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The Fortnightly Squib*
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Adam Habib v scrotty students (courtesy: James Delingpole of The Spectator)
Poor Adam Habib. Just when he thought he could get a break from running one of our universities, he has been walloped by the nasty and vindictive snowflakes masquerading as students at SOAS London University.
Habib did the unthinkable – he said the ’n-word’ out loud, uttering each of its 6 letters, when explaining that anyone at the SOAS London University who used ’n….r’ would be disciplined.
A 20 year-old student accused him thus: “You are not a black man, you cannot use the word, regardless of your lived experience.” “You have not faced the trauma and the oppression of black bodies, what we go (sic) through 24/7 for the last 500 years.
“You do not embody our history, therefore, you cannot use the word.”
In an attempt to apologise, Habib says he comes from “a part of the world where when someone use it, context matters”.
Poor Adam Habib he failed to realise that ‘context’ is to critical race theorists what garlic is to Dracula.
The upshot? So far? The union, Unison for professional and support staff, voted virtually in unison for his removal as director of SOAS – voted for Habib’s removal, 98%, abstained, 2, brave enough to call this out for the witch burning that it is, 0.
Nelson Mandela Foundation & SA Human Rights Commission v the late, unlamented Jon Qwelane
The institution least likely to uphold Nelson Mandela’s ethos, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, has told the ConCourt that late columnist Jon Qwelane may have died “but his words – and the wounds they wrought – have not”.
The court asked whether the orders from the Equality Court declaring that Qwelane’s infamous 2008 Sunday World column amounted to hate speech and ordering him to apologise were now moot.
The SA Human Rights Commission’s counsel, Tembeka ‘the bae’ Ngcukaitobi SC, said a declaration by the highest court would send a “strong message to all that hateful speech directed at the LGBTQA+ community will not be accepted by this society”.
Friend of the court, the Psychological Society of SA, said: “LGBTI communities have been waiting for 13 years for some public acknowledgement of their pain.”
Would it a tad insensitive to suggest that any pain actually felt by the LGBTI communities has diminished after 13 years and that the ‘strong message’ has long been absorbed by those who care and will never be absorbed by those who don’t.
[Photo: Morapedi Mashashe for News24]
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