Universities in Scotland may be “blindly adopting an extreme form of anti-racism,” a lecturer said, as it emerged an anti-racism programme universities signed up to includes material saying the defence of academic freedom is a sign of so-called white indifference.
Stuart Waiton, senior lecturer at Abertay University, who recently founded The Scottish Union for Education, said the material “essentially labelled academic freedom as racist,” and warned it would lead to academics who believe in academic freedom being “labelled as racist by the very institutions who are meant to promote this.”
Sociology professor Gurnam Singh, who developed the material, said academic freedom is “essential,” but “cannot be a license for peddling racist myths.”…