🧵DfE "Political Impartiality" guidence
There are already rules for Impartiality, also teaching standards, Nolan principles etc
The guidence is ploughing the same furrow we've seen occuring the in US, and its chilling
There are already rules for Impartiality, also teaching standards, Nolan principles etc
The guidence is ploughing the same furrow we've seen occuring the in US, and its chilling
2/
It's a dog whistle for RW "war on woke"
It's framing educators as the enemy
And the end result will be a narrowing of the ability for teachers to aid students in developing critical thinking
A good look at the guidence here
It's a dog whistle for RW "war on woke"
It's framing educators as the enemy
And the end result will be a narrowing of the ability for teachers to aid students in developing critical thinking
A good look at the guidence here
https://twitter.com/Penny_Ten/status/1494216421160759296?t=slShZSlyxQRmSRBM176G6g&s=19
3/ We already had this with the RSE guidence last year, its relying on dealing with the world through the distorted lense of RW rags not the reality of what's going on in classrooms in the real world
https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1310987924083798016?t=ugsPyDGm2LvMNqHyM-kccg&s=19
4/ With proper journalism in short supply, media are an integral part of culture wars
When @Strickomaster ends up on Mails "Woke lists" for dealing with a false widow infestation you know they were struggling to find real examples to prove their point
When @Strickomaster ends up on Mails "Woke lists" for dealing with a false widow infestation you know they were struggling to find real examples to prove their point
https://twitter.com/TabitaSurge/status/1495039063719653378?t=Cj47Gf5fTJefdCWoN4S72Q&s=19
5/ We also have the "ban on using mum and dad"
"Parent/Guardian" or "grown up" pretty standard practice for years, it's inclusive language as not all kids live with their parents
It's not a gender identify measures, but they'll pretend it is
"Parent/Guardian" or "grown up" pretty standard practice for years, it's inclusive language as not all kids live with their parents
It's not a gender identify measures, but they'll pretend it is
https://twitter.com/scottishscicomm/status/1494955060589121536?t=opLgVtQaOdlu-v18MPU9qA&s=19
6/ Gender Identity and Critical Race Theory are proving great subjects on which to bash educators.
Guidence risks becoming section 28 with a wider net, in fear of wrongful accusations educators can find themselves self censoring incase discussion is misrepresented as promiting
Guidence risks becoming section 28 with a wider net, in fear of wrongful accusations educators can find themselves self censoring incase discussion is misrepresented as promiting
7/ Implementation can end up looking like modern day Mccarthyism, in US states we can see the impact of similar Government initiatives
All it takes is for a parent to complain, or more likely for the media take a school policy out of context
All it takes is for a parent to complain, or more likely for the media take a school policy out of context
https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1493924916550373380?t=1Anp39yeF6rH6tWdfwQNog&s=19
8/ This isn't speculation, this is already happening in the States 
9/ In Texas they've decided to remove tenures from universities as punishment for content they don't agree with
https://twitter.com/meganmmenchaca/status/1494753620109180936?t=eUs1hB6NrWOi6vDfWe5lFw&s=19
10/ Of course the freespeech warriors are happy to cancel things in the name of fighting cancel culture
I don't see them complaining about the "antiwoke" University Thiel is setting up
I don't see them complaining about the "antiwoke" University Thiel is setting up
https://twitter.com/AmyRuckes/status/1467080368247476225?t=7Q1pM6KSdNRscdp6tY5Rdw&s=19
11/ Culture wars are about stifling debate, discrediting others, firing up the base while making those who don't follow an issue closely in the uncertain middle ground don't feel comfortable listening or supporting those the RW label enemy
Then allows them to push through policy
Then allows them to push through policy
12/ Same tactics utilised in climate change denial and now covid disinformation, the lobbyists have produced their own academic base who will create the stats to fit the narrative, look at Policy Exchange's cancel culture report "its rampant,we found 4 examples"
13/ Doesn't really matter what the numbers are, or how bad the method to produce them was, the quality of evidence is irrelevant when you have media and pundits you know will plug the headline and don't care about drilling into the facts
Talking points aid developing narratives
Talking points aid developing narratives
14/ Besides outrage it's also about provoking.
Same libertarian forces behind the culture wars in the US are at work in the UK and other countries
Example of this is Thiels network in UK universities
Toby Young and Co involved, full story⬇️
Same libertarian forces behind the culture wars in the US are at work in the UK and other countries
Example of this is Thiels network in UK universities
Toby Young and Co involved, full story⬇️
https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1489337468377829376?t=3zwUNh-jvMn491BNEuXU8w&s=19
15/ What's alarming is that these culture war networks and think tanks are influencing government policy, just as in the US there are lots of close links to government
These networks are always on the look to recruit new contrarians
These networks are always on the look to recruit new contrarians
https://twitter.com/archiebland/status/1347803580271632385?t=tp1rb8a9hdaEjtQebmWC3A&s=19
16/ Whistle blowers on the culture war network in Cambridge Uni said that promises are made to prospective professional contrarians that they will always be financially looked after, organisations and jobs can be created, writing gigs can be secured etc its a career option
17/ Its important to recognise the rules of political engagement have been scrapped, the libertarians aren't traditional Conservatives, it's about radical change and there's a distinctively ruthless ends justify the means attitude
https://twitter.com/NarcAware/status/1494279599995473921?t=mATKxKKui-CAWmvy-VJdFA&s=19
18/ The issue is that huge resources and access is made available to professional contrarians, where belligerence is valued above intelligence, they want ppl who speak with utter conviction without any concern for the truth
19/ "We're being silenced"
"Debate is being stifled"
Are constant and ridiculous statements by those who have a disproportionate amount of media access.
For instance the new poster girl for the freedom fighting antiwoke brigade seems to have a well funded campaign
"Debate is being stifled"
Are constant and ridiculous statements by those who have a disproportionate amount of media access.
For instance the new poster girl for the freedom fighting antiwoke brigade seems to have a well funded campaign
20/ Sos silenced they are the only candidate in a student union election to get one sided national press coverage
Has a uni SU candidate ever recieved such a high level of press coverage?
Has a uni SU candidate ever recieved such a high level of press coverage?
https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1495391700700774400?t=6czynEgIc-_qghYfaYrbmw&s=19
21/ Such a defender of free speech their main campaign focus appears to be about what they want to stop being covered
What about the other candidates? Aren't they being canceled because they aren't offered the same platform?
What about the other candidates? Aren't they being canceled because they aren't offered the same platform?
22/ First encountered Corcoran bring promoted by UsForThem and GBnews about the distress of wearing masks in class
"Authoritarian bullying"
Yet at the end she said "so stupid most the time we'd just take our masks off"
So the mandate wasn't oppresively enforced then?
"Authoritarian bullying"
Yet at the end she said "so stupid most the time we'd just take our masks off"
So the mandate wasn't oppresively enforced then?
24/ Already been a guest speaker for Claire Fox's Battle of ideas, lets be honest she's not exactly created any unique talking points.
So stifled compared to her peers
So stifled compared to her peers
25/ I know not everyone who speaks at battle of ideas is a culture warrior, but jts heavily stacked with them
Academy of ideas and Spiked crowd are good example of well established professional contrarians
Platforming antivax and Cambridge Analytica⬇️
Academy of ideas and Spiked crowd are good example of well established professional contrarians
Platforming antivax and Cambridge Analytica⬇️
https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1438497613636980736?t=9oKRstM6KInd3gJvrB00yA&s=19
26/ Brexit Party, Spiked/Living Marxism, CRG, its all interlinked, and they are happy to use the language they know will encourage the far right, and looks like they are also willing to promote and support
So silenced
So silenced
https://twitter.com/Aw_what/status/1487091365263646733?t=3HPJe7wz07svp5tr5hL6Zw&s=19
27/ So while rubbing shoulders with the far right "it's the left who are the real fascists"
In fact Trudeau is a genuine fascist
In fact Trudeau is a genuine fascist
28/ The Truckers have Proud Boys, antivaxxers, KKK linked groups, Neo Nazis with swastika flags and Qanon on their side
Same forces behind the culture wars, its a ramping up like Capitol Hill where culture wars can become political violence
Same forces behind the culture wars, its a ramping up like Capitol Hill where culture wars can become political violence
https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1490433517334970371?t=ro2vQj9iUUsFT9afMQUJUw&s=19
29/ In the US big money is being put into taking control of school boards
War on Woke is about suppressing free speech not defending it, and its not an organic campaign
War on Woke is about suppressing free speech not defending it, and its not an organic campaign
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1448637666904395777?t=avt7cre16_rwLCR9b8Nv3w&s=19
30/ Bit different in the UK where Academisation put hedge fundge managers, venture capitalists, Tory Peers and Donors in charge of chains of schools with little transparency
https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1276454783818387458?t=avt7cre16_rwLCR9b8Nv3w&s=19
31/ Those who opposed this were "militant lefties" "the Blob" "enemies of progress"
And now as they head for consolidating academisation forcing schools to join chains...
"War on woke"
And now as they head for consolidating academisation forcing schools to join chains...
"War on woke"
32/ Media want you to focus on wokeness, not the herd immunity experiment going on in our schools, the lack of funding, the vested interests now running out schools, the narrowing of curriculum, profiteering etc
Ignore all that, attack underpaid and overworked educators
Ignore all that, attack underpaid and overworked educators
33/ Its a wider libertarian strategy, complain about indoctrination while setting up RW recruitment networks searching for the next generation of bullshit contrarians
https://twitter.com/NarcAware/status/1394454799748198400?t=U71s39FkIkSZccj7pMu4xg&s=19
34/ Just look at where Republican states are heading, Florida with its new Section 28, Texas with its attack on abortion
It's about taking away the progress made by equal and civil rights movements, its about control and shutting down opposition
It's about taking away the progress made by equal and civil rights movements, its about control and shutting down opposition
https://twitter.com/KevinCate/status/1493252588317429763?t=dYAkNZNw6fXH_urB5u0EGQ&s=19
35/ Because what we're really dealing with is a Libertarian movement whose leaders see democracy as an inconvenience that gets in the way of progress, who don't believe all lives should be valued equally
https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1462187180382724100?t=5140fppt6skmizelToBIsg&s=19
36/Its about destroying science and expertise, creating a climate where whoever funds the most voices should decides what the facts are
Theres not an endpoint, just a trajectory where they will constantly have to become more extreme
Theres not an endpoint, just a trajectory where they will constantly have to become more extreme
37/ This is how we end up with "I'm not antivax, just anti this vax" turning into "time to tell the 'truth' about child vax" in an 11 episode series by Candice Owens, one of the US's manufactured contrarians from Turning Point etc
https://twitter.com/rubin_allergy/status/1495199776345927680?t=dFxpJC9Y_5e1hl7XKRirDg&s=19
38/ Manufactured⬇️
https://twitter.com/nicole_chenelle/status/1422449854224031745?t=4KZXMKSoHn91VjJkOvHqIA&s=19
39/ Professional Contrarian pays well, this thread on Bannon has lots of links to American Youth Foundation.
https://twitter.com/Tentoads4truth/status/1133509852335136768?t=4KZXMKSoHn91VjJkOvHqIA&s=19
40/ None of this should be news to anyone, this isn't new information, media are too busy platforming these ppl to bother exposing their links
2017 thread on the UKs AYF, set up by the same people with the same Bannon links
Culture wars is big money
2017 thread on the UKs AYF, set up by the same people with the same Bannon links
Culture wars is big money
https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/938207178451714051?t=4KZXMKSoHn91VjJkOvHqIA&s=19
41/ To finish, the war on woke culture wars is the product of foreign influence on UK politics
Pull on any thread and it always leads back to the same network of organisations and big funders
Pull on any thread and it always leads back to the same network of organisations and big funders
https://twitter.com/Tentoads4truth/status/1106392331542888448?t=vX-VVklI2yJU-6GfD6-Hug&s=19
42/ One final addition, few more examples of book banning in the US
https://twitter.com/Gledster/status/1483184080279719939?t=xkwXSc8EHLeXpbUxek3xmQ&s=19
44/ Toby Youngs Free Speech Union has been telling universities how to operate, relies on misrepresentation and then leveling legal threats, the threats are unlikely to succeed but the costs of defending against them is a real struggle for universities.
45/ The Free Speech Union has so much financial backing it can afford to fire off an endless number of legal challenges that it knows it wouldn't win
Literally forcing policy changes because they have a big enough wallet
Literally forcing policy changes because they have a big enough wallet
https://twitter.com/Mr_JDTraynor/status/1495482523060948992?t=QfQtEy9DKNFSi-1FvwwKHw&s=19
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