fiona Lamdin used the N word, ...
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Black Lives Matter

Trevor Phillips: BLM uses race as ‘battering ram to change society’

Trevor Phillips tells Andrew Neil that Black Lives Matter 'don't really care very much about whether black people are advanced ...
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Critical race theory: a ruling-class ideology

The mainstreaming and elite-backing of anti-racism initiatives is promoting a new form of racial thinking, argues Joanna Williams in spiked ...
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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 ...
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“Black Lives Matter: A Guide to Teaching Sixth Formers about Racism and Inequality”

The Free Speech Union has published a guide written and sent to them by a teacher. Teaching schoolchildren about these ...
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Cancel Culture

The Battle For Eton’s Soul

Toby Young at 'The Spectator' considers the implications for Eton's educational ethos, as well as for the dismissed Mr Knowland, ...
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The Age Of Cant

Theodore Dalrymple at the City Journal considers the differences between the humbug of cant and hypocrisy, which at least has ...
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Arts Policy Should Return To Keynes’ Vision

Manick Govinda at SDPtalk argues against an arts policy whose model of artists and cultural institutions is closer to a ...
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Parr For The Course

Graphic designer and photographer Howard Sherwood considers the case of Martin Parr, whose response to accusations of being racist, along ...
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Critical Race Theory

Trevor Phillips: BLM uses race as ‘battering ram to change society’

Trevor Phillips tells Andrew Neil that Black Lives Matter 'don't really care very much about whether black people are advanced ...
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From Psychotherapist to Psychoactivist: How Therapy is Becoming Derailed

By Val Thomas This is a public health warning: the seal on the tin labelled Counselling and Psychotherapy has been ...
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Critical race theory: a ruling-class ideology

The mainstreaming and elite-backing of anti-racism initiatives is promoting a new form of racial thinking, argues Joanna Williams in spiked ...
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Open Letter to Academics’ Criticism of Government’s Pronouncements on Neutrality and CRT

Last Friday, The Guardian published an open letter from education academics criticising recent government pronouncements on the need for political neutrality ...
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Decolonisation

Open letter: a response from the ‘100’ French scholars

Following the murder of school teacher Samuel Paty, over 100 French academics published a Manifesto supporting a universalist approach to ...
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Open letter to UCU members and conference delegates

We are members of the University and College Union (UCU). Some of us have been active in organising in branches, ...
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We’ve Learned So Much From Dead White Men – Trying To Remove Them From History Is Madness

It's often claimed that accepting or conforming to Western canonical standards necessarily means non-white people have to pay too high ...
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Not All The Facts Fit The Anti-Colonialist Narrative

There have been understandable pressures on African anti-colonialists that have led to a narrative equally reductive and simplistic, if not ...
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Education

Teaching ‘white fragility’ is bad for kids of color

Unless we adopt 'a more humanistic approach, grounded in respect for the common qualities that bind us all', argues Rav ...
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academic skyline

Tackling Racism In Higher Ed

In November 2020, the collective voice for Britain’s 140 universities, Universities UK (UUK), issued a set of radical recommendations in ...
Read More

UUK: ‘Tackling Racial Harassment in Higher Education’ — A Response from Don’t Divide Us

As a group of DDU supporters who work in academia, we feel compelled to draw attention to the potential problems ...
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Cambridge Dons Win Free Speech Row, Defeat New ‘Authoritarian’ Rules

Camilla Turner at The Telegraph interviewed Dr Arif Ahmed, a philosophy lecturer who spearheaded a campaign at Cambridge University to ...
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Free Speech

Cambridge Dons Win Free Speech Row, Defeat New ‘Authoritarian’ Rules

Camilla Turner at The Telegraph interviewed Dr Arif Ahmed, a philosophy lecturer who spearheaded a campaign at Cambridge University to ...
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Free Speech In Cambridge Is Under Threat. We Must Defend It.

Cambridge student Sophie Watson at tcs makes an eloquent case against a  policy that is presented as protecting free speech ...
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The Sound Of Silence

We are used to media stories of students calling for universities to act against many 'isms' and phobias, and often ...
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The Psychology of Critical Race Theory

Psychologist Dr Carole Sherwood analyses Critical Race Theory—and finds it wanting: Critical Race Theory does not provide the best tools ...
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Racism

Critical race theory: a ruling-class ideology

The mainstreaming and elite-backing of anti-racism initiatives is promoting a new form of racial thinking, argues Joanna Williams in spiked ...
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The myth of Britain’s racist universities

The idea has taken hold that British universities are in urgent need of radical reform to overturn entrenched racial discrimination ...
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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 ...
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Why Nobody is Systemically Racist

James Lindsay argues why falling prey to bad theory can make it harder to ascertain moral responsibility where racism is ...
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Schools

Teaching ‘white fragility’ is bad for kids of color

Unless we adopt 'a more humanistic approach, grounded in respect for the common qualities that bind us all', argues Rav ...
Read More

The Battle For Eton’s Soul

Toby Young at 'The Spectator' considers the implications for Eton's educational ethos, as well as for the dismissed Mr Knowland, ...
Read More

Open Letter to Academics’ Criticism of Government’s Pronouncements on Neutrality and CRT

Last Friday, The Guardian published an open letter from education academics criticising recent government pronouncements on the need for political neutrality ...
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The Insidious March of Critical Race Theory In Schools May Be Breaking The Law

In the wake of the BLM protests, many school heads are rushing for help to find resources which accord with ...
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Social Justice

Can You Be For Justice But Against Social Justice?

In this short essay, Isobel Marston, a student of philosophy, considers some problems with current understandings of social justice and ...
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Kirsty Miller on her now cancelled resignation letter to the British Psychology Society

Psychologist Kirsty Miller found the organisation’s behaviour deeply concerning, and after deliberating for a substantial amount of time, decided to ...
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The problem with identity politics

In this Q&A interview, Asad Haider, author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump, reflects on ...
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We’re facing a tsunami of censorship

"The authoritarian tide is rising", warns Toby Young. It's now "open season on mavericks and dissenters". How can we push ...
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Systemic Racism

Critical race theory: a ruling-class ideology

The mainstreaming and elite-backing of anti-racism initiatives is promoting a new form of racial thinking, argues Joanna Williams in spiked ...
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Culture Wars Are About Our Society

Once again history and historiography are in the limelight. One approach involves 'a notion of trust between the generations'. We ...
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Why Nobody is Systemically Racist

James Lindsay argues why falling prey to bad theory can make it harder to ascertain moral responsibility where racism is ...
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On ‘White Fragility’

Robin DiAngelo’s bestseller has "a simple message", argues Matt Taibbi: "there is no such thing as a universal human experience, ...
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Universities

Universities Should Exercise Healthy Scepticism Towards The Universities UK Report

Below two DDU supporters argue why many universities are wrong to uncritically embrace the Universities UK Report, 'Tackling Racial Harassment ...
Read More

The University and the Social Justice Movement: A French Perspective

Michel Tavernier at Areo wonders why French universities, home of intellectuals closely associated with postmodernism, seem immune from the excesses ...
Read More
academic skyline

Tackling Racism In Higher Ed

In November 2020, the collective voice for Britain’s 140 universities, Universities UK (UUK), issued a set of radical recommendations in ...
Read More

UUK: ‘Tackling Racial Harassment in Higher Education’ — A Response from Don’t Divide Us

As a group of DDU supporters who work in academia, we feel compelled to draw attention to the potential problems ...
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Unconscious Bias

Universities Should Exercise Healthy Scepticism Towards The Universities UK Report

Below two DDU supporters argue why many universities are wrong to uncritically embrace the Universities UK Report, 'Tackling Racial Harassment ...
Read More

The University and the Social Justice Movement: A French Perspective

Michel Tavernier at Areo wonders why French universities, home of intellectuals closely associated with postmodernism, seem immune from the excesses ...
Read More
academic skyline

Tackling Racism In Higher Ed

In November 2020, the collective voice for Britain’s 140 universities, Universities UK (UUK), issued a set of radical recommendations in ...
Read More

UUK: ‘Tackling Racial Harassment in Higher Education’ — A Response from Don’t Divide Us

As a group of DDU supporters who work in academia, we feel compelled to draw attention to the potential problems ...
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Workplaces [Public Institutions and Professions]

From Psychotherapist to Psychoactivist: How Therapy is Becoming Derailed

By Val Thomas This is a public health warning: the seal on the tin labelled Counselling and Psychotherapy has been ...
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How We Bend The Knee To Our HR Overlords

Aris Roussinos at Unherd draws on the ideas of Louis Althusser to illuminate how the radical rhetoric of contemporary self-styled ...
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Unconscious Bias Training Is Divisive Nonsense

Many public and private institutions and workplaces are turning to alleged anti-racist training materials and providers that endorse the idea ...
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“I Left the British Psychological Society — And This Is What Happened”

Psychologist Kirsty Miller blogs on Medium about her experience of becoming professionally homeless. [A]fter a great deal of deliberation I ...
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