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General Discussion Area / Sadiq Khan
« on: 14 September 2024, 11:52:48 »
From the Telegraph:Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, is always bursting with ingenious new policy ideas. But this latest scheme may be his most inspired yet.
He wants to let criminals jump the housing queue.
Apparently, the Mayor believes that prioritising former prisoners will make them so grateful, they won’t reoffend – thus cutting crime. A flawless plan.
Well, almost. Unfortunately, I fear that law-abiding Londoners may be a tiny bit miffed at being bumped to the back of the housing queue, just to appease convicted criminals.
And so, to get to the front, they’ll turn to crime themselves.
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General Discussion Area / Opti really will like this
« on: 07 September 2024, 12:01:02 »
More of us should do it to play them at their own game. From the Telegraph:
Now here’s a trend I didn’t see coming. According to an article in Metro, there’s a shameful new phenomenon known as “transfishing”. This, apparently, is “when cisgender people (those whose gender identity aligns with their sex at birth) pretend to be trans for personal gain”.
In case you’re still in the dark, here’s an example. The other day there was a furious uproar online after two female models on OnlyFans – a pornographic subscription service – were accused of pretending to be trans women (who are biologically male). In a caption, they described themselves as “two boys”. Meanwhile, they both appeared to have stuffed objects down the front of their knickers to create a bulge.
In short: here, it seemed, were two females trying to look like males trying to look like females.
Naturally, this made a lot of trans activists very angry. The two models were told that they were “fake” and “disgusting”. One trans commenter wrote that it was “incredibly disrespectful and frustrating to see them profit off our bodies”. Another thundered: “Don’t get in our space.”
I’m sure we can all sympathise. It must be distressing when members of another group invade a space traditionally reserved for one’s own group. Equally, it must feel insulting when they insist that they actually are members of one’s own group, when anyone with eyes can see that they aren’t.
None the less, I think we should defend the two models. If they say they’re trans, then they are trans, and that’s that. Because, as we all know, anyone who questions someone else’s gender identity is a hateful bigot.
Now here’s a trend I didn’t see coming. According to an article in Metro, there’s a shameful new phenomenon known as “transfishing”. This, apparently, is “when cisgender people (those whose gender identity aligns with their sex at birth) pretend to be trans for personal gain”.
In case you’re still in the dark, here’s an example. The other day there was a furious uproar online after two female models on OnlyFans – a pornographic subscription service – were accused of pretending to be trans women (who are biologically male). In a caption, they described themselves as “two boys”. Meanwhile, they both appeared to have stuffed objects down the front of their knickers to create a bulge.
In short: here, it seemed, were two females trying to look like males trying to look like females.
Naturally, this made a lot of trans activists very angry. The two models were told that they were “fake” and “disgusting”. One trans commenter wrote that it was “incredibly disrespectful and frustrating to see them profit off our bodies”. Another thundered: “Don’t get in our space.”
I’m sure we can all sympathise. It must be distressing when members of another group invade a space traditionally reserved for one’s own group. Equally, it must feel insulting when they insist that they actually are members of one’s own group, when anyone with eyes can see that they aren’t.
None the less, I think we should defend the two models. If they say they’re trans, then they are trans, and that’s that. Because, as we all know, anyone who questions someone else’s gender identity is a hateful bigot.
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General Discussion Area / Just noticed
« on: 03 September 2024, 18:33:23 »
In this ad for injnjury lawyers 4u, one of the lawyers is a lion of colour
https://youtu.be/5ufQrwXM-Yc?si=fvBOxv_VMeVIFseF
https://youtu.be/5ufQrwXM-Yc?si=fvBOxv_VMeVIFseF
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General Discussion Area / Opti will love this
« on: 26 August 2024, 11:31:28 »
Teachers will be taught to challenge “whiteness” in lessons, The Telegraph can reveal.
Guidance has been created for teacher-training courses, to ensure future educators are “anti-racist” and prepared to implement this in the classroom.
Teachers will be instructed in how to “disrupt the centrality of whiteness” in schools, according to a best-practice document.
The term “whiteness” in critical race theory refers to social attitudes considered normal by white people, and guidance suggests that concepts including “meritocracy”, “objectivity” and “individualism” should be questioned.
Documents state that student teachers – if they happen to be white – should also be helped to develop and project a “positive white racial identity”.
‘Impact of whiteness’
Separate guidance has been developed in Scotland and England, and both documents have been endorsed by universities offering teacher training, including Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Newcastle, along with the National Education Union.
Documents claim that encouraging “anti-racist” teacher training will help to maintain a diverse teaching workforce, and will help to close the attainment gap between white and non-white pupils.
The Scottish “anti-racism framework”, drawn up by the Scottish Council of Deans of Education and endorsed by 10 universities, states that changes to the way in which teachers are taught will “disrupt the centrality of whiteness and enable different ways of seeing, thinking and doing”.
This process may involve more references to colonialism and racism in lessons, and instilling an understanding of the “impact of whiteness”.
This, it says, will help teachers project a “white racial identity grounded in reality and allyship” in the classroom, free from “false notions of superiority”.
The national anti-racism framework for initial teacher training, launched in 2023, states that those teaching future teachers should “debunk the myth of objectivity” in scholarship, and instead examine how some views are “silenced” in academic work.
Those educating teachers have been urged to strive for racial justice “through activism” and teacher unions, according to the guidance.
Tools of whiteness’
A parallel anti-racism framework for teacher training was commissioned by the National Education Union in 2023, and funded by the University of Newcastle, was developed for England.
It states that “teachers working with all age groups” are “crucial to anti-racism work”, and directs tutors to academic literature on how to deal with “whiteness”.
The term “white” has nearly 400 mentions in the guidance, the term “whiteness” features 121 times.
The assorted academic literature sets out the importance of dispelling “notions of objectivity” along with what are termed the “tools of whiteness”, including “individualism” and “belief in a meritocracy”.
The framework also directs tutors to passages that claim “white privilege” includes the “right to enjoyment”, and that “emotions are themselves racialised”.
Scottish guidance aims to tackle racism in education, and to create a more diverse teaching workforce.
It has been made available by higher education institutions providing teacher training, including the universities Aberdeen, Strathclyde.
A Newcastle University spokesman said: “As we saw with the recent public unrest across the UK, racism is pervasive in our society. The way that we educate current and future teachers will play an important role in breaking this cycle and the framework was developed to provide practical guidance on this.”
Guidance has been created for teacher-training courses, to ensure future educators are “anti-racist” and prepared to implement this in the classroom.
Teachers will be instructed in how to “disrupt the centrality of whiteness” in schools, according to a best-practice document.
The term “whiteness” in critical race theory refers to social attitudes considered normal by white people, and guidance suggests that concepts including “meritocracy”, “objectivity” and “individualism” should be questioned.
Documents state that student teachers – if they happen to be white – should also be helped to develop and project a “positive white racial identity”.
‘Impact of whiteness’
Separate guidance has been developed in Scotland and England, and both documents have been endorsed by universities offering teacher training, including Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Newcastle, along with the National Education Union.
Documents claim that encouraging “anti-racist” teacher training will help to maintain a diverse teaching workforce, and will help to close the attainment gap between white and non-white pupils.
The Scottish “anti-racism framework”, drawn up by the Scottish Council of Deans of Education and endorsed by 10 universities, states that changes to the way in which teachers are taught will “disrupt the centrality of whiteness and enable different ways of seeing, thinking and doing”.
This process may involve more references to colonialism and racism in lessons, and instilling an understanding of the “impact of whiteness”.
This, it says, will help teachers project a “white racial identity grounded in reality and allyship” in the classroom, free from “false notions of superiority”.
The national anti-racism framework for initial teacher training, launched in 2023, states that those teaching future teachers should “debunk the myth of objectivity” in scholarship, and instead examine how some views are “silenced” in academic work.
Those educating teachers have been urged to strive for racial justice “through activism” and teacher unions, according to the guidance.
Tools of whiteness’
A parallel anti-racism framework for teacher training was commissioned by the National Education Union in 2023, and funded by the University of Newcastle, was developed for England.
It states that “teachers working with all age groups” are “crucial to anti-racism work”, and directs tutors to academic literature on how to deal with “whiteness”.
The term “white” has nearly 400 mentions in the guidance, the term “whiteness” features 121 times.
The assorted academic literature sets out the importance of dispelling “notions of objectivity” along with what are termed the “tools of whiteness”, including “individualism” and “belief in a meritocracy”.
The framework also directs tutors to passages that claim “white privilege” includes the “right to enjoyment”, and that “emotions are themselves racialised”.
Scottish guidance aims to tackle racism in education, and to create a more diverse teaching workforce.
It has been made available by higher education institutions providing teacher training, including the universities Aberdeen, Strathclyde.
A Newcastle University spokesman said: “As we saw with the recent public unrest across the UK, racism is pervasive in our society. The way that we educate current and future teachers will play an important role in breaking this cycle and the framework was developed to provide practical guidance on this.”
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General Discussion Area / Guy Martin
« on: 25 August 2024, 17:59:25 »
Tonight at nine on Ch4. Building a fighter jet, apparently 
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General Discussion Area / Is this any good to anyone?
« on: 23 August 2024, 18:19:27 »
Got a new printer which takes 305 and, apparently, they're not interchangeable
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General Discussion Area / Wouldn't it be cool if....
« on: 21 August 2024, 19:21:03 »
....the bastard who killed this poor Amazon driver in Leeds was caught on an Amazon ring doorbell camera.
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General Car Chat / Interesting strategy from jaaaaag
« on: 12 August 2024, 15:54:03 »
Jaguar won't sell cars for a whole YEAR as it ramps up EV-only rebrand https://mol.im/a/13734661
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General Car Chat / Thoughts please chaps
« on: 09 August 2024, 20:16:08 »
https://www.sytner.co.uk/vehicle-details/a1b3f929-1d66-441b-b2c6-932d7f068390
Local to me and looks to fit the bill
Local to me and looks to fit the bill
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General Discussion Area / Decisions, decisions
« on: 02 August 2024, 17:05:07 »
Coming to the end of our usual week away in North Yorkshire. The weather has been fantastic, a bit too hot for doggie if the truth be known. I don't really want to go home, I'm so relaxed when I'm here. Another cottage is available for next week, she hasn't managed to let it for next week. She has offered it to us at a very reduced price, I am sorely tempted. 
I'd have to cancel a couple of things next week, including the MOT on my astra.....
I'd have to cancel a couple of things next week, including the MOT on my astra.....
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General Discussion Area / Just stop oil
« on: 18 July 2024, 18:45:33 »
M25 protest planners jailed, the head honcho for five years 