“Our colleges have become seminaries of politically correct nonsense – Left-wing madrassas whose purpose is not to disseminate knowledge and promote understanding but to suppress politically incorrect facts and stifle debate” --Toby Young

According to Toby Young “It's no wonder degrees are going out of fashion when universities have become the Madrassas of the Left” www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-6075017/TOBY-YOUNG-no-wonder-degrees-going-fashion.html

“A couple of weeks later, The Spectator ran another piece by (Toby) Young, headlined ‘The Neo-Marxist takeover of our universities’, illustrated by a sketch of a student wearing a tee-shirt emblazoned with ‘This is what feminism looks like’ while pointing aggressively at the reader. In this piece, Young argued that the balance of power was shifting away from universities and moving in students’ favour because students were now able to shame their institutions through ‘outrage mobs’ on social media. This inverted the more familiar trope of learners being victims of the sector’s poor teaching or executive greed, but it served the same purpose—to drive a rhetorical wedge between the two groups. Such wedges are vital, as I argued in Chapter 2, for the market to take hold. After all, a cosy, mutually respectful relationship between vendor and consumer is not compatible with the kind of cut-throat competition for which reformers yearn. The problem is that students know the power attributed to them is illusory and disingenuously projected, relating only to manufactured culture war issues. Young suggested that students’ primary agenda is to make gains on trigger warnings, safe spaces and bias hotlines. But evidence suggests that students are far more concerned with real issues like indebtedness, joblessness and mental health.”

Quoted from Universities Under Fire 🔥 Hostile Discourses and Integrity Deficits in Higher Education by Steven Jones dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96107-7

Toby Young (born 1963), is a British social commentator and life peer. He is the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, an associate editor of The Spectator, creator of The Daily Sceptic blog and a former associate editor at Quillette.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Young

Portrait of Toby Young by Raj Curry via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/EwS3

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Taken on: October 25, 2011

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