Racism, I Don't Think So, Perhaps It's Your Attitude Madam?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5860265/Cambridge-don-sparks-racism-row-refusing-supervise-Kings-College-students.html

[youngmafbog]

There's always one.

[sp1814]

There are some people who spend a lot of their time trying to convince others that racism is just being made up by black people and Asians.

Subtext.

[naomi24]

//There are some people who spend a lot of their time trying to convince others that racism is just being made up by black people and Asians.//

And very often they're right. Don't mention the train. ;o)

[Theland]

She must be right because we white heterosexual males are all subconsciously racist and sexist and homophobic and the world would be a better place without us and I am very sorry for offending just about everybody that walks. Oops, there I go offending the amputees.

[sp1814]

You know nothing naomi24.

[sp1814]

I’ve just rethought that - you don’t know ‘nothing’.

[-Talbot-]

Zacs-Master
An over inflated ego if ever I saw one. She is a prolific user of Twitter, having posted more than 17,000 tweets in the past seven years.


Having just looked at her Twitter-feed I think you are wrong, Zacs.


She has tweeted 17,000 times in 7 hours.

[sp1814]

-Talbot-

You’re joking, right?

[-Talbot-]

Never explain a joke.

[Togo]

//Dr Gopal,(or the little madam. Togo edit) a vehement supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, is an expert in colonial and postcolonial literature who become well known for her outspoken views//sic

Says it all really.

[douglas9401]

I hope she doesn't turn out to be a hater as well as a poor driver.

[naomi24]

sp, //You know nothing naomi24.//

I know you cried racism where it didn't exist. People who do that exacerbate racism so stop complaining. You're the boy who cried 'Wolf'.

[jim360]

Who among us can really know whether she's telling the truth or not? Perhaps she caught the porters on a bad day, perhaps it's a chip on her shoulder, or perhaps the King's porters are closet racists. From what she's saying, I think it's the second one (along with, perhaps, bad experiences in the past that naturally influenced her judgement).

The Porters at King's, though, are... well, people I knew and got along with very well when I was there. By definition, I could never be the target of any racism on their part, but... no, I don't believe it.

[Peter Pedant]

oh if they have been kicking her out as she isnt a kingsman
I think she is entitled to say
fine I wont come into college .... as in
fine I wont TRY to get into college....

there is no rule that supervisions have to be done inside a college

( hour a week of specialised small group teaching in a subject - very very useful)

[Peter Pedant]

when I stayed for a week
a porter said - the graduate bar is open until midnight sir, staircase W.

but I think I'm a dweeb - or dinky or some damn thing so didnt really count