One, Two and Three...
One. Late last month some concern was expressed over the disproportionately small number of black professors in UK universities. The worry was that 'passive racism' or 'institutional racism' might be partly responsible for this state of affairs in higher education.
Two. However, people's minds have been put at rest by a communication from Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU). In this Hunt explained that it could not be so, since universities were implacably opposed to all forms of racism and had expressed their abhorrence of it.
Three. Only 'One' is true. 'Two' is false. Sally Hunt did not say this about the concerns over institutional racism possibly affecting the number of black professors in UK universities. That would have been too silly [pdf]. Everyone knows that the existence or non-existence of racism within an institution is not just about overt statements of opposition to or abhorrence of it; other attitudes, spoken and unspoken, and practices of an unjustifiably discriminatory or disadvantaging kind are also relevant. It's good that Sally Hunt knows this, representing as she does a trade union of people who certainly ought to know it. (Via.)