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What would 'sensitivity readers' have made of my student scoops?


‘Whatever you do, don’t call them snowflakes,’ Caroline said the last time I spoke to Oxford students. ‘That’s not a grown-up way of conducting a political debate. It’s like calling you a gammon.’
She’s right, of course, but by God they make it hard. This week we learned that the Oxford University students’ union is planning to elect a ‘consultancy’ of ‘sensitivity readers’ to scrutinise articles in student newspapers before publication to make sure they won’t offend anyone. If the union has its way, the editor of
Cherwell, one of Oxford’s oldest student publications, won’t have final say over what’s published in the weekly paper. Once he’s signed off on something, he’ll have to forward it to this conclave of moral guardians, much as theatre producers once had to send new plays to be vetted by the Lord Chamberlain. (Incidentally, my use of ‘he’ in that sentence probably wouldn’t pass muster with these student censors.) ....

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