Cancelling People has Advantages, Academics Learn at Almost 100 UK Universities

Elvis Dunderhoff June 12, 2022

Yeah, censorship works.

I don’t know why someone would need a study to prove that.

The problem is, that it only works for a while. Censorship is an act of desperation, like doing fentanyl. If you’re really having a bad life and you start doing fentanyl, you’re going to feel a lot better for a while. But fentanyl addiction is not a valid life strategy. Censorship is not a valid method of governance.

The Telegraph:

Cancel culture has “benefits”, academics at almost 100 UK universities have been told as part of an anti-racism course.

The Open University has devised a training programme titled Union Black, backed by £500,000 of Santander investment, which offers teaching staff lessons including “white people have a responsibility to solve the problem of racism”.

Academics taking the course are urged to become “active allies” in advancing racial justice, course materials reveal, and taught about the advantages of “cancelling” people and institutions.

Material in one online module states: “In relation to racial/social justice, cancel culture has been shown to realise benefits.”

Examples of these benefits in the material include “holding people or entities accountable for immoral or unacceptable behaviour” and “promoting collective action to achieve social justice and cultural change through social pressure”.

Course documents also add “motivating allies to reveal themselves”, as an advantage, along with “mobilising public opinion and sharing collective expressions of moral outrage”.

The documents urge “due diligence before effectively ‘cancelling’ someone”, which is an act of making an individual a pariah – often through social media pressure and sometimes to the point of people losing their jobs – that has become a growing issue in academia.

Kathleen Stock lost her role at the University of Sussex amid a social media storm over her comments on transgender issues.

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The Union Black course, launched in 2021, has been taken up by select academics and students in around 90 UK universities, including Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol, and Imperial College London.

Those taking the online course are offered insights on black history, race relations, unconscious bias, and “whiteness”.

Course material – drawn up by anonymous Open University contributors – states that “we still live in a racist society”, adding that “the black/white dynamic and structural racism” play a significant role in “all areas of modern life in western nations”.

It further claims that “white people have a responsibility to solve the problem of racism”, urging those taking the voluntary course to rate how active they are as “allies” in this struggle, with being “non-racist” deemed “not enough”.

Teaching staff and students taking the course are invited to sign a declaration of intent at the close of the course, in which they can acknowledge that “systemic racism is deeply entrenched in society”, and “racism may have influenced what I am being taught and what I am teaching”.

Using the chilling effect to make people afraid to speak their mind will keep people from talking against you. This is true. But you can’t keep people in a constant state of oppression and fear. It just does not work. Eventually the pressure bottles up and it eventually pops. The more aggressive the repression, the quicker it is going to pop.

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