Post by naughtyfox on Jan 22, 2020 15:41:16 GMT
The University of Sheffield is to pay students to tackle so-called "microaggressions" - which it describes as "subtle but offensive comments".
They will be trained to "lead healthy conversations" about preventing racism on campus and in student accommodation.
The students will be paid £9.34 per hour as "race equality champions", working between two and nine hours per week to tackle "microaggressions" in the university.
These are described as comments or actions which might be unintentional, but which can cause offence to a minority group.
It gives examples of what it means by microaggression - such as:
"Stop making everything a race issue"
"Why are you searching for things to be offended about?"
"Where are you really from?"
www.bbc.com/news/education-51098539
"Apparently, the higher ups at Sheffield University are advertising for twenty students (and later, more) to become snitches against fellow students who dare to utter anything that isn’t on the approved list. Officially though, they will be known as ‘Race and Equality Champions’, and they’ll be paid £9 per hour to look out for ‘hate speech’ and ‘microaggressions’. Nice little earner, if you’re a nasty little prick who likes to earwig on other people’s conversations and report them for not being politically correct."
"This concept is not new. Forms of it were used in such beacons of freedom as China, the Soviet Union, East Germany and Nazi Germany."
"If someone has committed a serious crime, then fair enough, by all means dob them in, but reporting someone because they’ve said something that offends you, in a country that allegedly has free speech, that’s a sign you’re an out and out twat."
"Our very own Gestapo paying for little weasel twats to grass people up for “wrong speak.” "
"this ominous shit is reminiscent of the junior Gestapo agents functioning as internal political police, ferreting out disloyalty and denouncing anyone who criticized Hitler or Nazism, sometimes including their own parents.
One case involved a teenager named Walter Hess who turned in his father for calling Hitler a crazed maniac. His father was then hauled off to Dachau."
"Presumably, candidates will also have to sit some kind of test to prove their own thought purity on all matters concerned with race and ethnicity. Will the student race-equality champions have a uniform or a badge so that they can be easily identified by victims of a microagression? Or will they go incognito, perhaps pressing ears up to doors or loitering in bars to catch unintentional racists unawares? If they have to sit in cafés and pubs, ears on full alert, will they be able to claim expenses for the drinks they’ll have to consume? Or will they just stand, backs against the wall, fingers hovering over their phone’s record button?
Will they be paid a commission for the numbers they inform on? What about snitches, sorry – champions – who find no sinners, no matter how hard they try? Will they risk losing their jobs?"
They will be trained to "lead healthy conversations" about preventing racism on campus and in student accommodation.
The students will be paid £9.34 per hour as "race equality champions", working between two and nine hours per week to tackle "microaggressions" in the university.
These are described as comments or actions which might be unintentional, but which can cause offence to a minority group.
It gives examples of what it means by microaggression - such as:
"Stop making everything a race issue"
"Why are you searching for things to be offended about?"
"Where are you really from?"
www.bbc.com/news/education-51098539
"Apparently, the higher ups at Sheffield University are advertising for twenty students (and later, more) to become snitches against fellow students who dare to utter anything that isn’t on the approved list. Officially though, they will be known as ‘Race and Equality Champions’, and they’ll be paid £9 per hour to look out for ‘hate speech’ and ‘microaggressions’. Nice little earner, if you’re a nasty little prick who likes to earwig on other people’s conversations and report them for not being politically correct."
"This concept is not new. Forms of it were used in such beacons of freedom as China, the Soviet Union, East Germany and Nazi Germany."
"If someone has committed a serious crime, then fair enough, by all means dob them in, but reporting someone because they’ve said something that offends you, in a country that allegedly has free speech, that’s a sign you’re an out and out twat."
"Our very own Gestapo paying for little weasel twats to grass people up for “wrong speak.” "
"this ominous shit is reminiscent of the junior Gestapo agents functioning as internal political police, ferreting out disloyalty and denouncing anyone who criticized Hitler or Nazism, sometimes including their own parents.
One case involved a teenager named Walter Hess who turned in his father for calling Hitler a crazed maniac. His father was then hauled off to Dachau."
"Presumably, candidates will also have to sit some kind of test to prove their own thought purity on all matters concerned with race and ethnicity. Will the student race-equality champions have a uniform or a badge so that they can be easily identified by victims of a microagression? Or will they go incognito, perhaps pressing ears up to doors or loitering in bars to catch unintentional racists unawares? If they have to sit in cafés and pubs, ears on full alert, will they be able to claim expenses for the drinks they’ll have to consume? Or will they just stand, backs against the wall, fingers hovering over their phone’s record button?
Will they be paid a commission for the numbers they inform on? What about snitches, sorry – champions – who find no sinners, no matter how hard they try? Will they risk losing their jobs?"