My main response to the Rhodes statue carry on is to resent the reporting of student activity as inherently newsworthy, something that never used to happen.
Likewise, would the trial and acquittal of a 21-year-old taxpaying garage mechanic for rape have made the front page of the Daily Mail?
But Douglas Murray
A decade and a half later, he still believes in neoconservatism.
That would be almost excusable (if, now as then, extremely unusual) in a late adolescent, at least if he were a product of a highly eccentric education.
But, now as then, it is utterly inexcusable in a grown man.
Never mind in a purported arbiter of adulthood.
Students are now drowned in political correctness-Tim Stanley was banned from giving a pro life speech at Oxford Union where IRA apologists have appeared. There were violent protests when UKIP were invited. Now a "colonialist" statue is to be removed.
ReplyDeleteThe brave new leftwing world where as Peter Hitchens said, conservative words and thoughts are not allowed any more.
He's been saying that since before you were born, and he certainly spoke at a university recently, because I had a very interesting conversation with him afterwards.
DeleteIn my long experience of these matters, left-wing students are the most Politically Incorrect people imaginable, and increasingly so. Certainly, those energised by Jeremy Corbyn are.