British police visits and academic theories: How free speech gets limited today
Modern academic theories shape how government handles offensive speech. From university halls to police stations a new system of thought-control emerges showing similarities with historical examples
The way free-speech gets limited starts in weird places: a geology professor says her field is racist a Welsh government wants to fix white peoples thoughts and Allison Pearson gets a police visit - its all connected
A professor at Queen Mary University Kathryn Yusoff made some eye-raising claims: geology is full of racism (because it started as a colonial thing) and works within white-supremacist ways. At the same-time Wales government announced plans to change white peoples beliefs using:
- mandatory training
- public institutions
- de-colonized history lessons
- behavior modification programs
These ideas dont stay in universities - they shape real policies. Prof Emmanuel Ogbonna CBE who helps run Walesʼs plan thinks both voluntary and forced changes are needed; comparing it to slavery saying “waiting for slave owners to change their minds would have taken forever“
The police recording of non-crime hate incidents (which happened to Allison Pearson) started about 30 years ago after the Stephen Lawrence case. Now cops log bad thoughts to stop them becoming real crimes - just like Soviet “profilaktika“ system where theyʼd have a friendly-but-scary chat with people who told wrong jokes
British people report around 65 non-crime hate incidents each day; showing how much we like following rules. Its weird that while drug dealers get out of jail early and some serious crimes get light sentences a young care worker got 9 months for streaming riot aftermath (not even the actual riot)
The system makes its own logic: if you say police are unfair theyll prove you wrong by being extra unfair. Like the old saying goes - disagree with PC culture and youll be called crazy
