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St Jarel of Woke and why and eye for an eye won’t do

Considering two recent cases of offensive tweets regarding Captain Sir Tom Moore, Nick Buckley , who has personal experience of ...
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The Neoracists

John McWhorter at Persuasion describes America's third-wave anti-racists as 'millennials with lattes'. A better description still is 'The Elect'. This ...
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DDU Submission on Freedom of Expression

Don't Divide Us would like to offer the following submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights' call for evidence ...
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Free Speech and English Working-Class Identity

In this honest and moving account, Bradley Strotten at The Equiano Project, and ambassador for the newly formed Free Speech ...
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Academia

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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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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Academic Freedom

John McWhorter on why academics fear for their freedom

A national reckoning on race, John McWorther writes, has brought to the fore a loose but committed assemblage of people ...
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Africa

DDU Letter to Minister for Policing Regarding Recording of Non-Criminal Hate Incidents

Last year the police recorded 120,00 non-crime hate incidents. Police recording of incidents that fall short of threshold needed for ...
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Churchill and the Genocide Myth

In February, an academic event at Oxford University presented an ill-informed historical caricature of Winston Churchill's role in the Bengal ...
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Can Victims Forgive?

Written shortly after the death of George Floyd, Marie K. Daouda at The Critic, considers the earlier, parallel case of ...
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A Matter of Historical Specificity (or its absence)

Below, J. Unsworth, a DDU supporter and former student of History and English Literature, explains why she found an event ...
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Arts & Culture

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Black Lives Matter

Why Black Lives Matter are so dangerous

Nick Buckley wrote a blog post criticising Black Lives Matter, and found himself targeted by an online petition to have ...
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Racism is a problem, white people are not

Contemporary politics is often driven by "cultural or psychological anxieties", argues Kenan Malik. We need to consider social and structural ...
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We need to talk about Black Lives Matter

We should be able to discuss Black Lives Matter critically, argues Andrew Doyle, and not simply assume that its objectives ...
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Cancel Culture

On Freedom Of Speech and The Culture Of Offence

Like others before him, in France and elsewhere, Samuel Paty was murdered because he offended. Nico Macdonald at medium.com argues ...
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On The Importance Of The Right To Offend

Kenan Malik at the New Humanist argues that the right to offend is necessary for social progress and that those ...
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John McWhorter on why academics fear for their freedom

A national reckoning on race, John McWorther writes, has brought to the fore a loose but committed assemblage of people ...
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The University of Edinburgh’s crusade against the Enlightenment

Edinburgh University takes yet another step to distance itself from its most important intellectual legacy – the Scottish Enlightenment – ...
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Critical Race Theory

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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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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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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Decolonisation

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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The Danger of ‘Decolonising’ Education

Education activists and diversity consultants claim decolonising education is the same as improving it. Alka Sehgal Cuthbert at Spiked Online ...
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New research on decolonising discourses as a symptom of morbidity

In this new paper by Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, it is argued that the claims of decolonising discourses are a morbid ...
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What would it mean to ‘decolonise’ the Classics?

“What would it mean to ‘decolonise’ the Classics?” asks David Butterfield in The Spectator: Have I really chosen the career ...
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Education

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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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 Universality of Literature- A Response to Calls to Decolonise It

Earlier this year, PGCE lecturer, Lesley Nelson-Addy, wrote in Britain’s leading professional publication for English teachers: The ‘new’ GCSE curriculum ...
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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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Free Speech

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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Critical Race Theory: helpful or harmful?

"What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves but the way in which we think about them".Epictetus ...
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Modern Day Witchfinders Won’t End Hate By Pulling Down Statues – They’ll Only Fuel It

It's one thing to provide a reasoned case for removing the Rhodes statue at Oriel College, but the current demands ...
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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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Racism

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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The Fight to Redefine Racism

Kelefa Sanneh writes on Ibram X's argument for redefining racism, as he believed that we should think of “racist” not ...
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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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The dehumanising condescension of ‘White Fragility’

Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, argues John McWhorter, is "the prayer book for what can only be described as a cult": In ...
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Schools

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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Let kids be kids

The “unconscious bias” theory is detrimental in the fight against racism, argues Ella Whelan: It’s this fetishisation of white self hatred ...
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Is unconscious-bias training the new Brain Gym?

More and more people are recommending that unconscious-bias training should be brought into schools to tackle racism. This is a ...
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Channel 4 – ‘The School That Tried To End Racism’

Last weekend, I watched both episodes of a Channel 4 documentary called The School That Tried To End Racism which ...
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Social Justice

The dehumanising condescension of ‘White Fragility’

Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, argues John McWhorter, is "the prayer book for what can only be described as a cult": In ...
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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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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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White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief

What happens, asks Helen Pluckrose, when an ideology holds that beliefs other than its own are harmful and oppressive of ...
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Systemic Racism

White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief

What happens, asks Helen Pluckrose, when an ideology holds that beliefs other than its own are harmful and oppressive of ...
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Racism is a problem, white people are not

Contemporary politics is often driven by "cultural or psychological anxieties", argues Kenan Malik. We need to consider social and structural ...
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Race is not the disadvantage it once was in the UK

Reflecting on her own experience of growing up in an ethnic minority family in the UK, Shabnam Nasimi wonders whether ...
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The fight to redefine racism

Kelefa Sanneh unpacks the new thinking about race elaborated in Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist and Robin ...
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Universities

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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The ‘Anti-Racism’ Movement Is Sowing Deeper Divisions

Andy Doyle, comedian and founding signatory of DDU, argues that today's so-called anti-racists are based on an illiberal notion masquerading ...
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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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Unconscious Bias

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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The ‘Anti-Racism’ Movement Is Sowing Deeper Divisions

Andy Doyle, comedian and founding signatory of DDU, argues that today's so-called anti-racists are based on an illiberal notion masquerading ...
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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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