Goldsmiths University Diversity officer facing sack

[Orang Utan]

have you read it?

Yes

 

[brogdale]

I didn't think I needed to state that calling for all white men to be killed wasn't a very wise thing to do.

Indeed not. Doesn't the state have a view on that sort of thing? Incitement?

 

[killer b]

I'm sure there is a role for it, I'm doubtful how often that role is actually useful and not just used to tick another box.

Better engagement with faculty and students would be better and cross cultural events appealing to both minorities and majorities would be good.

Have you ever needed to access the services provided by a diversity officer?

 

[BigMoaner]

ah of course - thats sad and makes me feel somewhat sorry for everyone involved (and being mocked)
To me student politics is a place to find yourself and cut your teeth a little, in the relatively safe space and small scale of the campus - whatever the rights and wrongs of this this isn't something that should be covered in national newspapers and shared hundreds of thousands of times on the internet.

you'd say the same if it was a white diversity officer at goldsmiths saying kill all blacks or muslims?

 

[Artaxerxes]

Have you ever needed to access the services provided by a diversity officer?

As an evil white-cis male I have not.

I have never known anyone take them seriously or use the services and I went to a college with around 40-50% asian students if that counts though.

 

[killer b]

You have black friends? Thanks for letting me know.

 

[friedaweed]

I went to Goldsmiths. They let all sorts of idiots in there

 

[Artaxerxes]

You have black friends? Thanks for letting me know.

No I've not actually, but then I've got no white friends either

 

[killer b]

As an evil white-cis male I have not.

Also, give over with this.

 

[BigMoaner]

what does the cis stand for?

 

[Citizen66]

 

[DaveCinzano]

I had six (literary studies)

Presumably 'read the name of the forum in which you are posting' was only covered in hour seven?

 

[DaveCinzano]

YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!

That nearly gave me hiccups

 

[Artaxerxes]

what does the cis stand for?

Not sure but its thrown out in a lot of these articles by both sides, think it means straight.

edit: I'm staying out of this from now on, way out of my depth and only posting because bored shitless.

 

[Orang Utan]

Presumably 'read the name of the forum in which you are posting' was only covered in hour seven?

Give over.

 

[BigMoaner]

she is encouraging hatred instead of change and understanding and she should be sacked off sharpish. it's offensive. you can talk about power structures and privilage all your like, but if my black neighbours on my street started talking like that to me or my family, i'd want them arrested, just like if hte whites on my street started talking like that about my black neighbours. just because she's a student and a diversity officer shouldn't make any difference.

 

[Citizen66]

what does the cis stand for?

That you have the temerity to fancy women I think.

 

[Orang Utan]

what does the cis stand for?

It's not an abbreviation, it's a prefix from Latin for 'on this side' as opposed to trans- as a prefix

 

[BigMoaner]

It's not an abbreviation, it's a prefix from Latin for 'on this side' as opposed to trans- as a prefix

thanks.

 

[Orang Utan]

That you have the temerity to fancy women I think.

No

 

[killer b]

she is encouraging hatred instead of change and understanding and she should be sacked off sharpish. it's offensive. you can talk about power structures and privilage all your like, but if my black neighbours on my street started talking like that to me or my family, i'd want them arrested, just like if hte whites on my street started talking like that about my black neighbours.

this is true. I don't think anyone is saying what she said is ok.

 

[Citizen66]

No

It doesn't mean straight then?

 

[tufty79]

Nope.

 

[Citizen66]

What does it mean then?

 

[BigMoaner]

this?

A “cis” person is a person who was assigned a gender and sex at birth that they feel comfortable with. Typically, cis men are men who were assigned male at birth and feel that the words "man" and "male" accurately describe who they are. Likewise, cis women are women who were assigned female at birth and feel that the words "woman" and "female" accurately describe who they are. Generally, cis people feel comfortable with the aspects of their bodies that others inscribe with a sex and gender, and do not seek to modify their bodies in ways that would change how they or others place them in a sex category.

 

[tufty79]

Pretty much.

 

[BigMoaner]

so as i identify, i guess, with being a man i am a CIS?

 

[BigMoaner]

ok, clear now. carry on.

 

[Blagsta]

what does the cis stand for?

Cissy

 

[BigMoaner]

sacking - yes.
brutalised over the internet and media - no.