tranarchist:

An essay by a prominent leftwing academic that examines the ethics of
socialist revolution has been targeted by a leading university using
the government’s counter-terrorism strategy.

Students at the University of Reading have been told to take care
when reading an essay by the late Professor Norman Geras, in order to
avoid falling foul of Prevent.

Third-year politics undergraduates have been warned not to access it
on personal devices, to read it only in a secure setting, and not to
leave it lying around where it might be spotted “inadvertently or
otherwise, by those who are not prepared to view it”. The alert came
after the text was flagged by the university as “sensitive” under the
Prevent programme.

The essay, listed as “essential” reading for the university’s Justice
and Injustice politics module last year, is titled Our Morals: The
Ethics of Revolution. Geras
was professor emeritus of government at the University of Manchester
until his death in 2013. He rejected terrorism but argued that violence
could be justified in the case of grave social injustices.

“This text was authored by a mainstream, prominent academic who was
well-regarded in his field, who was a professor at Manchester for many
years and whose obituary was published in the Guardian.
This case raises huge concerns about academic freedom and students’
access to material, and it raises wider questions about the impact of
Prevent.” The text was identified as potentially sensitive by an
academic convening the course. “This is almost worse because it means
academics are now engaging in self-censorship,” Tufail said.

The right shit their diapers over trigger warnings as “censorship”, meanwhile you can literally be put on a government watchlist for reading a mainstream socialist text

University alerts students to danger of leftwing essay