Strewth it's Meghan again

Sitting here on a Sunday evening in front of the fire I happened to peruse an interesting piece by Doug Stokes on decolonizing the curriculum and what seems to be the unstoppable decline of the West through self-flagellating stupidity. Fair enough but blow me – the Duchess of Cliché manages another appearance. Oh well – it’s worth reading in spite of that  - 

The campaign by left-wing student protestors and some faculty to force Western universities to “decolonize the curriculum” has been surprisingly successful. A movement that started at the University of Cape Town in 2015, with the demand that the city’s university remove its statue of Cecil Rhodes—“Rhodes Must Fall”—quickly made its way to the U.K., with student activists calling for his statue at Oriel College, Oxford to be taken down. At its heart, the movement seeks to challenge what it characterizes as the dominance of the Western canon in the humanities and social sciences, as well as the under-representation of women and minorities in academia. It also, like many movements inspired by critical theory, maintains that a person’s beliefs and worldview are largely determined by their skin color, sexual orientation and gender.

Yes – “Oh my God” is exactly what she would say. Forget the quality, forget reality, just emote over the academic tractor stats. The trouble is, the emoting really is based on tractor stats as Mr Stokes demonstrates.