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   Carolen (carolen@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 23:41:54 JST Carolen
   University threatened with legal action after protest at academic's talk
   
   She alleged that her freedom of speech was restricted in a number of ways, including:
   
   The number of attendees being restricted to 60 staff, postgraduate students and members of the public
   
   Undergraduate students being prohibited from attending
   
   Limited advertising being provided for the event
   
   A venue for the event being chosen which was vulnerable to protests
   
   Reasonable steps not being taken to prevent the talk being disrupted
   
   Prof Sullivan told the BBC it was like a "zombie apocalypse" as some protesters pressed up against the window with placards and loudhailers.
   
   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyx3y84ln9o
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 23:41:54 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @carolen What wanking ignoramuses they are, so much for learning.

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     Spookster Limp Gourd (virvallis@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 00:00:58 JST Spookster Limp Gourd

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     • HebrideanHecate
     @HebrideanHecate @carolen They need to stop celebrating activism:
     
     Alice Sullivan is Professor of Sociology at UCL and Head of Research at UCL’s Social Research Institute.14 To quote her bio, “She has published on areas including: social class and sex differences in educational attainment, single-sex and co-educational schooling, private and grammar schools, cultural capital, reading for pleasure, social mobility, and health inequalities.”
     
     Her ‘sin’, in the eyes of the activists, is to be a gender critical feminist. After playing an important role in a successful judicial review to seek to prevent the ONS mangling the questions on sex and gender in the census,15 she authored a government review into how to appropriately collect data on sex and gender during statistical data collection.
     
     This week, after being invited to give a talk on sex and gender stats at Bristol University, the lecture theatre was mobbed by Trans activists, to such an extent that the talk was moved to a higher floor, and mounted police were required in order for the lecture to continue.
     
     It is, of course, good that the university permitted the talk to continue16 and that police were there - but how could it ever have got to a situation that protesters knew they could act with such impunity that police would be required?
     
     https://www.edrith.co.uk/p/the-progressive-left-has-a-rule-of
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 00:00:58 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     • Spookster Limp Gourd
     @virvallis @HebrideanHecate @carolen It's the abusers' charter - look what you made me do; I wouldn't have had to get violent if you didn't say or do anything that made me angry, and my being angry is proof that you said or did something wrong.
     Looking at two-tier policing, this is the rational behind all of it.
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 00:05:29 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     • HebrideanHecate
     @HebrideanHecate @carolen The drive to open a university-level education to all has been disastrous. Because it is meant to be for a small above-average cohort, but has expanded to include those average and below, it is no longer education but training. That's why we have lots of well-trained seals who don't understand anything but can bark mantras on demand and can enjoy intimidating people in the name of *kindness* and *inclusion* with a sense of smug entitlement.
     Lecturers have created this. They get to have cushy jobs funded by the student loan scheme to churn out legions of activists. In turn this elite overproduction churns out lots of Isla Bumbas and has to create non-jobs for them (NHS Diversity Officers anyone?) to ensure that the nonsense on stilts (critical race theory, climate change, genderwoo etc etc) is everywhere. The MSM promote it and its ubiquity is conflated with its veracity.
     Meanwhile, students promised a superior job by means of a *degree* are wondering why the only job they can get is in Costa (not even the state can make everyone a *diversity officer*), and then get angry with anyone who has worked to build a business or has a better paid job. The culture of entitlement is all they know, so they seek to smash a system because they cannot create anything. They blame anything and everything except the faux education that created the mess they live in.
     This has been going on for a while. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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     RadicalCartoons (radicalcartoons@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 00:41:15 JST RadicalCartoons

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     @carolen What does anyone expect from the University of Woke-hell-hole Bristol?
     Has this academic had her head up her backside for the last 10 years?
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 00:41:59 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma @carolen Damn right it was a disaster, and you're 100% right in all that.

     Himself said he used to want to be a don, the idea of the lonely Platonist in his tower etc appealed when he was young, but he began to realise he was decades too late for that and that none of them were going to see much out of their degrees...except the friend who did medicine...but at least they weren't in debt for it. All of them were clever too, as in properly academically so, and not low grade scrape ins like now, he did start a PhD but because the silly sod didn't take the Cambridge offer, he was there for a bit, he came back to Glasgow and the subject wasn't really what he wanted there he decided sod it. He's very glad now he didn't get it all, seeing the absolute state of the universities.

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     RadicalCartoons (radicalcartoons@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 00:42:12 JST RadicalCartoons

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     • KeepTakingTheSoma
     @KeepTakingTheSoma @HebrideanHecate @carolen The culprit is the Demon, Tony Blair.
     
     As an atheist, I never thought I would ever use words like "evil" and "demon", but here I am in my 6th decade, using them more & more.
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 00:42:12 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     • RadicalCartoons
     @RadicalCartoons @HebrideanHecate @carolen You are not wrong.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 11:35:11 JST HebrideanHecate

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     • RadicalCartoons

     @RadicalCartoons @KeepTakingTheSoma @carolen Oh, whatever their source they are real enough, at least in the sense that some people are, and he certainly is.

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