Southampton union president threatens to paint over war memorial (warning Daily Fail/SJW thread)

CREATIVE!11 · 2 Nov 2018 at 12:45

What a pathetic tragic little attention seeker.....

aardvark · 2 Nov 2018 at 12:50

almoststew1990 said:
I'm local so I've seen this story crop up in our local echo and was wondering when it would find its way here (it's been at least a week sort it out guys). I see as a win for sensibleness as no one has sided with her at all, even a local MP waded in and condemned it. She is on leave but there is a petition to get her removed from her post as well which is the last article has about 20,000 signatures.

this really, its ending the way it should do, so well done common sense!

mmj_uk · 2 Nov 2018 at 12:54

In about 10-20 years she'll probably be a politician or senior official at the BBC.

Somewhat related but listen to the South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner and then realise why real crime is spiralling:

A lot on the far left need sectioning, it's like they're programmed robots with not a single ounce of common sense but they all seem to end up in important jobs.

ttaskmaster · 2 Nov 2018 at 14:40

gettothechopper · 2 Nov 2018 at 15:57

I don't see what all the fuss is about
Someone ignorant said something stupid and got put straight

Not particularly much to get excited about

Dis86 · 2 Nov 2018 at 16:02

gettothechopper said:
I don't see what all the fuss is about
Someone ignorant said something stupid and got put straight

Not particularly much to get excited about

The fuss is the position held by said ignorant person.

dowie · 2 Nov 2018 at 16:17

ttaskmaster said:
I never went to uni, so please enlighten me.... How the **** can you be earning £20k just for being a student??!!

it is a salaried sabbatical position - they hold the position full time while taking a year off from their studies or they do it for a year immediately after graduating

Mason- said:
I think the way it'll be spun is that ok, she was ousted. But how did she get into that position in the first place? Why did she think that was ok? And how many SUs are run by people like her who have a bit more tact?

plenty of Suspense are dominated by people like her mostly because the majority of students don't care at all about student politics - so long as the SU spends plenty of money on the sports teams and has bars/night clubs putting on events then no one cares.

it used to be the case that the union president might be say some popular member of the rugby/football team, possibly former president of his/her halls of residence etc.. so well know by a big chunk of students across two years... these days you're just as likely to find it is the guy the Islamic society all decided to get behind etc..

Ironically plenty of SUs will still have a women's officer despite women outnumbering men at uni these days, they'll also tend to have a black/minority ethnic officer when in plenty of cases all the sabbatical positions are filled by non-white people anyway

Angilion · 2 Nov 2018 at 16:42

Irish_Tom said:
As ridiculous as her behaviour has been (there’s absolutely no defending it) surely this story is a win for all of those decrying SJWs?

Southampton Uni staff and students alike were steadfast in condemning her, and flatly refused to entertain her stupid idea.

If this had been an American university, the story may have turned out differently, but I think this example goes to show that the ‘take over’ by feminists and SJWs isn’t as pervasive as many on these forums would like us to believe.

That depends on whether this is a permanent block or a temporary obstacle to authoritarian identity politicians. If it's a permanent block, a line drawn to say "no further" and held, then you'll be right. If it's a temporary obstacle, then you'll be wrong. Part of the way politically savvy extremist ideologies often work is by acclimatisation through slow change (as well as function creep, lying and various other forms of deception). Part of that is sometimes pushing for something past what's currently acceptable in that time and place. The general idea is that if you keep pushing in the same direction and succeed, over time "too far!" becomes "too far" then "a bit too far" then "extreme but maybe necessary" then "brave trailblazing activism" then "acceptable" then "normal". And it often works.

Irish_Tom · 2 Nov 2018 at 17:28

Angilion said:
That depends on whether this is a permanent block or a temporary obstacle to authoritarian identity politicians. If it's a permanent block, a line drawn to say "no further" and held, then you'll be right. If it's a temporary obstacle, then you'll be wrong. Part of the way politically savvy extremist ideologies often work is by acclimatisation through slow change (as well as function creep, lying and various other forms of deception). Part of that is sometimes pushing for something past what's currently acceptable in that time and place. The general idea is that if you keep pushing in the same direction and succeed, over time "too far!" becomes "too far" then "a bit too far" then "extreme but maybe necessary" then "brave trailblazing activism" then "acceptable" then "normal". And it often works.

Very true, I guess time will tell.

Personally, I'm optimistic that common sense will prevail.

neckbeardthethird · 2 Nov 2018 at 18:07

mmj_uk said:
In about 10-20 years she'll probably be a politician or senior official at the BBC.

Somewhat related but listen to the South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner and then realise why real crime is spiralling:

A lot on the far left need sectioning, it's like they're programmed robots with not a single ounce of common sense but they all seem to end up in important jobs.

lol the irony of you posting this, the ultimate token easily grifted alt righter.

doodah · 20 Nov 2018 at 15:15

Good news, she resigned

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Omega_ · 20 Nov 2018 at 15:24

doodah said:
Good news, she resigned .

Finally

Droolinggimp · 20 Nov 2018 at 20:12

I read the OP and the Dm link. Silly person. Moreover, I was really interested in the article about Milly Bobby brown on that page. Jesus, the comments section on her.. wow.

dowie · 20 Nov 2018 at 20:21

Droolinggimp said:
I read the OP and the Dm link. Silly person. Moreover, I was really interested in the article about Milly Bobby brown on that page. Jesus, the comments section on her.. wow.

Why did you do that if you otherwise don't like the daily mail or indeed stories like this, did you ignore the thread title?

This thread only exists as a little joke in reply to a comment made by @Diddums in another thread.

Droolinggimp · 21 Nov 2018 at 13:01

dowie said:
Why did you do that if you otherwise don't like the daily mail or indeed stories like this, did you ignore the thread title?

This thread only exists as a little joke in reply to a comment made by @Diddums in another thread.

Yes I did read the title. I don't think I gave an impression I didn't like the DM or stories like that. Like most people on here I read the article and came to the conclusion that she is a silly person. However I like millie Bobby brown and wanted to see what her article was about. So I read that too. The comments section on her was eye opening. Hence the "wow" unless there's something about her I don't know?

dowie · 21 Nov 2018 at 13:23

Droolinggimp said:
Yes I did read the title. I don't think I gave an impression I didn't like the DM or stories like that. Like most people on here I read the article and came to the conclusion that she is a silly person. However I like millie Bobby brown and wanted to see what her article was about. So I read that too. The comments section on her was eye opening. Hence the "wow" unless there's something about her I don't know?

Ah fair enough... just had a search for that article... hmm sure enough the DM comments section doesn't disappoint! :eek: