Don't Divide Us

The UK’s common sense voice on race - RTs ≠ endorsements

[Don't Divide Us @DontDivideUsNow]

A very good long read on the intellectual and ethical freewill that flows when institutions - including Cambridge and the Church of England - pay unquestioning obeisance to their own ideological conformity : https://t.co/goHGrVvuki

[Don't Divide Us @DontDivideUsNow]

Without a practical commitment to the pursuit of truth, just what is a university for? The misuse of history in an attempt to rewrite an entirely negative founding history of Britain is a grave abduction of public duty by Cambridge: https://t.co/PBmzyOdjt2

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@rupertwegerif The comment is more about the faculty than the individual person.

[Don't Divide Us @DontDivideUsNow]

If Ahmed were one member of staff in a faculty where proper scholars and scholarly study dominated, it might matter less. But we know more and more by the day, that this is not the case in our universities - especially in departments of education. There may be good scholars still there in some faculties, but they work in spite of, not because of, the overall ethos: https://t.co/wm4jIFPHEl

[Don't Divide Us @DontDivideUsNow]

https://t.co/PTf1rzPwBv DDU Director will be speaking with interested professionals on why the Equality Act contributes to the rise of uncivil workplaces.

[Don't Divide Us @DontDivideUsNow]

When 'uncaring kindness is easier than telling the truth' - our culture as a whole suffers - applies to Cambridge as well as the Church of England: https://t.co/ypZanslajU

[Joanna Williams @jowilliams293]

By me on...
After Jason Arday’s Death, a New Push Against Free Expression in the U.K. https://t.co/rcgfEdQThL

[Don't Divide Us @DontDivideUsNow]

DDU and many public figures support defending press and academic freedom against calls to curb both in response to Arday's sad death being blamed on racism of the press. Our letter is in The Times! (6th letter down): https://t.co/bkVotIU0jl

[Committee for Academic Freedom @ComAcFreedom]

More than 700 academics and researchers have now signed an open letter to Ghent University opposing the preventive suspension of Dr Nathan Cofnas and raising concerns about the disciplinary proceedings against him.

Organised by CAF Advisory Board members Professor John Armstrong and Professor Abhishek Saha, together with Professor Michael Biggs, the letter defends the freedom of academics to scrutinise the work of other scholars and warns against allowing claims of distress or threatened boycotts to become grounds for action against the academic whose expression generated them.

If you share these concerns, help keep up the pressure on Ghent University to do the right thing.

Join the 700+ academics and researchers with an ORCID ID who have already signed 👇

https://t.co/cjUmwpSFG3

@ObhishekSaha @johnarmstrong5 @ProfAliceS @Fox_Claire

[Don't Divide Us @DontDivideUsNow]

Some welcome common sense. Individually, these partial or false accounts are tedious, but together they distort public understanding. https://t.co/cge9G6DFod

[Tom Slater @Tom_Slater_]

‘These reckless responses go beyond mourning a death; they are calls for the censorship of the press and the curbing of free speech & academic freedom’

I’m one of the signatories to this letter in The Times, organised by @ASCphiled and @toadmeister, opposing the Arday witch-hunt

[Ben Cobley @bencobley]

I'm one of the signatories to a letter in The Times today supporting public scrutiny of Professor Jason Arday's work and personal claims: "emotional vulnerability cannot be given priority over the need to hold the powerful and influential to account in the interest of truth."

[Joanna Williams @jowilliams293]

I am delighted to be a signatory on this letter in support of press and academic freedom, organised by @DontDivideUsNow. "We write to express our disagreement with those blaming Jason Arday’s death on the academics and journalists who subjected his academic work and/or his claimed life achievements to public scrutiny."
https://t.co/gv6bVFEaNm

[Committee for Academic Freedom @ComAcFreedom]

CAF director Dr Edward Skidelsky is one of the signatories to a letter in today’s Times on the public scrutiny of Dr Jason Arday’s academic work.

Dr Arday’s death was a tragedy, and the circumstances surrounding it demand sensitivity. But the scholarly community has traditionally governed its own standards, and its ability to continue doing so depends upon academics being free to subject one another’s work to legitimate scrutiny.

Where that freedom is curtailed by fear of professional or reputational detriment, scholarship cannot effectively correct itself or uphold academic standards.

[Don't Divide Us @DontDivideUsNow]

https://t.co/PTf1rzPwBv DDU Director will be speaking with interested professionals on why the Equality Act contributes to the rise of uncivil workplaces.

[Don't Divide Us @DontDivideUsNow]

DDU and many public figures support defending press and academic freedom against calls to curb both in response to Arday's sad death being blamed on racism of the press. Our letter is in The Times! (6th letter down): https://t.co/PJ8thm3H7r

[Don't Divide Us @DontDivideUsNow]

“We are deeply sorry for this part of our history. Acknowledging this legacy is important for our organisation, the descendants of those affected and those who still live with the consequences of this trafficking, and society as a whole.” Some questions for Loyds Register. Why is acknowledging this legacy important for your organisation? Who, in Britain, are the descendants of slavery? And what are the alleged consequences with which they live? Without some proper reasoning and robust empirical support, this is just a desperate move to garner some moral authority. PS is Lloyd's Register now going to pay reparations ?https://t.co/JX3PSZiDp1

[Max Klinger @MaxE2review]

How universities are indoctrinating the world, summed up in 2 minutes (by me) on GB News

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The Caribbean repatriation/reparations movement seems to have much in common with the remigration fans in Britain! https://t.co/qsdH7EYRPd

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DDU Director & Tom Slater disagree with Iman Aytoun and Wendy Sloane that the media is racist and needs regulating. As Tom Slater says, online bottom feeder comments don't represent the majority of British people. That the pro-censorship duo can't see this shows the elitist contempt at the heart of today's anti-racist critiques of capitalism: https://t.co/cc3OnVyjnD