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Oxford University Political Correctness Blowback Encountered

<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Oxford University Fights Militant Black PC and Black Lives Matter Fiasco<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Black Lives Matter as a rallying cry for all types of perceived injustice to blacks has become a very irritating&comma; violence-provoking&comma; obstructive&comma; divisive&comma; issue that distorts reality&period; The creation of the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;slogan” was based on a series of lies which were contrary to the facts of the situations it was based on&period; But the facts don’t matter to the outlaws and misfits carrying the banner forward and expanding the application to all situations with which they disagree&comma; or which do not support their grab for economic and social benefits&period; One of their major pushes is to modify &lpar;rewrite&rpar;&comma; invent&comma; or destroy &lpar;delete&rpar; history&period; This is particularly true as it relates to the history of the Confederacy and the American Civil War&period; Oxford University addresses this issue as it is attempting to influence their history&period; It is my opinion that as this fiasco progresses many people will care less and less about the black lives and will react very strongly&period; Each time I see a reporter or other person stick an unwanted microphone in someone’s face&comma; or an unwanted camera&comma; I have an urge to see that person transgressed against react violently&period; Many &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;in the press” are completely devoid of respect for the rights and persons of those they pursue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I recently&comma; on April 1&comma; 2016&comma; received an e-mail containing the below dissertation which is accredited to Oxford University&period; I do not vouch for the validity of the stated source or authorship&comma; but I believe it accurately states the feelings of the majority of United States of America citizens&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If the author of the document wishes its removal from this site&comma; and provides proof of authorship&comma; I will immediately remove it&period; However&comma; I believe it has great value in statement of and response to the issues&period; The document is presented as received&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The contributor of the e-mail stated&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi; padding-left&colon; 60px&semi;">And this is the answer&comma; in kind&comma; that we should be giving to all those who want to change the history of Texas&&num;8212&semi;as in removing statues of our civil war figures and changing the names on our schools to satisfy the few at the detriment of the many&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi; padding-left&colon; 60px&semi;">Here is the proper answer that Oxford should give to the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Black Lives Matter” types that want Oxford to remove the statue of Rhodes&period;  The pantywaist academics in the US should take note&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"padding-left&colon; 60px&semi;">This letter is a response from Oxford to Black Students attending as Rhodes Scholars to remove the statue of Oxford Benefactor&comma; Cecil Rhodes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>13 February 2016 11&colon;29&colon;18<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Subject&colon; OXFORD &&num;8211&semi; THE FIGHT BACK HAS BEGUN<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Interestingly&comma; Chris Patten &lpar;Lord Patten of Barnes&rpar;&comma; The Chancellor of Oxford University&comma; was on the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 yesterday on precisely the same topic&period; The Daily Telegraph headline yesterday was &&num;8220&semi;Oxford will not rewrite history&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Patten commented &&num;8220&semi;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Education is not indoctrination&period; Our history is not a blank page on which we can write our own version of what it should have been according to our contemporary views and prejudice&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rhodes must fall &quest;&quest;&quest;&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dear Scrotty Students&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cecil Rhodes’s generous bequest has contributed greatly to the comfort and well being of many generations of Oxford students – a good many of them&comma; dare we say it&comma; better&comma; brighter and more deserving than you&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This does not necessarily mean we approve of everything Rhodes did in his lifetime – but then we don’t have to&period; Cecil Rhodes died over a century ago&period; Autres temps&comma; autres moeurs&period; If you don’t understand what this means – and it would not remotely surprise us if that were the case – then we really think you should ask yourself the question&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Why am I at Oxford&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Oxford&comma; let us remind you&comma; is the world’s second oldest extant university&period; Scholars have been studying here since at least the 11th century&period; We’ve played a major part in the invention of Western civilisation&comma; from the 12th century intellectual renaissance through the Enlightenment and beyond&period; Our alumni include William of Ockham&comma; Roger Bacon&comma; William Tyndale&comma; John Donne&comma; Sir Walter Raleigh&comma; Erasmus&comma; Sir Christopher Wren&comma; William Penn&comma; Rep&period; Adam Smith &lpar;D-WA&rpar;&comma; Samuel Johnson&comma; Robert Hooke&comma; William Morris&comma; Oscar Wilde&comma; Emily Davison&comma; Cardinal Newman&comma; Julie Cocks&period; We’re a big deal&period; And most of the people privileged to come and study here are conscious of what a big deal we are&period; Oxford is their alma mater – their dear mother – and they respect and revere her accordingly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And what were your ancestors doing in that period&quest; Living in mud huts&comma; mainly&period; Sure we’ll concede you the short lived Southern African civilisation of Great Zimbabwe&period; But let’s be brutally honest here&period; The contribution of the Bantu tribes to modern civilisation has been as near as damn it to zilch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You’ll probably say that’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;racist”&period; But it’s what we here at Oxford prefer to call &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;true&period;” Perhaps the rules are different at other universities&period; In fact&comma; we know things are different at other universities&period; We’ve watched with horror at what has been happening across the pond from the University of Missouri to the University of Virginia and even to revered institutions like Harvard and Yale&colon; the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;safe spaces”&semi; the &num;blacklivesmatter&semi; the creeping cultural relativism&semi; the stifling political correctness&semi; what Allan Bloom rightly called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the closing of the American mind”&period; At Oxford however&comma; we will always prefer facts and free&comma; open debate to petty grievance-mongering&comma; identity politics and empty sloganeering&period; The day we cease to do so is the day we lose the right to call ourselves the world’s greatest university&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Of course&comma; you are perfectly within your rights to squander your time at Oxford on silly&comma; vexatious&comma; single-issue political campaigns&period; &lpar;Though it does make us wonder how stringent the vetting procedure is these days for Rhodes scholarships and even more so&comma; for Mandela Rhodes scholarships&rpar; We are well used to seeing undergraduates – or&comma; in your case – postgraduates&comma; making idiots of themselves&period; Just don’t expect us to indulge your idiocy&comma; let alone genuflect before it&period; You may be black – &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;BME” as the grisly modern terminology has it – but we are colour blind&period; We have been educating gifted undergraduates from our former colonies&comma; our Empire&comma; our Commonwealth and beyond for many generations&period; We do not discriminate over sex&comma; race&comma; colour or creed&period; We do&comma; however&comma; discriminate according to intellect&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That means&comma; inter alia&comma; that when our undergrads or post grads come up with fatuous ideas&comma; we don’t pat them on the back&comma; give them a red rosette and say&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ooh&comma; you’re black and you come from South Africa&period; What a clever chap you are&excl;”  No&period; We prefer to see the quality of those ideas tested in the crucible of public debate&period; That’s another key part of the Oxford intellectual tradition you see&colon; you can argue any damn thing you like but you need to be able to justify it with facts and logic – otherwise your idea is worthless&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This ludicrous notion you have that a bronze statue of Cecil Rhodes should be removed from Oriel College&comma; because it’s symbolic of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;institutional racism” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;white slavery”&period; Well even if it is – which we dispute – so bloody what&quest; Any undergraduate so feeble-minded that they can’t pass a bronze statue without having their &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;safe space” violated really does not deserve to be here&period; And besides&comma; if we were to remove Rhodes’s statue on the premise that his life wasn’t blemish-free&comma; where would we stop&quest; As one of our alumni Dan Hannan has pointed out&comma; Oriel’s other benefactors include two kings so awful – Edward II and Charles I – that their subjects had them killed&period; The college opposite – Christ Church – was built by a murderous&comma; thieving bully who bumped off two of his wives&period; Thomas Jefferson kept slaves&colon; does that invalidate the US Constitution&quest; Winston Churchill had unenlightened views about Muslims and India&colon; was he then the wrong man to lead Britain in the war&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Actually&comma; we’ll go further than that&period; Your Rhodes Must Fall campaign is not merely fatuous but ugly&comma; vandalistic and dangerous&period; We agree with Oxford historian RW Johnson that what you are trying to do here is no different from what ISIS and the Al-Qaeda have been doing to artefacts in places like Mali and Syria&period; You are murdering history&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And who are you&comma; anyway&comma; to be lecturing Oxford University on how it should order its affairs&quest; Your &num;rhodesmustfall campaign&comma; we understand&comma; originates in South Africa and was initiated by a black activist who told one of his lecturers &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;whites have to be killed”&period; One of you – Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh – is the privileged son of a rich politician and a member of a party whose slogan is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Kill the Boer&semi; Kill the Farmer”&semi; another of you&comma; Ntokozo Qwabe&comma; who is only in Oxford as a beneficiary of a Rhodes scholarship&comma; has boasted about the need for &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;socially conscious black students” to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;dominate white universities&comma; and do so ruthlessly and decisively&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Great&period; That’s just what Oxford University needs&period; Some cultural enrichment from the land of Winnie Mandela&comma; burning tyre necklaces&comma; an AIDS epidemic almost entirely the result of government indifference and ignorance&comma; one of the world’s highest per capita murder rates&comma; institutionalised corruption&comma; tribal politics&comma; anti-white racism and a collapsing economy&period; Please name which of the above items you think will enhance the lives of the 22&comma;000 students studying here at Oxford&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And then please explain what it is that makes your attention grabbing campaign to remove a listed statue from an Oxford college more urgent&comma; more deserving than the desire of probably at least 20&comma;000 of those 22&comma;000 students to enjoy their time here unencumbered by the irritation of spoilt&comma; ungrateful little tossers on scholarships they clearly don’t merit using racial politics and cheap guilt-tripping to ruin the life and fabric of our beloved university&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Understand us and understand this clearly&colon; you have everything to learn from us&semi; we have nothing to learn from you&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yours&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Oriel College&comma; Oxford<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;dailymail&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;article-8428313&sol;Black-Lives-Matter-protesters-march-Oxford-ahead-meeting-Cecil-Rhodes-statues-future&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Oxford University and BLM<&sol;a><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<a class&equals;"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox" data-provider&equals;"facebook" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow" title&equals;"Share on Facebook" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;sharer&period;php&quest;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;squeekx&period;com&percnt;2F2016&percnt;2F04&percnt;2F03&percnt;2Foxford-university-political-correctness-blowback-encountered&percnt;2Famp&percnt;2F&&num;038&semi;t&equals;Oxford&percnt;20University&percnt;20Political&percnt;20Correctness&percnt;20Blowback&percnt;20Encountered&&num;038&semi;s&equals;100&&num;038&semi;p&&num;091&semi;url&&num;093&semi;&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;squeekx&period;com&percnt;2F2016&percnt;2F04&percnt;2F03&percnt;2Foxford-university-political-correctness-blowback-encountered&percnt;2Famp&percnt;2F&&num;038&semi;p&&num;091&semi;images&&num;093&semi;&&num;091&semi;0&&num;093&semi;&equals;&&num;038&semi;p&&num;091&semi;title&&num;093&semi;&equals;Oxford&percnt;20University&percnt;20Political&percnt;20Correctness&percnt;20Blowback&percnt;20Encountered" style&equals;"font-size&colon; 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