University professor who called students 'pathetic' over woke walkout from talk by Rod Liddle is barred from duty and faces investigation

A university head is under investigation and has been barred from duties after branding a walkout by woke students ‘pathetic’.

Professor Tim Luckhurst, principal of Durham’s South College, made the remark when youngsters staged a walkout during a speech by Right-wing journalist Rod Liddle.

Following an outcry, Professor Luckhurst emailed students to apologise – but the university has launched an investigation into his conduct.

It is understood he is not allowed to speak to anybody about the controversy, and was did not make a scheduled campus speech last night. He has also been barred from attending a university business trip in America.

Liddle, the associate editor of the Spectator, started his speech at a college formal last Friday night by joking that he was disappointed not to see any sex workers, referring to a recent controversy over safety training provided by the university to students working in the sex industry.

He also said the Left were ignoring science over transgender issues, that colonialism was not the main cause of Africa’s problems and the underachievement of pupils of Caribbean descent had nothing to do with institutional racism.

After the speech, students shouted ‘disgusting’ and ‘racist’ at Liddle as he walked out of the venue. That evening, a Stonewall poster was stuck on the door of Professor Luckhurst’s office reading, ‘Some people are trans. Get over it!’

Students wrote to Durham vice-chancellor Antony Long, claiming Liddle made ‘transphobic, sexist, racist and classist remarks’. The open letter, signed by more than 1,000 students, complained they felt ‘distressed’ and ‘emotional’ after his speech.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10281755/University-professor-called-students-pathetic-woke-walkout-faces-investigation.html

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40 percent of Hispanic voters are offended by term ‘Latinx,’ poll finds

The increased usage of the words “Latinx” by Democrats may actually hinder their party’s efforts to win over voters of Latin American origin, a new poll finds.

Just 2 percent of registered voters of Hispanic, Latina or Latino origin who were questioned in the nationwide poll identified as “Latinx” — while 40 percent of the same 800 interviewees said they were offended in some way by the gender-neutral word.

“The numbers suggest that using Latinx is a violation of the political Hippocratic Oath, which is to first do no electoral harm,” Fernand Amandi, principal with Democratic firm Bendixen & Amandi International, which conducted the poll, told Politico.

“Why are we using a word that is preferred by only 2 percent, but offends as many as 40 percent of those voters we want to win?” he asked.

The poll also found that 30 percent of voters were “less likely to support” a politician or political organization that uses “Latinx” to talk about the nation’s Latin American community.

Proponents of the term argue, in part, that Spanish words shouldn’t end with an “O” — the vowel typically used with masculine nouns — when describing a mixed-gender group.

Critics counter that “Latinx” is confusing to the Latin American community because Spanish words don’t end in the letter X.

Responding to the poll, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) noted, “Hispanic, Latin American are gender-neutral. “So we have already gender-neutral options to describe the Latino community. Adding an ‘X’ and creating a new word comes off as performative,” Gallego said.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/06/40-percent-of-hispanic-voters-are-offended-by-latinx-poll-finds/

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