I’m Disabled, and I Despise Cultural Victimhood

As it currently stands, university campuses across the Western world are being eaten from the inside out – this is just an undeniable reality.

Just when you thought that universities could not do anything more extraordinarily fascistic, they do. Yes, the campus thought police are on the march once more. This time, it is more than a protest or a de-platforming or whatever else has been going on in our once great centers of higher learning. Two separate incidents on both sides of the Atlantic illustrate how pathological the attitudes towards freedom of thought and expression have become across the Anglo-sphere.

Firstly – consider Britain. King’s College London has made impressive new strides in its efforts to be crowned “social justice warrior college of the year.” As of this term, the King’s College London Student’s Union is paying what it calls “safe space marshals” to attend speaking events and sit in the audience to protect the attendees from speech that might prove offensive or uncomfortable, instructed to intervene at the first sign of wrongthink. The safe space marshals are required to put up posters declaring the location a “safe space,” and record instances of offensive behaviour towards minorities reported to them by audience members.

The first speaker to enjoy this new form of policing was the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is, of course, considered a dire threat to student safety and wellbeing given his orthodox religious views and his conservative politics. As he describes it, there were three “heavies” at his talk, waiting to jump in and save the day, mobiles presumably ready to call in heavy emotional support if they found Rees-Mogg’s words too difficult to bear themselves. Of this stuff are heroes made.

This begs to question whether or not these “safe space marshals” would have intervened when the KCL Islamic Society hosted a speaker who failed to condemn stoning for adultery, calling it as merciful as euthanasia earlier this year.