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Originally Posted by armand.kay
Does anyone in this thread actually bother researching things for themselves?? I'm not surprised at the ignorance tho because after all this is a forum where people have actually posted that black people are savage.
https://www.change.org/p/goldsmiths-...cer-goldsmiths
Read this.
As a diversity officer her job is to create safe spaces for marginalised groups and that's what she was doing. Find out what a safe space is and why some people feel it's important.
As for the hashtag it's wrong but it's purely coming from a place of frustration at being the victim of marginalisation and institutional racism. It's not because she's racist herself. People seem to care more about harassing this woman (she's had her address leaked, threats etc) over a hashtag that carries no real weight than actually dealing with the issue on hand, structural oppression, which is an actual problem in society unlike a little hashtag. Btw, where was the outrage when #KillAllMuslims was trending worldwide recently? People/the media seem to care more about demonising this woman than actually thinking about why minorities feel they need a safe space in the first place.
@Empire As a white man you haven't ever been structurally oppressed so don't tell marginalised groups to deal with it just because it's apparently worse everywhere else. And the fact that you think "the likes of her" (what a nice choice of words) are apparently "spoiled" just proves how totally out of touch you are with the reality Hun. |
It was not possible to alight upon this article/petition which you link because at the time of first reading the main story, the petition did not exist - it came after the event and backlash.
And this; 'Goldsmiths Solidarity' Armand - is it an 'official' body of the University? Or merely friends of Ms Bahar Mustafa rallying to her rescue?
I do not condone any racism of any type but when it issues from the mouth of ANY official of one of our universities then it it's unacceptability is compounded.
She has no place being employed in any official capacity in one of our universities and there is NO mitigation for her comments whether she was 'jesting' or not - which I personally doubt.
I can imagine the hullaballoo had it been a white 'Diversity Officer' who had publicly proclaimed; 'Kill Coloured men' or similar.
Two things have to be borne in mind here;
A) Whilst being completely aware of her position, she freely ELECTED to write what she did and use the terminology she did .
B) Over the past 50 years, a lot of our universities have become increasingly politicised and radical, and have been guilty of inviting Muslim hate Preachers and other anti-Western, anti-Democratic hate mongers to preach from their lecterns, whilst - as Empire correctly points out - publicly denying UKIP the same opportunity.
Racism exists and should not be tolerated, but it IS a sword that swings both ways.