Elite institutions are dragging Britons into the culture war one micro-aggression at a time The University of Cambridge is the latest to show its intent to make us all hate each other as much as possible 26 May 2021 • 1:15pm Defenders of so-called wokeness claim to be representing the most marginalised and oppressed minority groups. Yet all of the most extreme woke ideas come from elite institutions at the top of society. The latest example is the University of Cambridge, which set up a website encouraging students to report their tutors for committing "micro-aggressions". These are generally defined as behavioural or verbal slights – whether intentional or not – which amount to a form of subtle, everyday racism or bigotry. The website warned that academics could be committing a micro-aggression if they give backhanded compliments, raise their eyebrows when a black student or staff member is speaking, or refer to a woman as a girl. Some professors were rightly outraged, accusing the university of creating a "police state" and stifling their right to free speech. Since the backlash, the website has been taken offline.