The bank claims that the decision to close the former UKIP leader’s account had nothing to do with his political views, but Farage believes their 40-page report says otherwise.
King Lawal had replied to a tweet thread by Anglican commentator and broadcaster Calvin Robinson, who expressed concern about the sexualized nature of Pride events, at which children are often present.
The retraction has proven as—or more—effective in not only spreading the findings of the study but proving that those who would cancel others are often the ones who are unethical and unscientific.
Farage claims to have been rejected for an account at seven different banks in the UK after his decades-old account was shut down, seemingly without reason as the trend of “de-banking” of right-wing figures becomes more and more common.
For the researcher, the explanation for the Sorbonne’s attitude is to be found in a generalised resignation of the academic world in the face of cancel culture and Islam.
It is not activists’ sincere belief in the harm caused by ‘wrong words’ that is the problem, but their ill-founded hubris—their self-assumed role of holy avengers bringing the world to the ‘right side of history.’
