Oxford University to replace 'male, pale and stale' image with gay, female and black icons

The Telegraph ^ | July 03, 2016 | Javier Espinoza

[Trump20162020]

Oxford University is replacing portraits of famous men with gay, female and black icons to counter its 'male, pale and stale' image, it has emerged.

Earlier this year David Cameron, the Prime Minister, led calls for the university to take more ethnic minority students as figures revealed Oxford had only taken 27 black undergraduate students in 2014.

It followed calls from the Rhodes Must Fall movement to ‘decolonise’ the university’s curriculum.

[gigster]

I think Cameron is a conforming limey twit, content with seeing the destruction of a once-great nation.

[bgill]

Oxford had only taken 27 black undergraduate students in 2014.

IOW, only 27 applied. Sorry, throwing numbers out there is meaningless without something to back them up. I once applied and got a job with the state only to be told sorry, wrong skin pigment. That job remained posted for years and years because not one black person applied.

[Enchante]

Naomi Wolf???? They ought to burn the place down before the honor a painting of that demented charlatan.

[Ketill Frostbeard]

Oxford has had a gay reputation for a long time anyhow.

[Senator_Blutarski]

There is clearly nothing to be learned from dead white guys like Einstein, Plato, Newton, Descartes, Shakespeare or Hemingway.

These folks should be sent to Somalia to live and study among the truly gifted scholars of our current era.

[bray]

So they are racist against whites.

Pray America wakes

[Verginius Rufus]

Isaac Newton went to Cambridge University. But Oxford produced more than its share of great minds—Robert Boyle, for example. Back in the day when people weren’t obsessed with skin color or gender identity but only about whether one was a member of the Church of England.

[Verginius Rufus]

Isaac Newton went to Cambridge University. But Oxford produced more than its share of great minds—Robert Boyle, for example. Back in the day when people weren’t obsessed with skin color or gender identity but only about whether one was a member of the Church of England.

[ClearCase_guy]

Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Get up on this!
Ow! Baby!
Salt and Pepa’s here!
(Now wait a minute, y’all
This dance ain’t for everybody
Only the sexy people
So all you fly mothers, get on out there and dance
Dance, I said!)

[RockyTx]

Republicans should counter with..
how many people are allowed to see
the fake-Brunette without makeup?

[17th Miss Regt]

This is how you get people to want to forget history.

And thus get stupider.

And thus be ready for enslavement.

[17th Miss Regt]

That job remained posted for years and years because not one black person applied.

That was long before you realized that if you identified as black, it counts as being black, right?

[ABN 505]

Is that a sonnet from Shakespeare? Amazing.