The Midwitch Cuckoos

ALL OVER THE United Kingdom students attending our finest universities are in thrall and captivated by the idea of censorship… the very negation of what a university education within a democracy is meant to promote. University is an intellectual institution that is supposed to comprise of a dialectic between opposing ideas going back to the ancient Greeks; where those that do not meet with the approval of the general consensus should be allowed to speak, and be challenged intellectually; through debate of the kind the University of Oxford and other such institutions have historically promoted.

            

            This is no longer the case. In today's Daily Telegraph, Tim Stanley reports of Ukip being stopped from debating at the University of East Anglia (UEA). While he was himself  invited to propose a motion at a University of Oxford debate, was refused due to a feminist student protest.

            

             The debate was on abortion and it was threatened by student protest if it went ahead. Oxford succumb. Brendan O'Neill was to have taken part in the debate with Timothy Stanley. Brendan was to put forward the pro-choice argument against Timothy Stanley who is pro-life. But both met with student opposition that lead to the debate being cancelled.

            

            But why? Both sides of the argument were represented. The trouble was that the debate was being orchestrated by men. Apparently, and according to those students opposing the debate, any male should have no contribution to make, either for or against abortion. Abortion is the monopoly of women, and no man should have, either way, any part to play in such a debate.

            

            On the issue of abortion it is reprehensible that the best of our country's young minds, who are in attendance at our premier university, can censor debate. It is a blasphemy that such ignorance can manifest itself without opposition from the university authorities…but it has happened.

IF THE SUBJECT of blocking an anti-abortion debate were the only liberal-Leftist intellectual sin it would be a one off. But it is not. The National Union of Students (NUS) have pressed their members into censoring other areas of university debate covering the censorship of Israeli academics on campus: or any criticism of gay marriage; as well as global warming: or for that matter any other anti-liberal so-called 'progressive' politically correct doctrine, which the students cannot face being challenged on.

            

             It is the NUS that has been given the power to restrict or even censor debate on university campuses. The university authorities seem to kow-tow to the NUS. No doubt, not because they fear their power (for they have none); but because they sympathise with their views.

            

             Our universities of whatever calibre, are being run by the descendents of the same liberal conquistadores who began their thrust into English culture in the early 1960s. Which is why they tolerate the infantilism of their students.

STUDENT NAIVETY is part and parcel of growing into maturity. But never has such gullibility been so seriously entertained by the academics who are meant to mould them. I can only conclude that liberal political correctness is being sourced by liberal university academics, who breed generation after generation of induced liberally minded students who arrive at university already prepared by their parents and teacher's own liberal influences, garnered during the 1960s and passed on to them by their parents and grandparents.

            

            These so-called student academics are going to (judging from the subjects from which they opine as students)  will find themselves teaching the next generation's children; either that or finding a bolt hole in some part or other of the public sector where they can still find a job for life. Those opposing a debate on abortion purely on grounds of gender; or on the issue of gay marriage, as well as even denying the mere presence of academics from Israel on campus; tells me that these students on the whole, are studying the barren wastelands of social science, or the humanities, from whose womb they will emerge to become, not only social scientists but social workers and civil servants…or if the chosen path is a humanities degree of some sort or other, they will probably find work at the BBC or within some other part of the Left-leaning media.

            

             Our universities seem to be manufacturing generation after generation of a liberal mentality to take their place among the liberal Borg-collective that now stifles liberty and, as  with communism constrains free speech. It is this future that such censorship will unleash on future generations. This liberal auto-da-fé were careers can be destroyed because of a politically incorrect comment on race, sexuality, or gender, by a public figure – or an arrest authored by the tenets of multiculturalism on individuals who are daily brought to book by the police for similar, 'hate crimes'.

 

THE MIDWITCH CUCKOOS have a liberal pallor to their faces. These students are intellectually anaemic. They cannot withstand any intellectual challenge to their pre-conceived  politically correct assumptions. They are weak of argument and will not tolerate a view that they believe undermines their own liberal certainties. Debate is off bounds; and what is even worse, their masters who oversee their education appear to be in coalition with them. Both Brendan O'Neill and Timothy Stanley are seen as beyond the pale of these student's rigid and foolish notions they regard as certainties, and therefore need not be given a voice on the campus.

           

             Here we see liberalism taken to such extremes that it becomes the negation of the tolerance that is supposed to be at the centre of the liberal cause. Such extreme liberalism evolves into totalitarianism…as it did in the past with its flirtations with  Marxism.

            

             To close down all opposing argument is not a liberal concept but a totalitarian one; and it seems that the Midwitch Cuckoos who trample upon the rights of those who oppose them in debate, should never have been at university in the first place - despite their grades.