Congratulations Arsalan Motavali – 2017 Winner Of The Kid Creole Memorial Trophy For Stool Pigeon Of The Year

3 May, 2018

Okay, anyone with two braincells can see why he did it – the language was beyond evil in places (for those whom have saw copies of the racist tweets all over the place, for those who have not, here’s the evidence from the man himself).

Before anyone else suggests it, he’s not involved in any suspicious groups using racism as kindling to push their own agendas, but a genuine fed up student in a university that’s long had a reputation as a safe haven for white bigots (the south west being very traditionalist Tory country).

To give balance however, the very question of racism there was asked at The Student Room back in January and this was the response from students.

But was this the best way to solve it? What ever happened to taking it to the university authorities first?

Arsalan Motavali posted the offending material online first before going to the university authorities in order to force their hand. Job done, yes, but the result is mortifying publicity the University of Exeter can ill afford.

Racism, sexism, bigotry in all shapes and sizes (there’s another one – sizeism) exists in every British university and college – as you would expect when you bring together people from all over the world from different backgrounds. It is also dealt with by every British university and college – contrary to the crap from those whining creeps at The Guardian (where else?).

Name one UK tertiary education establishment which doesn’t have an extensive anti-racism and anti-hate crime policy with an exhaustive list of contacts for students and staff to report incidents or concerns, and those independent bodies to approach if they are unhappy with how the matter is being treated?

Of course you can’t. It is part of their legal duty as an employer and as an education provider to have these in place.

Arsalan Motavali is feeling rather pleased with himself. But these are the consequences of his handiwork:

1. Companies, governments and research establishments are not going to be rushing to offer any paid work for the various departments of the University of Exeter any time soon – which is where they make their money to provide the best facilities they can for students. Who wants it to be known they are getting their work done by bigots?

2. The best students – regardless of skin colour – will avoid it, and those graduating will find it tougher getting work regardless of degree or final award. Who wants to risk employing someone from the ‘racist university’ who might bring the business into disrepute?

3. Arsalan Motavali may find himself with a lot of fair weather friends with their own agendas, who will dump him once he’s run out of limelight.

4. His real friends and others may now think twice about having anything to do with someone happy enough to repost their messages on Twitter. A university is a much harder place to be if you don’t have friends around to confer and confide in – not merely for getting copies of notes from that lecture you missed yesterday.

5. When his turn to graduate comes, who is going to want to employ someone who deals with workplace issues in a manner more befitting an episode of Jeremy Kyle, leaving everyone feeling they’ll be walking on eggshells if he’s within the vicinity?

All which could have been avoided if he had at least tried the proper channels first – not used Twitter to gather a worldwide lynch mob army behind him en route to force his university into doing what he wanted. Even having won, how many will believe they did it because it was the right thing to do and not simply as the path of least resistence? No matter what the University of Exeter does now, they are damned.

Arsalan Motavali is now going to find out the hard way that despite his five minutes of Twitter fame, the world will soon be a smaller place for him than he thinks – because no-one likes a stool pigeon.

Apart from Kid Creole and the Coconuts.