{"id":845,"date":"2018-11-23T16:38:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=845"},"modified":"2019-01-17T19:17:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:17:15","slug":"subtext-183-white-man-in-lancaster-sugarhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/11\/23\/subtext-183-white-man-in-lancaster-sugarhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"subtext 183 – \u2018(white man) in lancaster sugarhouse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this issue: editorial, snowsports special report<\/a>, demo in the square<\/a>, charges for overseas staff<\/a>, lost and found<\/a>, shart<\/a>, letters<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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EDITORIAL<\/span><\/p>\n

For the past week it appears University House has been on lockdown. Once you walk through Reception and make for the stairs to B Floor and above you have to either explain yourself to the Security guard, or have a ‘valid pass’.<\/span><\/p>\n

Organisations go into lockdown when they fear something. In this case, the fear is of student action over the fallout from the Snowsports Society white t-shirt social. That the information was leaked by a whistleblower and picked up by the national press shows the scale of the issue which senior management are trying to brush off. They are right to be in lockdown, because people are angry. Lancaster: we have a problem. <\/span><\/p>\n

From the scrawling of swastikas on office doors to the Snowsports Society shitstorm, fascism in its many masks, old and new, is here on campus. It wants women in the kitchen and it thinks rape is a joke. It demands ‘free speech’ in order to promote hate, and wraps all this in either a sugar coating of intellectual rigour, or vomit stained fresher-on-a-bender banter. It is part of a wider wave of global far right populism and xenophobia that results in children being separated from their parents and incarcerated at borders, and in a ‘hostile environment’ that punishes and ostracises the very people it should be welcoming. It leads to spots and sometimes swathes of political extremism, right out in the open, in the mainstream, in government. Anger in response to this is normal and it is right. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Students’ Union should be ashamed of itself for acting so slowly, and in future should take immediate and visible action to investigate and sanction societies that enable this kind of behaviour. They should reinstate suspended LUSU officer Chloe Long: whistleblowers should not be made scapegoats. Senior management should denounce the most recent events, and all those preceding, publicly and loudly. More than that, they should be proactive and transparent in enabling staff and students to create a positive culture that welcomes everyone… except fascists. <\/span><\/p>\n

And the rest of us? We have to show up, and stand up to this crap wherever it appears. Let’s put the whole campus on lockdown for fascism: they shall not pass. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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