The snowflake and gammon thread.

[Drog]

Two nouns that until very recently meant what they were intended for but have somehow been hi-jacked of late to describe something totally unrelated and completely different.

However... Lot's of polarised views appearing in the press and media these days that we may as well have a thread for them.
1st up the good students of the University of Manchester who from the names mentioned appear to have allowed their Union to be taken over by a few heavily agenda'd activist types.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/991076/snowflake-students-kipling-racism-university-of-manchester

 

[Alan]

Nick Ferrari talks a lot of sense.

 

[Drog]

He does and he's good at putting it across.

 

[OnlyOneTugay]

Wonderful poem , one of the few I learnt by heart . I can still recite it from beginning to end .

These adolescents will eventually grow up or alternatively become life members of Corbyn's Momentum Labour Party

By the way I've no objection to Maya Angelou's work , I've read " I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings " an excellent book ( 7 volumes ) which I really enjoyed .

A more mature /enlightened approach would have been to put both poems side by side and allow students to compare and critically analyse . To remove Kipling's work is reminiscent of the Nazi book burning in the 1930s

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

I think the best way to look at this is students have a lot of time on their hands and a seemingly innate desire to change the world (I didn't, but apparently a lot do). If there's nothing actually bad to protest, or its not fashionable to protest the bad things, then they will invent things to describe as bad and protest them.

The worst way to look at it is this country has been quietly invaded by Islam and they are beginning to make themselves heard. Malia Bhouattia, former NUS president, was an open anti-semite. And now we've got NUS general secretary Fatima Abid launching attacks on the empire.

God knows how many other anti-west, anti-white and anti-male figureheads are now entrenched in positions throughout education. Hardline Muslims know that if you dominate education, eventually you dominate everything.

 

[Drog]

The power grab of the unions is an old tactic harking back to the 70's when communists invaded just about every Trade Union. This time around it seems they are retiring to lurk in the shadows of Momentum whilst covert muslim ambition is elbowing them aside.