Far from bastions of free inquiry, universities today have mostly turned into inquisitorial dungeons of rigid groupthink. Surveys of US universities show that their faculties are uniformly dominated by the left — in some fields, almost completely. That dominance often shows through as a sort of ideologically-driven vindictiveness that would do a Red Guard proud.
Right or even centre-left-leaning students have told me that they don’t dare express their true views in the lecture hall or the tutorial room, because they know they will be set upon by the righteously-far-left students. Not to mention the lecturers: a student who confessed to being a Christian was berated by the lecturer as a “fascist”.
The bullying of non-left students is allegedly seeping into even exam questions. Very personally.
Law students at the University of Sydney will be required to complete a new assessment after a student complained the current one, which used her name, mocked her political views.
Freya Leach, 19, is a member of the Conservative club and the Young Liberals.
It’s astonishing that she hasn’t simply been lynched the instant she set foot on campus. Instead, she was (allegedly) vilified by the faculty.
She said her second-year criminal law cohorts were given a fictional scenario as part of an end of semester test in which a character – a uni student named “Freya” – murders one of her left-leaning peers. The namesake character also deliberately infects a sexual partner with HIV.
Ms Leach requested an apology from the university, claiming the law school was “incompetent at best, malicious at worst”.
Well, I mean, it’s obviously a coincidence. Such a coincidence that dozens of other students immediately drew the link.
Another character made up for the test was “Daniel”, who tells another student named “Adam” to “f**k off you woke pr**k”.
“Unfortunately for Adam, however, he has not realised that a sporty-looking Mercedes car is approaching rapidly from the right. By a total coincidence, the car is driven by Daniel’s friend, Freya,” the scenario read.
“(Adam) is clipped by Freya’s car one metre from the centre of the road. He falls, smashes his head on the ground and dies instantly. As Freya speeds away from the scene, she hears her phone beep. It is a text message from Daniel, which reads simply ‘Great job ;-) One less illiberal liberal!!!!’”
The scenario adds that the character Freya has unprotected sex with Daniel without mentioning she has HIV.
She then gets into a fight with another woman before being thrown out of a window to her death.
This is clearly the sort of scenario that left-wing university professors imagine “right-wingers” get up to all the time. It’s a wonder the scenario didn’t climax with “Freya” and “Daniel” hanging nooses around the neck of a disabled, trans, Muslim Aboriginal student, while shouting, “This is MAGA country!”
The students were asked to assess the criminal liability of the characters in the question.
Well, clearly the fascist deserved to be thrown out of the window, while “woke Adam” deserves a candle-lit vigil, a memorial and days of rioting in his honour.
Ms Leach said she was contacted by 20 students on her course who believed the Freya in the exam was based on her […]
“Memes have already started to circulate, making fun of my character in the problem question and depicting me as having HIV. This exam has had made me feel unsafe to hold a diverse viewpoint at the University of Sydney Law School.”
Oh, come, now: “unsafe” is addressing a man in a dress by the wrong pronouns. Fascists like Freya don’t deserve to be safe.
Students were told via their online portal that the take home paper had been withdrawn and apologised to those who had “dedicated a substantial amount of time” to working on the existing assessment, according to The Australian.
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The scandal, though, is that the faculty clearly felt entitled to humiliate a student because of their political views in the first place. They’re only sorry they got caught.
