Because it fits a narrative. (State comprehensive, pot washer, TEFL teacher, beneficiary of ESRC 1+3 grant, knower of Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and several of the less salubrious corners of Warsaw.)
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All those privately educated individuals from elite backgrounds who have ended up as lefty-luvvies ranting about white privilege must be a terrible disappointment to their parents.
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I would pen a reply but I’m too busy with the unconscious bias monitoring form my university apparently makes me fill in every week
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Well said - i’m an academic who has grown up in Rotherham and indeed still lives here! Shock not all academics live in ivory towers. These sweeping generalisations aren’t helpful.
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It worse than that. It literally describes NOBODY I know in academia. By contrast, I know a lot who were first generation university graduates and who are from lower middle class backgrounds. Almost every academic I know was state educated. I can count the exceptions on one hand.
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Maybe the Unis in my career are not elite enough, but I am having trouble thinking of any colleague (or even any academic I’ve ever met) fitting this criteria. I did love working in Pizza Hut though when I was young.
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Exactly. It literally describes nobody I have ever known in academia. And I’ve been working in this profession for 27 years.
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I’m blocked by Goodwin because I’ve long thought he’s ridiculous with a one trick pony narrative that is now completely outdated and told him so whenever he crossed my timeline
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Is it "valid" when such disingenuous claims are made in the Daily Mail, with a clear ideological aim? Surely we should be past giving the benefit of the doubt and be clear that this is no honest mistake.
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If he wants to tell his life story to the readers of the Mail on Sunday, then I think that’s his choice. I wouldn’t do it personally. What really concerns me is that he is falsely claiming it to be unique and exceptional, by painting a picture of the rest of us that’s just a lie.
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