Thread by @UWankings

We thought we'd do a thread on reasons to dislike Toby Daniel Moorsom Young. All of these are variations on the same theme: that Toby Young is foetid bellend.

https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1279542883700428806

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He spends much of his time throwing shitbombs at any moves towards equality and inclusion because it highlights and undermines his enormous white, male, middle class privilege.

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He can't imagine why a lot of people in higher education are left leaning, even though much of their lives are spent developing a criticality which is then personally or professionally used to think about the unfair world we live in.

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*He thinks that the closure of up to half of universities *is a good thing. The deleterious economic and social effects this would have on countless students, staff, and towns seems to be lost on him.

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This mass closure of universities would, it seems, save the world from the spread of wokeness - which, of course, would preserve his advantage while continuing to marginalise PoC, those with disabilities, women, working class (etc) groups.

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If a lot of universities closed, no doubt his alma mater, Oxford (which he only got into because his dad pulled some strings btw) would survive. Research aside, Oxford's position, selectivity and culture are a suppurating boil on British society.

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He assumes - in spite of the absence of evidence - that universities are against free speech; he'd rather preserve a situation where you can insult, denigrate, and traumatise entire groups of people without sanction.

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He asserts that private and public education has been fully converted into a space where the history of Britain is taught as entirely negative. He hasn't looked at the National Curriculum or Fundamental British Values, then.

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He claims that the leftwards shift in education/society is creating space for populism as only the middle classes attain wokeness and this divides society. Seems he's never met a working class socialist or #BLM advocate.

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He's a self-nominated leader of 'the resistance', resisting a world where more and more people look at him and his ilk and see that they're sociopaths protecting their own advantage and/or have no idea of the lived experience of marginalisation.

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