It is very heartening to see people of such caliber stand up against the tyranny of the petty bourgeois that often strangles the operational parameters of the halls of academia today. I recall in my own days in university the many calls for a boycott of South Africa, with the obvious failure of the self-styled moralists behind such that the boycott was directly harming, mostly, the very people it was intended to help, the black population.
In my personal observations, these boycott calls are often driven by the most marginalized, and poorest grades, of the institutions they haunt. There is nothing wrong with raising moralistic issues, but trying to harm people, point blanc, as a means of doing so is petty, obtuse, tyrannical and oppression incarnate. No room for dissension without being labeled a "so-and-so".
One would hope that this sort of temperament would have been overcome before graduating high school. The Union shames British academia by such childish and transparent antics. |
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