Does anyone speak Woke on here - so that they can translate?

Not fluently I'm afraid but this is from their website:

“Given that educational institutions throughout the world are actively engaged in decolonising their curricula, Stevenson’s work and legacy present a particularly valuable focus of inquiry. Stevenson became actively involved in supporting Samoan and Hawaiian indigenous sovereignty movements at a crucial period just before these islands were annexed by the US and Germany.”

However, it said that while the writer treated South Seas locals “with considerable agency and dignity” they sadly include “many of the colonial stereotypes typical of fin-de-siecle western literature.”

Exactly. Earlier I posted about researchers I know and forgot to include this point.

So this lady had been researching poverty in Bolton and was complaining about how hard she had been working and what a terrible life immigrants had. I soon figured out that when she talked about Bolton she was not interested in researching white poor people, oh no.

Anyway she was not happy when I asked the question, "who are you doing this research for?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well has the government asked you to do this research? Or the Labour Party? or a poverty charity?"

It turned out she had decided she wanted to do the research and had persuaded the university to fund it. In other words no one asked for this to be done and no one was going to read her results, still it made her feel good. Nice work...

Another researcher admitted to me she had taken a grant from the French Olympic Committee to do research related to the up coming Parish games. She happily admitted she had no interest in that and was going to investigate the lives of migrants in Paris.

Edited by Badger11 (27 Mar 2024 7.51am)

One more point

Glad to learn that. It’s probably the only thing you have contributed here that I agree with. I did though say “like” you!

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Just for the record I have not said it isn’t a ridiculous waste of money. What I have said is no one, other than those involved and the funder, has the information to determine that. Those, like the Mail, who write deliberately provocative articles designed to enrage their readership are not doing anyone a service. They are pursuing a political agenda.

With so many genuinely concerning things happening in the world it’s reasonable to ask why any “newspaper” would choose to run this as a story.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

You pay it on your own do you? Or do taxes arrive out of thin air?

I know we run a deficit so not all spending is taxation based. The point is that this is a government responsibility, not an individual one.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.