Toby Young the Eugenicist
Toby Young is a right-wing journalist and he is one dangerous man.
Theresa May's war on Students, Universities and young people just got deeper and more dangerous. Tories have taken on a right-wing journalist to lead this war and silence the left.
The former journalist and free school advocate Toby Young is among a group of business executives who are to help head the government’s drive to apply market forces to higher education in England, as new laws come into force that will regulate universities in the same way as water or gas utilities, according to ministers.
Jo Johnson, the minister for higher education, hailed the new Office for Students (OfS) – which comes into legal existence on Monday – as the answer to concerns over students receiving value for money for their degrees while taking on increasing debt, and opening the sector up to increased competition.
TORIES TRYING TO REWRITE HISTORY
Johnson, who piloted the laws establishing the OfS through parliament, told the Guardian that the demands of consumers and taxpayers needed a heavyweight market regulator that would actively intervene in the same way as Ofwat or Ofcom in water or telecoms.
Whether Youngs personal and political leanings are entirely right to be regulating education is open to debate. For instance, his fondness for ‘progressive eugenics.’
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, eugenics is;
The selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans.
Once a popular idea, eugenics is now widely regarded as a pseudo-science. Trying to genetically improve humans like racehorses, cattle or plants by breeding out those deemed weakest has long been in disfavour. Especially after the Nazis adopted eugenicist ideas as part of their justification for breeding a master race.
Tories are becoming more and more like the Nazis its time to wake up.
sources:
https://evolvepolitics.com/new-tory-university-tsar-toby-young-compared-disabled-students-to-functionally-illiterate-troglodytes/
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/01/toby-young-universities-regulator-office-for-students
Theresa May's war on Students, Universities and young people just got deeper and more dangerous. Tories have taken on a right-wing journalist to lead this war and silence the left.
The former journalist and free school advocate Toby Young is among a group of business executives who are to help head the government’s drive to apply market forces to higher education in England, as new laws come into force that will regulate universities in the same way as water or gas utilities, according to ministers.
Jo Johnson, the minister for higher education, hailed the new Office for Students (OfS) – which comes into legal existence on Monday – as the answer to concerns over students receiving value for money for their degrees while taking on increasing debt, and opening the sector up to increased competition.
TORIES TRYING TO REWRITE HISTORY
Johnson, who piloted the laws establishing the OfS through parliament, told the Guardian that the demands of consumers and taxpayers needed a heavyweight market regulator that would actively intervene in the same way as Ofwat or Ofcom in water or telecoms.
Whether Youngs personal and political leanings are entirely right to be regulating education is open to debate. For instance, his fondness for ‘progressive eugenics.’
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, eugenics is;
The selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans.
Once a popular idea, eugenics is now widely regarded as a pseudo-science. Trying to genetically improve humans like racehorses, cattle or plants by breeding out those deemed weakest has long been in disfavour. Especially after the Nazis adopted eugenicist ideas as part of their justification for breeding a master race.
Tories are becoming more and more like the Nazis its time to wake up.
sources:
https://evolvepolitics.com/new-tory-university-tsar-toby-young-compared-disabled-students-to-functionally-illiterate-troglodytes/
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/01/toby-young-universities-regulator-office-for-students
