Thread by @CLARESAMBROOK

When Eton College gave Farage a platform, what did they think was going to happen?

Boys directed racist & misogynistic abuse at state school students invited to join them for a speech by Nigel Farage

🧵#Eton #privilege #racism #cheating #cocaine 1/

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

#Eton boys ‘sanctioned’ by a school that saw fit to offer hospitality and a platform to Farage and thereby, predictably, exposed state school children (Eton’s guests) to racist and misogynistic abuse

Eton,where Boris Johnson was educated/radicalised
gal-dem.com/comprehensive-…

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The unsurprising #Eton #Farage scandal speaks volumes about UK establishment and the school that's groomed so many narcissistic sociopath politicians & journos

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https://twitter.com/SunApology/status/872008264883593216

Without their privilege, wealth, contacts, & the #Eton Oxbridge fast-track, scrutiny-free adult wrongdoing & law-breaking, how many of our leading politicians & journos might instead be living harder lives?
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https://twitter.com/CLARESAMBROOK/status/1137397256620060674

#Eton boys got more Oxbridge offers than students on free school meals across the whole country according to @DavidLammy 's foi research in 2017
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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btw, personal note: I was a free school meals kid who won a national essay prize, Vellacott History, & got into Cambridge Uni.

Four mind-blowing years that really opened my eyes to how privilege works.

Anyway, back to the #Eton #privilege #racism #cheating #cocaine 🧵

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Privilege can be a mind-cramping 'lived experience'. #Eton , for 1,300 boys, has 3 doctors, 5 fully qualified nurses, gazillions of teachers, assistants, & support staff. And space. So much space. Remember when Johnson Dec2020 said 'schools are safe'?
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So much unearned advantage. Remember 2017, when 2 teacher/examiners got suspended from #Eton & Winchester?
These are just the ones who got caught..
And what of the teachers who acted on leaked information?
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theguardian.com/education/2017…

UK needs scrutiny & dismantling of multiple layers of unearned advantage thru which people of modest talents & bad character rise, displacing others.

The lexicon of ‘diversity’ & ‘widening participation’ lacks ‘opportunity theft’ ‘unearned advantage’ ‘cheating’
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#Eton teachers set 7 public exams taken by their own pupils, headteacher revealed at inquiry into exam integrity Nov 2017. How many private school teachers set exams? What impact on the education, results & life chances of state school students? 10/ theguardian.com/education/2017…