The universities where all students are given extra time in exams - "At Sheffield Hallam University, the explosion of the number of students declaring a mental health issue or other disability and asking for special treatment in exams has led to an unusual solution. Instead of continuing their efforts to individually allocate extra time to each of those who appear to require it, the university has declared – in the name of inclusion – that everyone should qualify for it... Around one in five UK undergraduates now declare some form of disability but at some institutions the figure is nearer to 40 per cent. The impact of this on UK campuses is massive and growing. University spending on mental health has risen by more than 70 per cent on average in the past five years, data suggests. Cash-strapped institutions are funding ever-expanding wellbeing, mental health and disability teams, while also insisting academics are trained to spot struggling students. Some institutions, such as Newcastle, have set up “neurodevelopmental assessment services” to provide free ADHD and autism assessments by trainee psychologists... As well as more time in exams, students are demanding essay extensions, their own rooms in which to sit exams, the provision of slides and course content before lectures, different standards of marking for conditions such as dyslexia (not deducting marks for incorrect spelling), and an exemption from oral exams and presentations. For some students, “reasonable adjustments” that are outlined in “individual/personal learning plans”, include an exemption from being asked questions in seminars, often because of their anxiety or conditions such as autism. “You’re meant to memorise who these students are,” says one academic. “In one of my modules, which has around 85 students, 20 of them have a learning plan. Occasionally I’ll ask a student a question by mistake. I’ve had an instance where one came up to me afterwards and said ‘my learning plan says you shouldn’t have done that’. I don’t know how much of it is real and how much of it is overdone or students gaming the system.” By the same logic that is prompting universities to give extra time in exams to all, many now giving essay extensions automatically. Cardiff Metropolitan University has just introduced a “more supportive and flexible approach” allowing students to submit work late, within five working days, up to four times per academic year with no penalty. No evidence is required, candidates simply complete a short self-declaration form. Even after these four extensions, undergraduates can still submit work late but it will be capped at a pass mark of 40 per cent... “We are increasingly being asked to treat students like children but at the same time, we are constantly being told to prepare them for the workplace. You can’t do both.”... a growing obsession with wellbeing, mental health and trauma is making young people think they are ill or at least that they face bigger challenges than their peers... Professor Joanna Moncrieff, an academic at University College London and a practising NHS psychiatrist, is concerned that labelling young people with particular conditions can limit them. “People think they’ve found an explanation, but they haven’t; they have just acquired a label and labels can be really pernicious because they limit you,” she says. “You think ‘I have this thing, therefore I can’t possibly do this and I can’t possibly do that’. It is really worrying.” Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent, has a similar view, that what used to be called “problems of life or problems of human existence”, are now framed in the language of psychology and medicalised. “So, we no longer have shy people; we have people with social phobia. We no longer have kids who are just very energetic; we have ADHD. We are inciting young people to feel unwell. To me, the mental health industry is actually complicit in creating a mental health problem,” he says. Whatever the cause, academics fear that in a bid to try and meet students’ ever-expanding needs, scholarship has drifted down the agenda. “I think it chips away at academic standards and I think it is very bad for the self-respect of these students,” says one lecturer. “They are effectively holding themselves to a lower standard. “And even if they do not have entrenched mental health problems at the start of this, they come to think of themselves as people who are anxious or autistic and they grow into the role over time, and I think that could be very destructive.” Another fear is that in the rush to label everyone, those students that need the help most are being lost in the masses, particularly when students are allowed to self-declare. “I think if you go to a position of saying anyone can have anything that they ask for, you water down what it means to be disabled,” says the disability lead at a Russell Group institution. “And I don’t think that helps disabled students at all.” Professor Alan Smithers, director of the centre for education and employment research at Buckingham University, has similar concerns: “The height of absurdity is reached when everyone is allowed extra time, which both makes the exams easier and takes away the consideration that should be given to the very few who have genuine disabilities.”"
Clearly, this is all due to better Awareness, and over-diagnosis is never a thing
The dark comedy of the Islamo-left alliance - "The phenomenon of Islamo-leftism did not come from nowhere. From the 1960s onwards, a combination of disillusionment with Soviet Communism and a growing estrangement from the working class prompted a then emergent New Left to look elsewhere for a challenge to capitalism and increasingly the West itself. And so they looked to anti-colonial movements in the so-called Third World. Islamism, a thoroughly anti-Western form of religionised politics, born in colonial Egypt and India in the early 20th century and resurgent in the 1970s, soon began to make inroads in the West – and not just among the Muslim population. Think of the admiring glances some Western leftists cast on the Ayatollah Khomeini on the eve of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Or more recently, think of the coalitions and alliances left-wing groups sought to form with assorted militant Muslim groups during the 1990s, and again in opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during the 2000s. Indeed, the very term ‘Islamo-left’ emerged to refer to the left’s bridge-building efforts of this period. Over the past two-and-a-bit years, the Islamo-leftist alliance has flourished. The bourgeois left’s increasingly reactionary hatred for Western modernity has pulled them closer to militant Islamists than ever before. Thirty or 40 years ago, leftists might have seen Islamist groups as flawed but useful, as channeling a ‘feeling of revolt [that] could be tapped for progressive purposes’, to quote a well-known 1994 tract by a Socialist Workers Party activist. Today, the roles seem to have reversed. It’s as if the left itself – wearing keffiyehs, chanting Islamist slogans and waving flags in support of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran – is being ‘tapped’ for Islamist purposes. Yet towards the end of 2025, in Britain at least, we have also seen signs that this political coupling might just be starting to come apart... The first signs of strain between Muslim sectarians and the woke left became apparent during Mothin Ali’s campaign to become a Green Party deputy leader. On 7 October, the day of Hamas’s massacre, he said Palestinians had the right to ‘fight back’. In 2024, he celebrated his election to Leeds City Council with shouts of ‘Allahu Akbar!’, declaring it ‘a win for the people of Gaza’. Ali is certainly keen on the Greens’ anti-Israel zealotry and general anti-Western misanthropy. Yet, as a committed Muslim, he is rather less keen on the Greens’ Pride-filled, trans-rights activism. And so during his deputy-leadership campaign back in August, he refused to sign ‘pledges’ on behalf of the Greens’ various LGBTQIA+ groups – much to those activists’ apparent shock and dismay. But the tensions in the Green Party were nothing compared with those that have humiliated Your Party in recent weeks and months. Semi-launched last July, amid bickering and squabbling over precisely who Your Party belonged to, this Corbyn 2.0 vehicle was clearly designed to exploit the surge in Islamo-leftist sentiment. Fronted by Jeremy Corbyn himself, sometime ‘friend’ of Hamas and Hezbollah, and onetime Labour MP and permanent sixth-former Zarah Sultana, it also featured four independent, ‘pro-Gaza’ Muslim MPs: Shockat Adam, Adnan Hussain, Ayoub Khan and Iqbal Mohamed. The ‘pro-Gaza’ Muslim men were certainly on board with Your Party’s anti-Israel zealotry. But it seems they were less keen on Your Party’s support for every hue of gender-identity politics. And so, following criticism from Your Party’s leftist fanboys, fangirls and fantheys, Hussain flounced off in mid-November, citing ‘veiled prejudice’ and ‘generalised accusations and offensive slurs’ towards Muslim men. He was quickly followed by Mohamed, who also complained about ‘false allegations and smears made against me’. The cultural chasm between let-it-all-hang-out ‘progressivism’ and illiberal Islam was fully exposed at Your Party’s calamitous conference in late November. In between denunciations of Israel, a series of pasty-looking social inadequates stumbled up to the lectern to shout their pronouns and denounce the ‘transphobia’ of their ‘socially conservative’ (ie, Muslim) comrades. The absurdity of the Islamo-woke coupling has been laid bare. Activists who think bearded men can be women marching alongside bearded men who don’t want women to be seen in public. How was this ever going to last? Another event in Tower Hamlets in late October captured the emerging conflict in starker terms still. The setting was, absurdly enough, a counter-protest against a UKIP march that had already been cancelled and moved elsewhere. It was here that leftist activists, marching under the banner of Stand Up to Racism, coalesced with hundreds of masked Muslim men chanting ‘Zionist scum, off our streets’. Phone footage captured a momentary exchange between one of the left-wing marchers and one of their supposed allies. ‘There’s no need for that’, the leftist activist says in relation to something or other, ‘We’re on the same side, bruv’. The masked Muslim man’s response is sharp: ‘No, we’re not.’ These are portentous words. Leftists might not realise it yet, but as that masked man said, they are really not on the same side as Islamists and Islamic activists on the vast majority of political issues. They have allowed their shared loathing of Israel, animus towards the West and turn against modernity to blind them to this most blatantly obvious of truths. The crumbling of this silly and sinister alliance cannot come soon enough."
A common enemy is not enough to paper over the paradoxes and contradictions in the Islamo-left alliance
Mosque has recently started playing very loud prayer music at 3/4AM - England : r/LegalAdviceUK - " I know this could be a sensitive topic so I’m posting here for advice as I just don’t know what to do. I purchased a home directly opposite an Islamic house of worship a couple of years ago and up to this point we’ve had absolutely no problems aside from it being a bit difficult finding somewhere to park now and then. A few weeks ago my partner and I started waking up in the middle of the night to very loud pre-recorded singing coming from the mosque. We didn’t think much as first, thinking it was just a one-off but it’s been consistently every night since for several weeks now and is always at 3 and 4 o’clock in the morning. With the heatwave recently we’ve been wanting to sleep with our windows open to combat the temperature but it only makes the music louder so we’re constantly getting interrupted sleep. It’s every night of the week and my partner and I both have 9-5s that we need to rest for. I’m quite an anxious and non-confrontational person and I’m especially nervous given the cultural sensitivities involved here. What would be the best course of action? Can anything even be done?"
Freedom, Georgia - Wikipedia - "It was created by 19 African-American families who together purchased 96.71 acres (39.14 hectares) of land in Wilkinson County, near Macon, with the goal of incorporating a city that is a "safe haven for people of color"... As of July 2023, the settlement consists of a dilapidated campground, and its founders are working on establishing roads and utility services before beginning building residences. Despite a major setback with controversy surrounding embezzlement of the original funds, a new investor was able to wipe the proof and by purchasing an additional 400 acres. No one involved has been brought up on any charges involving FGI. Currently, the settlement consists of more than 500 acres (200 hectares) throughout two parcels. As of May 2024, construction for permanent dwellings or vital infrastructure has not begun. As of June 2025 no updates have been given to the future of the project, with their X account being de-activated and no further updates from any social media platform."
"Whites-only" group plans Missouri expansion, sparking more controversy - "A “whites-only” group called Return to the Land (RTTL), derided by critics as racist and antisemitic, is looking to expand its reach from its base in northern Arkansas to an area near Springfield, Mo., a co-founder of the group said recently. The prospect of a growing “whites-only” community — where members are evaluated based on European ancestry and where Jews are denied membership — is raising concerns among state and local officials and activist groups. RTTL, which describes itself as a private member association, began development in 2023 on its base in northern Arkansas, which sits on 160 acres of land. A co-founder of the group, Eric Orwoll, told KOLR that he hopes to expand soon to an area of land outside Springfield, and, eventually, expand to all 50 states."
Inside Return to the Land ‘whites-only’ community in Arkansas - "Founded in September 2023 by Eric Orwoll, Peter Csere, Gavin Baker and Scott Hollowood, RTTL owns approximately 160 acres outside Ravenden, Arkansas, according to business records. Construction on the first community at RTTL’s Ravenden compound began in 2024. According to reporting from Sky News, around 40 people currently live there"
Melinda Richards 🇦🇺🇺🇸 on X - "Dear world, I am proud to announce that Australia is at the forefront of grooming & sexualising children. A graphic book about sex aimed at children aged 8-13 as a finalist in a national literary award. Wonderful to be a world leader…"
Willa, aka Liberty Belle, the 355 🇺🇸🔔 on X - "“Why would they promote this book to 8 year olds?!” Because Queer Theory has no limiting principles. It is fundamentally about destabilization & removing long-standing social norms. To a Queer Theorist, what we think of as childhood innocence is actually the intentional withholding of liberatory knowledge by an oppressive force that prevents children from realizing themselves. Safeguarding childhood innocence upholds unfair social systems that perpetuate oppression & injustices. That is what Queer Theorists believe. Their praxites, like the teachers & librarians who promote these books think they’re being “good people.” Read The Queering of the American Child. @LoganLancing @ConceptualJames"
Steven Sinofsky on X - "WA state passed a law that just went into effect today that essentially makes any crime a hate crime so long as the case can be made that even a part of the crime was motivated by bias or hate. So if you are frustrated by government fraud and in your tweet or protest sign includes "Somali" then your charges can be multiplied into hate crimes. Also of note, the victims of such crimes can now get time off work because a hate crime is now considered in the same light as having a physical stalker or having been assaulted which were the previous crimes permitted paid leave. The law now includes:
Expansion: Now explicitly includes assaults (even without physical injury), property damage, and threats that create reasonable fear.
Perceived Characteristics: Covers acts based on a perpetrator's perception of a victim's race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc., even if mistaken.
Online Offenses: Includes crimes committed via internet or online communication. See https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Bi"
‘Conservatives Want Women In Handmaid’s Tale Outfits,’ Declares Liberal Wearing Hijab | Babylon Bee - "Democratic Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan donned a full hijab for a press conference where she warned that conservatives want to force women into Handmaid's Tale outfits. Flanagan adjusted her head covering as she cautioned that Republicans would like nothing more than to force women to cover their bodies and be treated as property. "If Republicans had their way, women would all be shoved into Handmaid outfits," explained Flanagan as she replaced her mouth covering. "They want a culture where young women are stripped of their rights and become totally subjugated to men. Women wouldn't be allowed to wear anything but their mandated dress, or even leave the house without permission. It's absolutely disgusting to imagine.""
IVY on X - "unpopular opinion but your political views are more than opinions, they’re a reflection of your values, your empathy, and the way you see humanity."
Left wingers think intentions matter more than outcomes and that those who disagree with them aren't just wrong but evil.
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "A major reason that things have gotten so crazy for the center-left is that because they were able to enforce consensus so easily socially they stopped feeling the need to justify policy empirically. Appreciating empiric reality is a major break that keeps things from going off the rails and allows you to back away from bad ideas. In lieu of asking, ‘does this work?’ libs ask, ‘do you want to be a good person and support this?’ - this switch had no limiting principle and by socially incentivizing dishonesty and ignorance it has fatally impaired basic technocratic sense making."
Major British university urges end to exams as part of plans to 'decolonise' its business school - because 'they favour white students' - "Birmingham University says the traditional methods of assessment are measures of ‘smartness based on white privilege’, adding that it is harder for students from ethnic minorities to do well. The university – part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities – made the astonishing claim in a new paper about how to ‘decolonise’ its business school. It decreed business degrees must change their systems and structures to cut links with ‘colonialism and its legacies’. And in a commentary released with the report, Prof Sally Everett, from another renowned university – King’s College London – waxed lyrical about the ‘unearned advantages of being white’ and ‘the privileges of whiteness’ and advocated ‘decolonising assessment’. She claimed that traditional assessment methods ‘perpetuate systemic inequalities’ and suggested ‘low-stakes assessments’ such as ‘writing reflective journals’ should replace them. The report concluded that assessment practices, such as in-person, timed exams or graded essays, should go because they are potentially ‘tools of exclusion’. It said these ‘marginalise knowledge’ and devalue skills from ‘non-Western traditions’. It is all part of an equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) drive launched by the university’s business department in response to the Black Lives Matter protests... The report, called ‘Decolonising a business school in context: from theory to practice’, is part of a three-year project. Other activities have included taking business students to an art gallery to hear race theory interpretations of paintings and sculptures. The report noted: ‘This work may be uncomfortable, but it is hopeful.’... A University of Birmingham spokesman defended the project as ‘a product of academically rigorous research and discussions with academics within and outside of Birmingham Business School’."
Major British university urges end to exams as part of plans to 'decolonise' its business school - because 'they favour white students' : r/europe_sub - "We got the same shit at school in Germany. Lefties here declared math sort of right wing... Pupils are no longer required to learn how to calculate with fractions by hand. That this would help them to learn how this works, for later use at a computer or calculator, they keep forgetting. Or in Berlin, if you want to become a police officer, but are a guy with MENAPT background who doesn't really speak and understands German, they ditched the language part on the exam. Besides, if quality checks (exams) are removed, this will yield way more people who just picked the job for the "huge salary" but are totally crap at it. These people don't understand that they won't get past the probation time. And employers aren't dumb. If word gets around that students from a particular school don't have to undergo exams, their chances to be even invited to an interview will shrink down to zero - no matter if they are white, pink, green, brown or yellow rainbow unicorn cupcake."
I thought it was white supremacists who said non-whites couldn't do exams
Indian man called 'slave' at workplace in UK, awarded 67,000 pounds compensation - "The man, identified as Madhesh Ravichandran, hails from Tamil Nadu. He started working at a KFC branch in London’s West Wickham in January 2023 where he alleged that his manager called him a “slave” and forced him to work for extra hours, the tribunal was told, reported BBC. Two months after starting working at the fast food chain, Ravichandran said that he was denied his annual leave. He also heard his boss, identified as Kajan Theiventhiram, telling another staffer that he would prioritise staff who were Sri Lankan Tamil and referred to Ravichandran as “this slave”"
Indian man called 'slave' at workplace in UK, awarded 67,000 pounds compensation : r/uknews - "I would let people call me whatever the hell they want for much less."
Mario Nawfal on X - "🇺🇸 MSNBC JOURNALIST SAYS RACES HAVE NO GENETIC DIFFERENCE, GETS FACT-CHECKED ON HER OWN SHOW
MSNBC’s Paola Ramos told a pronatalist couple [Malcolm and Simone Collins] she was interviewing that there’s no scientific evidence Black and white people are genetically different. She repeated it multiple times, even after Simone Collins told her that basic genes, like the ones for melanin production, obviously differ between populations. Ramos kept insisting that science says otherwise, even after being told the data comes from places like the NIH and American Medical Association. The couple pointed out hard science: genes vary across populations. That’s why certain groups have different risks for diseases, fertility windows, or how meds affect them. It doesn’t mean one group is better than another. It just means humans are genetically diverse. Ignoring genetic differences between human populations doesn't make you enlightened, it makes you a science-denying ideologue. Online backlash came fast, with people citing real science, from SLC24A5 to Lewontin’s fallacy, and wondering how someone with a Harvard degree could say something so disconnected from biology. Source: @EndWokeness , @Mrgunsngear"
Libs of TikTok on X - "Former Boston City Councilmember Tania Fernandes Anderson (D) lashes out at the media after she was sentenced to prison for kickback scheme, begs the media to stop covering the story and claims they’re biased against her cuz she’s Black." <
p>Arts Counc il funds ‘Decolonise Fest’ that won’t let white people run it
Weird. Left wingers tell us that punk has always been against white supremacy, patriarchy, classism, ableism and Islamophobia
Once again, an "ally" is a useless idiot who is grudgingly tolerated but ultimately still despised
Meme - "Teen killer sentenced to 14 years in stabbing death of Barnard student Tessa Majors"
F*reskin @wastedremix: "the guy who simply filmed ahmaud auburys death got life in prison. 3 black dudes held her down she escaped twice just for them to catch her again and stab her multiple times in the heart. he will be out of prison by the age of 30. this country fucking sucks."
CMV: r/aznidentity still exists because the target of their hate is white people : r/changemyview
Full stops in words? Non merci, says French education ministry in ban on gender-inclusive language - "France’s education ministry has banned the use of gender-inclusive words in classrooms, saying they "harm" learning and risk cementing the status of English as the world’s dominant language. The decree sent to schools across the country took specific aim at the practice of introducing full stops into the middle of words to denote both masculine and feminine endings, such as turning “amis” (friends) into “ami.e.s” - a so-called 'midpoint'... two members of the Académie francaise, the 400-year-old institution which guards the French language, banned the use of midpoints in schools, saying they are “harmful to the practice and understanding of the French language.” In its defense of the ban, France’s Education Ministry said spelling out words with midpoints was confusing. “It dislocates words, breaks them into two,” said Nathalie Elimas, the State Secretary for Priority Education. “With the spread of inclusive writing, the English language - already quasi-hegemonic across the world - would certainly and perhaps forever defeat the French language.” In an interview with the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, France's Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said the use of midpoints also put people with learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, at a disadvantage. “Putting dots in the middle of words presents a barrier when it comes to teaching the [French] language,” Mr Blanquer said, arguing it was harder for students to read words with midpoints out loud. The SUD Education Union, one of the largest teaching unions, called for educators to ignore the Ministry’s decree, and demanded that Blanquer “stop trying to impose his backwardness on the education community.” Some concessions were made to proponents of inclusive language. The decree calls for the feminisation of job titles for women, such as using “présidente” instead of “président” when referring to a female leader. Most job titles in French are masculine and linguists have found evidence of women being discouraged from applying to roles with exclusively male titles. The decree also encourages the use of femine and masculine options when posting a school job announcement - for example “le candidat or la candidate,” to make it clear the role is open to both men and women... The debate over inclusivity in the French language also sparked headlines in February, when 60 MPs proposed a new law that would ban public servants from using gender inclusive words in their work. “The advent of inclusive writing makes the learning of the French language harder, since it creates a gap between the spoken language and the written language,” the MPs, a mix of centrists from President Emmanuel Macron’s party and the conservative Les Republicains, wrote in the proposal. In the fall of 2017, then Prime Minister Edouard Philippe also banned the use of inclusive words amongst cabinet colleagues, stating “the masculine [form] is a neutral form which should be used for terms liable to apply to women.”"
From 2021
