The new agenda of the "progressive" left appears to have moved away from the inclusiveness preached by civil rights activists in the 60s to today where the left wants to define people by their colour and historical background, and install a perverse apartheid.

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"There is an article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy written by a sympathetic academic that expresses it thus: “ The demand is not for inclusion within the fold of ‘universal humankind’ on the basis of shared human attributes; nor is it for respect ‘in spite of’ one’s differences. Rather, what is demanded is respect for oneself as different.”

Note that when members of a particular identity group demand respect for “oneself as different” they are not talking about respecting each person’s individuality and agency. On the contrary, they insist that people accept being defined by their identity and that they stick to the accepted script, the particular narrative of victim-hood, that pertains to their group. Members of each victim group are urged to claim ownership of — indeed, to be extremely proprietorial about — all aspects of their culture, including ephemera such as clothing and cuisine. We must all stick to our own cultural reservation. To violate this tenet is to commit the high crime of “cultural appropriation”.

American writer Lionel Shriver delivered a brilliant critique of this mentality and its deadening effect on fiction writing at the Brisbane Writers Festival last weekend, to the horror of organisers, who immediately disavowed her remarks.

And woe betide anyone who breaches this cardinal rule, as dissenters from within Islamic culture such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali have found. They will be pilloried in progressive media and will face attempts to bar them from speaking on campuses and elsewhere, as when Hirsi Ali was barred from speaking recently at Brandeis University in the US at the behest of a coalition of “progressive” student groups."

If ever there was a case for re-education camps, they should start by rounding up the retards that masquerade as students at universities.
It's funny you know this upside-down world, I thought university was for people who weren't yet qualified to have an opinion, and that it was about learning, not preaching to others.

The over privileged subversive left students with their mentality of deserving everything for nothing should really be placed in work-camps instead.

AC,

Right on. Did you read Bolt's blog today? Yassmin Abdel-Magied, lady ABC presenter and Muslim, at Shriver's talk, told her mother (also there), that "... I can't sit here....I cannot legitimise this...".

She apparently did sit there, though.

I've only seen the lady twice on TV, and had no idea that she was Muslim. Easy on the eye, attractive in a cheeky way, snug jeans, and well-suited to the job. And I still think that. But it is certain that when the get hooked on identity politics, the individuality fades.

Of course the left and Islam are arm in arm. Their ABC said that Shriver veered from her remit, and they were caught unawares. Sooooo sorry, and all that.

Armchair Critic,

Is it the students, or even the university administrators, where there is this lurking in the background? See here,

"Triggs, HRC accused of ‘shameful conduct’ in 18c students case

Human Rights Commission staff and president Gillian Triggs were accused in a racial hatred case yesterday of “stooping” to a ­regrettable low in a desperate ­attempt to “avoid scrutiny of their shameful conduct” against university students.

In an escalating row between the students, indigenous staff member Cindy Prior, who ejected them from their Queensland University of Technology’s “culturally safe” computer lab ­because they were white, and the commission, the human rights body is coming under unprecedented scrutiny.

Disclosures of the commission’s internal workings in dozens of pages of documents, obtained under Freedom of Information and showing the handling of Ms Prior’s Racial Discrimination Act complaint against the students, were cited by Brisbane barrister Tony Morris QC in a scathing legal attack launched yesterday.

Professor Triggs last week urged independent barrister Angus Stewart SC to stop investigations into the complaints by students Calum Thwaites, Jackson Powell and Alex Wood that their human rights had been ­“flagrantly” breached by the ­commission.."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/triggs-hrc-accused-of-shameful-conduct-in-18c-students-case/news-story/54565410fa226b60b076ed25e8c62571

Any investigation into Triggs and her gang is welcome.

Of course the greens are the worst, with anti semitism rampant in their ranks.

The left wing of the labor party has just had to purge a few blatant cases of anti semitism, but with the idiot Jeremy Corbin calling Hamas and Hezbollah his friends, there is a long way to go.