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| University and College Union Says Anyone Can ‘Self-Identify’ as Black |
| 2019-11-18 |
| [BREITBART] The University and College Union (UCU) has declared that anyone can “self-identify” as “black, disabled, LGBT+ or women”. “UCU has a long history (from predecessor unions) of enabling members to self-identify whether that is being black, disabled, LGBT+ or women [sic],” a six-page position statement from the union, which “represents over 120,000 academics, lecturers, trainers, instructors, researchers, managers, administrators, computer staff, librarians and postgraduates in universities, colleges, prisons, adult education and training organisations across the UK.” “UCU supports the right of all women (including trans women) to safe spaces… UCU also supports a social, rather than a medical, model of gender recognition that will help challenge repressive gender stereotypes in the workplace and in society,” the statement added. The document focused primarily on gender like this, but that reference to “enabling members to self-identify whether that is being black, disabled, LGBT+ or women” was repeated three times. I would say that self-identifying as disabled would be fraud. Of course, I'd call Rachel Dolezal a fraud, and Elizabeth Warren a fraud. If you call yourself a woman while you still have a dangling participle, I think that's fraudulent, too, but obviously I'm old-fashioned. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 My best to you and your daughter, SM. Glad to see you're ready and willing to lawyer up. Only court precedents will kill this idiocy. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-18 21:03 |
| #14 Morons. They haven't thought this through at all. I have a daughter with Down syndrome. I've been saving for her to attend a two year special education program at our local state college since she was three: a little bit out of each paycheck for years. They only take a dozen or so students each year, so it's kind of a long shot. I accept that. But if in a few years I find out that she didn't get a spot because somebody "self-identified" as disabled got it, there WILL be hell to pay. In court, in editorials, and in elections. I swear this on Crom's Wheel of Pain. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2019-11-18 20:24 |
| #13 Here's your chance to join Lambda Lambda Lambda. |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2019-11-18 19:24 |
| #12 Pro2K, it is our family oral history this whole move to Europe started when cousin Oog took the families prized hand ax and broke it! Great how many times Grandpapa said how can an idiot break a rock? Whe are moving as far as wr can go to get away from these morons! Then there is the story about the traveling flint trader and the Neanderthals, that's a real hoot too, |
| Posted by: Bugs Prince of the Danes7415 2019-11-18 14:05 |
| #11 Well, the Settled Science(tm) says we all originated in Africa. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-18 11:31 |
| #10 In all seriousness, this is precisely the scam that most of our Ivy League and other elite university affirmative action recipients fall back on. People like Fartacus, Zero, KamalHo, young Ms Jeralyn Luther of Yale (aka the screaming c--t whose deranged tantrum led to a pussified Yale president's railroading of two tenured and beloved Yale professors)-- all of these despicable con artists are biracial, not "black." They're the spawn of extremely well-off families who faced no disadvantage or suffered any grievance whatsoever. KamalHo's Jamaican dad recently told an interview that his grandfather owned slaves! Affirmative action is a hustle. Long outlived it's shelf life, and needs to be shut down. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-11-18 10:07 |
| #9 I self identify as a Martian. It says so on the last census form. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2019-11-18 09:41 |
| #8 If I self-identify as black, can I get a scholarship? |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-11-18 09:10 |
| #7 I self-identify as an asshole. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-11-18 08:36 |
| #6 Yes, but 200 points are deducted from your SAT. |
| Posted by: Slomomp Shaper6028 2019-11-18 08:13 |
| #5 Self-identifying as someone who you are not doesn't work. For example, see Pocahontas or Rachel Anne Dolezal. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-11-18 07:58 |
| #4 The trouble is this ruins their sinecures for their mirror world racism. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-11-18 04:52 |
| #3 Can I self identify as a tenured professor? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-11-18 04:19 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-11-18 01:53 |
| #1 Great! Where's my reparations and cushy civil service gig? |
| Posted by: charger 2019-11-18 00:31 |