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muriel_volestrangler

(102,502 posts)
Sat Oct 9, 2021, 06:35 PM Oct 2021

"Stop cancel culture by cancelling people" - even for a Tory MP, this is dumb

Tory MP says using term ‘white privilege’ should be reported as extremism

A Conservative MP has said anyone using the term “white privilege” should be reported to the government’s counter-terror programme, and that teachers who criticise the Conservative party should be sacked.
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[Jonathan] Gullis, who is a former member of the parliamentary education select committee, was speaking at an event organised by the Conservative Friends of Education group. He added: “I hope [using the term white privilege] will be reported, I hope that will be looked into, and any teacher who’s perpetuated it in the classroom ultimately should face a disciplinary hearing at the very least.”
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During the same event, the 31-year-old MP said that teachers should be “sacked” if they criticise the Conservatives. He was elected to the Commons in 2019 for Stoke-on-Trent North.

“The other way we can stop the cancel culture is by actually saying to the woke left lecturers and the woke left teachers – who seem to be becoming more and more apparent – is that ultimately, what’s going to happen if you are going to push your ideology in the classroom there are going to be consequences for you,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/09/tory-mp-says-using-term-white-privilege-should-be-reported-as-extremism

I'd hope he was taken off the education committee when it became apparent that the attempt to educate him had totally failed.
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"Stop cancel culture by cancelling people" - even for a Tory MP, this is dumb (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2021 OP
Wow LeftishBrit Oct 2021 #1

LeftishBrit

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1. Wow
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 01:35 PM
Oct 2021

.we can stop the cancel culture ... by actually saying ...what’s going to happen if you are going to push your ideology in the classroom there are going to be consequences for you,”


THAT is a prime example of cancel culture in itself!!!

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