Modern universities are where critical thinking goes to be flogged, strangled, poisoned, bludgeoned and then lit on fire

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Should we even bother sending our children to university these days? Certainly not to any arts departments, where the many ideas and research being produced are beyond parody.

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Take these lines, from the opening of a master’s thesis recently accepted by the University of Toronto, for instance: “I also wrote this paper for myself, because I needed an explanation for my own existence. It became a method of explaining why I don’t exist yet,” wrote Narisa Vickers.

Moving on from the author’s existential crisis, Vickers’ thesis is titled, “Female Dopers, Gender Fraudulences, and Racialized Bodies: The Misgendering of Imane Khelif.”

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Vickers describes her work as “grounded in Black transgender feminist theory and decolonial queer of colour critique,” in its examination of “online reactions to Khelif as a case study shaped by histories of transphobia and colonialism in North America and Algeria.”

In plain English, this is a master’s thesis about how allegedly mean, transphobic, colonialist and even “violent” individuals on the internet were in reaction to Algerian boxer

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