{"id":7368,"date":"2018-12-17T08:23:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T08:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T08:24:36","slug":"its-no-fun-fun-fun-at-po-faced-soas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/12\/17\/its-no-fun-fun-fun-at-po-faced-soas\/","title":{"rendered":"There's no fun fun fun at po-faced SOAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times reports that Konstantin Kisin turned down his invitation to speak at SOAS after he was sent a behavioural agreement form\u00a0by the students organising the event, <em>Unicef on Campus<\/em>. \u00a0The form asked him to accept the group\u2019s no tolerance policy on the following:<\/p>\n<p>racism, sexism, classism, ageism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia or anti-religion or anti-atheism<\/p>\n<p><em>Unicef on Campus's\u00a0<\/em>purpose, it seems, was to ensure a \u201csafe space\u201d and an atmosphere of \u201cjoy, love and acceptance\u201d. \u00a0Quite amazingly, there was nothing on the list to do with veganophobia. \u00a0SOAS must be full of chicken-fanciers.<\/p>\n<p>This nonsense reminded me of going to an isolated Cumbrian pub about 50 years ago \u2013 one of those odd places which was more house than pub; you sat in the living room and the landlady joined you for conversation. \u00a0It was like being at home. \u00a0On this occasion, she said, I don't mind what we talk about as long as it's not religion, politics or sex. \u00a0For three late adolescents, this was a bit of a poser, and we quickly moved on \u2013 just like Kisin.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as Roger Scruton noted the other day, it's still fine to tell jokes about ginger-haired or no-haired people who seem quite unprotected by the humour(less) polizei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times reports that Konstantin Kisin turned down his invitation to speak at SOAS after he was sent a behavioural agreement form\u00a0by the students organising the event, Unicef on Campus. \u00a0The form asked him to accept the group\u2019s no tolerance...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}