Oxford University has published an open letter hinting at special treatment for any ‘Black students’ who can claim in some way to have been traumatised …
Oxford University has published an open letter hinting at special treatment for any ‘Black students’ who can claim in some way to have been traumatised by the ‘brutal killing of George Floyd.’
Oxford is 3,959 miles away from Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed. The territory occupied by Minnesota has not been under British jurisdiction for nearly 250 years. And there have in the United Kingdom been many, many more local incidents which might more reasonably have traumatised students at Oxford University — ranging from the rape gangs which tortured and sexually abused underage girls right on the university’s doorstep in Oxford itself to, just 160 miles away, the slaughter and mutilation by a Muslim suicide bomber of dozens of kids attending an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.
But the university, in its wisdom, has decided that the killing of George Floyd is of near-unique significance and has written to its student body accordingly.
