Don't blame me, blame Leicester University.Wooo a leftie rightie thread.
Appear to be engaging in cancel culture.
It also appears to be those pesky lefties they're cancelling, however.
They're being sacked under the auspices of being 'made redundant'. This would not happen if they had a different research agenda, and a different political drive to their research.Are they being sacked or made redundant?
They're being sacked under the auspices of being 'made redundant'. This would not happen if they had a different research agenda, and a different political drive to their research.
Suffice to say their research, their union activity, and their critique of management does not align with a department that puts making money ahead of academic rigour, and the ability to challenge the status quo.
Not really. Various practices you can use to get rid of people you want to legally, and this is one of them - flimsy justifications as to why it's 'redundant' and then hire somebody else a bit later.Yeah but made redundant and sacked is different things isn't it?
Great. Two or three months' salary in some cases and no job. Sure they'll be stoked.Redundancy = pay off though?
Yeah but made redundant and sacked is different things isn't it?
Many ways you can remove people you don't want there, legally. The old classic that happened at one local authority, was to make their posts redundant, then mix up the job descriptions and ask people to re-apply for the 'new' posts... except this time at the bottom of the pay grade or, in some cases, at a lower pay grade with a different job title.The difference is being walked down the stairs to the door as opposed to being thrown out the window. Either way you are out of a job.
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Yeah, that's utter madness - it's not political to tell the full story and, let's face it, rich people usually don't get rich by being nice to everybody! None of us can help what people before us did, but just say it as part of what happened!The National Trust has been under fire for a while now for wanting to inform more of the history of the properties they care for. Such as where the money come from in the first place to build said building. The same people who moan about cancel culture call it rewriting history whereas the reality is it’s un-cancelling history and telling the full history.
Yes, it is completely different. A person gets sacked, a role is made redundantSo it's different to being sacked?
It really isn'tThe difference is being walked down the stairs to the door as opposed to being thrown out the window. Either way you are out of a job.
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Beware poststructuralism eh - don't want any of this Derrida shit around here!I’m sure Toby Young’s Free Speech Union is on the case, and I bet the government will have something to say with their new crusade against cancel culture.
Beware poststructuralism eh - don't want any of this Derrida shit around here!
Are they being sacked or made redundant?
The country is heading in a shocking North Korea direction. The National Trust has been under fire for a while now for wanting to inform more of the history of the properties they care for. Such as where the money come from in the first place to build said building. The same people who moan about cancel culture call it rewriting history whereas the reality is it’s un-cancelling history and telling the full history. Or truth as it’s otherwise known. We’re being cheerleaded into a country where too much education is seen as a bad thing. Pol Pot is looking down smiling. I’m as thick as fuck but I wear glasses so my days will soon be numbered if this direction of travel is allowed to continue.
What utter rot.
I thought Gareth Brown's 'Rationale for sacking' was going to read: "Far too much unauthorised absence spent touring in a ZZ Top tribute act".Don't blame me, blame Leicester University.
The Associate Professor in Finance and Political Economy being dismissed for doing research in Political Economy is especially impressive - as is Gareth Brown's beard.
You can’t speak out about the so called cancel culture and promote the cancellation of our history at the same time. It’s hypocrisy of the highest order and the warnings of such behaviour are still raw and in living memory.What utter rot. How you have managed to weave in the efforts of an institution to make itself more inclusive with a criticism of deplatforming is just so typical of the ad hominem argument used by a minority on this forum. Of course you can support what the Trust are doing whilst decrying deplatfoming.
Simply repeating your assertion does not win your argument. Either you simply fail to comprehend the alternative positions and differing views being put to you, or you are simply be boringly wilful.
I, for one fully support what the Trust is doing just as I, for example, support the right of JK Rowling to express her concerns on the (now pulled) self-identifying gender legislation. The two are neither incompatible or congruent. In fact, I'd say they are very compatible and congruent.
I'd even support that twat Laurence Fox taking a platform to say that what the Trust is doing is revisionism. He might be talking crap, but by doing so he gives the debate the oxygen of publicity. Personally, I'd also allow holocaust deniers to make twats of themselves as well, were it not for the hurt this would bring to those for whom it is a living memory.
Simply repeating your assertion does not win your argument.
So you keep saying. Ironic.Repeating things over and over, battering you into a maddening submission is his speciality.
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You're a hysterical girls blouse Tony. North Korea for goodness sake. Maybe log off for a week and get some air.So you keep saying. Ironic.
Exactly. The self proclaimed “common sense group” of Conservative MP’s want to shut down talk of anything from our history of slavery to the climate crisis while at the same time bemoaning the so called cancel culture. It’s pure duality.You’re missing the point. If you support all that (as do I), you shouldn’t support the government shutting down speech they don’t like. And that’s far more concerning than a few blue fringes having a tantrum.
I would read up on the history of North Korea if I was you. You might find a lot of events that have happened there over the last century alarmingly familiar to what’s happening here in the last decade.You're a hysterical girls blouse Tony. North Korea for goodness sake. Maybe log off for a week and get some air.
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No I wouldn't because I'm not a lunatic who has completely lost grip of reality.I would read up on the history of North Korea if I was you. You might find a lot of events that have happened there over the last century alarmingly familiar to what’s happening here in the last decade.
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