In what is surely the most ironic news story you will have the pleasure of reading this week Edinburgh University has banned white people from asking questions at an “anti-racism” event.
The conference, which is being held by the “Resisting Whiteness group” describes itself as a QTPOC (queer and trans people of colour) organisation has said the event seeks to amplify the voices of people of colour
The organisation released a statement saying:
“We will therefore not be giving the microphone to white people during the Q&As, not because we don’t think white people have anything to offer to the discussion, but because we want to amplify the voices of people of colour.
“If you are a white person with a question, please share it with a member of the committee or our speakers after the panel discussion.”
Anti-racism campaigner Jane McColl condemned the event calling it “blatantly racist” and stated
“It sets back the battle to achieve equality and fairness by decades, all because of the actions of a tiny group of extremists, whose perverse sense of logic has led them to belittle white people, not by who they are as individuals, by merely because of their skin colour.
Imagine if this event was called ‘Resisting Blackness’ and non-white people were told they could not ask questions, nor access a room because they were the ‘wrong’ colour.”
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