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Right-thinking academics: why British universities are far from ‘woke’
MILES ALLEN-RHOND has doubts about Suella Braverman’s higher education ‘culture war’
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IN A 2019 speech to the Bruges Group, Suella Braverman accused British universities of being on the wrong side of the “battle against cultural Marxism” (seen as an anti-semitic conspiracy theory given that “cultural Marxism’s” alleged originators were Jewish intellectuals fleeing Nazi Germany).
Since then the Tories have been trying to legislate against higher education “self-censoring” and “forcing people into silence” on behalf of a “progressive monoculture,” as education minister Claire Coutinho puts it.
However, if Braverman and Coutinho were to step inside a university they’d be thrilled to find an awful lot of decidedly un-woke activity.
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