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muriel_volestrangler

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Sat Oct 9, 2021, 06:35 PM Oct 2021

"Stop cancel culture by cancelling people" - even for a Tory MP, this is dumb [View all]

Tory MP says using term ‘white privilege’ should be reported as extremism

A Conservative MP has said anyone using the term “white privilege” should be reported to the government’s counter-terror programme, and that teachers who criticise the Conservative party should be sacked.
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[Jonathan] Gullis, who is a former member of the parliamentary education select committee, was speaking at an event organised by the Conservative Friends of Education group. He added: “I hope [using the term white privilege] will be reported, I hope that will be looked into, and any teacher who’s perpetuated it in the classroom ultimately should face a disciplinary hearing at the very least.”
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During the same event, the 31-year-old MP said that teachers should be “sacked” if they criticise the Conservatives. He was elected to the Commons in 2019 for Stoke-on-Trent North.

“The other way we can stop the cancel culture is by actually saying to the woke left lecturers and the woke left teachers – who seem to be becoming more and more apparent – is that ultimately, what’s going to happen if you are going to push your ideology in the classroom there are going to be consequences for you,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/09/tory-mp-says-using-term-white-privilege-should-be-reported-as-extremism

I'd hope he was taken off the education committee when it became apparent that the attempt to educate him had totally failed.
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Wow LeftishBrit Oct 2021 #1
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