The university’s definition of misconduct
Student being investigated for stating basic facts.
A law student who said that women have vaginas and are not as physically strong as men is being investigated by her university.
Investigated why? For doing what? What is there to investigate?
Disciplinary action is being taken against Lisa Keogh, 29, over “offensive” and “discriminatory” comments that she made during lectures at Abertay University, Dundee.
The mature student was reported by younger classmates after she said women were born with female genitals and that “the difference in physical strength of men versus women is a fact”. The complaints have prompted a formal investigation into her conduct.
Why? Why have the complaints prompted a formal investigation? Where the fuck are the grownups?
Keogh, a final-year student, fears that any sanction could end her dream of becoming a human rights lawyer. Her case is being backed by Joanna Cherry QC, the SNP MP for Edinburgh South West and deputy chairwoman of the Lords and Commons joint committee on human rights, who described the situation as farcical.
Who is more likely to do a good job of being a human rights lawyer, a woman who knows that women have vaginas and are not as physically strong as men or people who think those two statements are reportable and punishable offenses?
The university’s definition of misconduct includes “using offensive language” or “discriminating against gender reassignment”. Punishment can be as harsh as expulsion.
What is “discriminating against gender reassignment”? What can that mean?
Keogh, a mother of two, fears for her future. “I don’t come from a legal background and have worked incredibly hard to get to where I am,” she said.
Yes but being a cis woman cancels all that out.
Yeah, I can just see the cis-privilege at work here.
There is a war against basic biological knowledge being waged by the woke.
Would telling the coplainants to fuck off be considered a micro-aggression, or a macro one?
not Bruce, it would certainly be devastating violence to the asexuals.
Karl Marx famously said (re Napoleon III): “History repeats itself; the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
In this case, he was spot on. Tragedy turning to farce about sums it up, IMHO..
Telling them to fuck off is good.
Unfortunately it’s not enough.at the moment
They have to be met head on in the highest courts in the land.
Then told to fuck off
What is amusing is on the bog standard lefty sites, including sites I otherwise follow and enjoy, the woke dismiss “Cancel Culture” as not existing. The modern British and American left are as “transfactual” as some of the religious right. And are as eager to purity police.
Woman’s Hour had Lisa Keogh on today, without a transgender person for “balance”. She sounded exasperated that she has to go through all this shit after she was asked her opinion about the definition of women in a seminar and gave a commonsense answer. You got the impression that as a mature student with a serious interest in her studies she wasn’t interested in her wokey juniors and had better things to do, like pass her exams and advance her career in law. Her “what is all this stupid crap” attitude sounded even more convincing in a Scottish accent. She did say that the Uni has to investigate any complaint, however vexatious. Toby Young’s Free Speech Union has taken up her case. It is crappy that TY, who is awful, has any right on his side, but that’s where we are. Also Joanna Cherry is a doughty ally.