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An anti-racism training program disseminating through nearly 100 UK universities claims that “cancel culture” has “benefits” to society.
The program, called Union Black, was devised by “anonymous contributors” at The Open University in 2021, touting courses about “systemic racism” and lessons asserting that “white people have a responsibility to solve the problem of racism.”
“In relation to racial/social justice, cancel culture has been shown to realize benefits,” says one module.
From The Telegraph’s article, “Cancel culture is beneficial ‘for social and racial justice“:
The Union Black course, launched in 2021, has been taken up by select academics and students in around 90 UK universities, including Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol, and Imperial College London.
Those taking the online course are offered insights on black history, race relations, unconscious bias, and “whiteness”.
Course material – drawn up by anonymous Open University contributors – states that “we still live in a racist society”, adding that “the black/white dynamic and structural racism” play a significant role in “all areas of modern life in western nations”.
It further claims that “white people have a responsibility to solve the problem of racism”, urging those taking the voluntary course to rate how active they are as “allies” in this struggle, with being “non-racist” deemed “not enough”.
The Union Black training program was criticized by the Free Speech Union as a threat to “academic freedom and freedom of speech.”
“I am disappointed, though sadly not surprised, to learn that UK academics are being trained in the virtues of cancel culture,” said the organization’s chief legal counsel Bryn Harris.
“It seems instead that these materials were agitprop training materials, and that this is another sad example of UK universities’ inability to be serious about academic freedom and freedom of speech.”
Meanwhile, the left has been keen on denying the very existence of cancel culture, calling it a “conspiracy theory” concocted by bitter right-wingers who’ve been censored on social media.
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