Oh please. Calm down. A lot of people on this forum quite rightly don't like anti-Semitism. It isn't polite to point out that a particular Jew has a big nose.

It's just common sense.

Starkey used poor language.

However, Starkey has always held firm opinions. I hear that in the past he disavowed Enoch Powell so essentially I'm not quite sure where he stands on non European immigration into the country.

What is clear however is that double standards are clearly being implemented. If Cambridge had sacked their non white academic for stating that 'white lives don't matter - as white lives' then I could accept their position....while not agreeing with the free speech punishment.

However, as we see here, because Starkey is an old white male, no such protections exist for him.

I'm still waiting for discover this 'white privilege' because all I'm seeing is the opposite.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

So an opinion is not allowed if the language used is idiosyncratic and or it offends someone or offends someone by proxy?

This is a dangerous path don't you think.

So if someone is Jewish you can't criticise them?

Surely it would be rude to tell anyone they had a big nose but that would make it no less true or untrue.

He isn't. He was a violent criminal.
As far as I'm aware, David Starkey hasn't robbed any pregnant women at gunpoint.

Not a good comparison.

Have any non-white academics said that? This seems like quite an academic argument.

George Floyd was killed by a incompetent policemen for trying to us a fake $20 bill.

David Starkey resigned from his position as a unpaid honorary fellow, where you have to do no work, for saying:

"Slavery was not genocide otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived."

Not sure the consequences are the same either.

That’s extremely provocative statement and will take quite a long and contrived explanation along with a leap of faith to claim its non-offensive. In my view, most things that need a long explanation to justify their point of view are generally bulls***.

Its pretty obviously offensive, and I don’t think one of the best university in the world should be represented by someone prone to saying something so stupid.

On an change of topic. Oxford and Cambridge are full of rich kids sniffing drugs up their noises. A lot of people from poorer background sell those posh kids the drugs. Whilst I think it’s too late for most drug dealers and I couldn’t care less what happens to them, if you take away the demand, you take away the supply. If there’s no supply, maybe less young black kids will be enticed into crime, stabbed/arrested/hassled by the police.

If BLM stopped all this s*** about taking a knee, saying people’s names, and defunding the police, but instead said, we want rich white people to stop taking coke and tougher penalties for those found in possession of drugs for recreational use, then I might respect them.