Women and people of colour are speaking out but Sydney Uni students aren’t listening
The latest PC rubbish from NSW’s sandstone university makes you weep for the next generation...
University of Sydney student Nina Dillon Britton speaks to The Australian, yesterday:
I’m a female debater and it (affirmative action policies) created a culture where women were able to put themselves forward.
US foreign policy’s leading voice, Nikki Haley didn’t need affirmative action and she debates powerful men every day. The US ambassador to the UN in New York, January 18:
Don’t think that you can sit there and say hateful things about us and … (we will) write you a cheque. It’s wrong in every turn … We’re not going to reward bad behaviour.
Theresa May didn’t need it to tackle Vladimir Putin. The British Prime Minister addresses the House of Commons on the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy, March 13:
It was an indiscriminate and reckless act against the United Kingdom, putting the lives of innocent civilians at risk. And we will not tolerate such a brazen attempt to murder innocent civilians on our soil.
But we must tackle gender and racial inequality in Sydney University debating teams. Britton, continued:
We have to recognise subconscious bias and stereotypes, which mean women and people of colour are disadvantaged when they speak.
We must be at a huge disadvantage on the world stage then. Australia’s diplomatic voice, Julie Bishop, speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, March 8:
As Australia’s first female foreign minister I have placed gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls at the heart of Australia’s foreign policy.
And as a military power? The voice of Australia’s defence forces, Marise Payne, in Canberra, September 22, 2015:
If, as Australia’s first female defence minister, I can encourage … one extra young woman in this nation to consider a career in Defence, to consider a career in politics, or encourage one woman currently serving in the ADF or part of the Defence public service in what they are doing, then I think that is an absolutely fabulous thing.
As for people of colour, who’s Labor’s most senior senator again? Penny Wong in The Weekend Australian Magazine, May 23, 2009:
If people ask me, ‘Why do you think you are in politics, what is it that drives you?’, I think at a personal level it was the experience of coming to Australia in 1977 …
People of colour are being silenced? Britton hasn’t caught the latest Apple advert, huh? Boxer Muhammad Ali in the “selfie” ad, January 21:
I am the greatest! I’m going to become champion of the universe! Me with my beautiful, colourful personality. I’m good looking, clean living, cultured, and I am modest. I am so modest, I can admit my own fault. My only fault is … I don’t realise how great I really am! Because I am great, I am the greatest!
We’re not sure Britton will notice between her debating prep and virtue signalling. The Sydney University student, continued:
We shouldn’t be happy with only allowing privileged people (in university debating teams) ...
These students need to get out more. Conservative commentator Gray Connolly on Twitter, yesterday:
We can all laugh but the realities of life will be brutal for these mollycoddled people & universities tolerating this idiocy are doing them no favours.
