Or there’s the other one the FSU told me about. A 14-year-old boy was identified as being a threat because of a painting he did in his art lesson. It was a portrait of Nigel Farage. Later he asked a teacher if she liked his work and what she thought of illegal asylum seekers pouring… Read More »So, we do have censorship then The post So, we do have censorship then first appeared on Tim Worstall.
Or there’s the other one the FSU told me about. A 14-year-old boy was identified as being a threat because of a painting he did in his art lesson. It was a portrait of Nigel Farage. Later he asked a teacher if she liked his work and what she thought of illegal asylum seekers pouring into the country. He became, immediately, a “safeguarding concern”, and when his dad complained to the school he was told — in a lengthy essay, which I have seen — to basically sling his hook. The essay cited the Equality Act 2010 to suggest that the boy’s apparent liking for Nigel Farage and disaffection with the level of immigration “could potentially highlight discrimination against personal attributes that are legally protected”. In other words, in this case, as in the two above, individuals were persecuted and identified as safeguarding concerns because they shared the views of the majority of the population.
It’s just not called censorship. Yet you end up on a register anyway, barred from many a job.
I suppose it’s all about who sits on these boards. What kind of person thinks to themselves one evening: hell, I’ve got time to spare. Do you know what I’d really like to do? Sit on a safeguarding board and stop people getting jobs if they don’t agree with my political views.
Call me a cryptofascist but I think just one kind of person makes that kind of decision, and they are probably not the easy-going, amiable, centrist coves you might wish were entrusted with such responsibilities. They are people who are motivated by the single idea that their views are right and inviolable and anyone who transgresses them deserves all they get
One of those things I keep saying. As soon as there is such a cefntre of power in a society then those who desire power over others will vie to conquer that centre. So whatever the initial aims, however pure the set up, it will always be colonised by the same vile little shits.
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