Margaret Thatcher has been likened to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin at a UK university.
In a “principles of management” lecture at the University of Leicester, business students were told that the trailblazer Prime Minister shared the same leadership style as the pair of dictators.
Elsewhere, images from a presentation see Donald Trump and Elon Musk branded “terrorist leaders” – in the same category as Osama Bin Laden, mass murderer Elliot Rodger, and again President Putin.
“The terrorist leader engages in unlawful threats, violence or bullying to inculcate fear intended to coerce or intimidate followers and opponents into submission,” a slide says.
The supposed “terrorists” are also compared to Marvel comic book supervillain Erik Killmonger.
Students are told how Baroness Thatcher was “autocratic” under the philosophy of 20th-century psychologist Kurt Lewin.
Lewin defined “autocratic” to mean staying out of work decisions unless asked, steering clear of assigning tasks, and only rarely giving praise.
This, a university presentation said, brought her into the same bracket as Hitler and Mr Putin – as well as military commanders and factory supervisors.
Just last year, the former Prime Minister was characterised as a “contemporary villain” alongside – again – Hitler and Bin Laden by London’s V&A Museum.
Margaret Thatcher was likened to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin at a University of Leicester lecture – while Donald Trump was put in the same category as Osama Bin Laden
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Responding to the lecture, former Conservative Education Secretary Sir Gavin Williamson told GB News: “It is completely out of order and a shocking comparison.
“Margaret Thatcher has been one of our greatest leaders and it is shocking that this lecturer has said this and should immediately withdraw the remarks and apologise.”
Meanwhile, a Tory source added: “As if Labour destroying the graduate job market wasn’t enough, students have to cope with woke tutors teaching them total, shameful rubbish.
“That Margaret Thatcher, who fought for freedom across Europe, should be compared to a mass-murdering dictator is just crassly offensive.”
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Just last month, a report from the same university labelled the British countryside “overwhelmingly white” and slated it for not having enough halal food options.
A review on “rural racism” from Leicester’s “Centre for Hate Studies” laid into various “challenges” faced by those from ethnic minority backgrounds in the countryside.
While in 2022, the university was forced to vow it “does not condone any form of defacement” after one of its staff hurled an egg at a 20-foot bronze statue of Mrs Thatcher in Grantham – for which he was later fined £90.
Earlier this year, Professor Dennis Hayes, the director of free speech campaign group Academics For Academic Freedom, issued a dire warning about the state of Britain’s higher education sector.
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