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Jazz hands? What will the snowflakes dream up next?

TODAY – along with tens of thousands of increasingly hungover first-year students across the country – my son is enjoying the fag-end of Fresher’s Week. When I dropped him off at his university last weekend, I gave him some fatherly advice on what he should wear for the freshers’ fancy dress party.

“Why don’t you go as a cannibal with a grass skirt and a bone through your nose?”

“That’s not funny, dad,” he said. And he’s right.

University these days is no joke. You can get in trouble merely for wearing a sombrero if you are not Mexican or a hula skirt if you are not Hawaiian (“cultural appropriation”).

It’s lucky, I suppose, that my son is not at Manchester.

The student union has decreed that applause might “pose an issue for students with disabilities such as anxiety or sensory issues”.

So instead, what everyone is now supposed to do is British sign language clapping, where the hands don’t actually meet but just waggle in the air.

“Jazz hands” as it’s better known.

Read the rest in the Express.

Student Snowflakes Deface Poem by ‘Racist’ Kipling

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Student activists at Manchester University have defaced a large-scale copy of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” in their Student Union building and replaced it with a poem by Maya Angelou. Kipling, they claim, is ‘racist’.

Not so long ago, this would have been called by its proper name: vandalism. And the student activists would have been appropriately disciplined.

Today, in pretty much every news report I’ve read on the subject, the students just get free, largely uncritical publicity for their toxic identity politics virtue-signalling.

Here’s the Mail version:

On Facebook, Liberation and Access Officer at the University of Manchester Students Union Sara Khan, wrote: “A failure to consult students during the process of adding art to the newly renovated SU building resulted in Rudyard Kipling’s work being painted on the first floor last week.

“We, as an exec team, believe that Kipling stands for the opposite of liberation, empowerment, and human rights – the things that we, as an SU, stand for. “Well-known as author of the racist poem ‘The White Man’s Burden’, and a plethora of other work that sought to legitimate the British Empire’s presence in India and de-humanise people of colour, it is deeply inappropriate to promote the work of Kipling in our SU, which is named after prominent South African anti-Apartheid activist, Steve Biko.”

Fatima Abid, the general secretary of Manchester’s SU, added on Twitter: “Today, as a team we removed an imperialist’s work from the walls of our union and replaced them with the words of Maya Angelou- God knows black and brown voices have been written out of history enough, and it’s time we try to reverse that, at the very least in our union.”

Let’s be clear: these people are freaks.

Read the rest at Breitbart.