Leading academics at the prestigious university had slammed a website set up to report professors supposed wrongdoings, which could have included raising an eyebrow or turning their back.
Cambridge University has taken down a website letting students snitch on staff for "micro-aggressions." Students could report such trivial offenses as "raising an eyebrow," and activists have threatened to sue should it return. Cambridge's.
Cambridge dons raise free speech fears over new university website that allows students to anonymously report lecturers for micro-aggressions like turning their back or raising an eyebrow
Report and Support website was set-up by University of Cambridge but was removed just days later amid row
Deleted page intended to maintain safe, welcoming and inclusive community for all its staff and students
But Cambridge dons slammed the micro-aggressions reporting tool as a threat to traditions of free speech
Staff could have been reported for alleged offences such as raising an eyebrow or calling a woman a girl
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Cambridge removes website where dons can be reported for raising an eyebrow
Academics accused the university of trampling on free speech, saying the reporting system would foster a culture similar to a police state
24 May 2021 • 9:00pm
The website explained that micro-aggressions are everyday slights, indignities, put-downs and insults to which minority groups are subjected
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Cambridge University has taken down a website which said dons could be reported for raising an eyebrow at students.
It comes just days after The Telegraph exposed the university’s new anonymous reporting site which stated that academics could be committing a micro-aggression if they gave backhanded compliments, turned their backs on certain people or referred to a woman as a girl.