乱用d because she is a Tory: Cambridge student 明らかにする／漏らすs she has been branded 'immoral' by peers over her political beliefs

  • A young Tory at Cambridge has complained of 存在 called 'immoral' by peers?
  • Phoebe Pickering, 19, said young Tories were 絶えず the butt of jokes
  • She said she's learned to ‘keep her mouth shut’ when asked about her opinions

By ELEANOR HARDING FOR THE DAILY MAIL

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Cambridge student Phoebe Pickering, 19, said young Tories were constantly the butt of jokes and branded ‘immoral’ ? causing many to censor themselves in their daily lives

Cambridge student Phoebe Pickering, 19, said young Tories were 絶えず the butt of jokes and branded ‘immoral’ ? 原因（となる）ing many to censor themselves in their daily lives

?A 保守的な student at Cambridge has spoken out about the ‘dirty looks’ and 乱用 she has had from her peers because of her political beliefs.

Phoebe Pickering, 19, said young Tories were 絶えず the butt of jokes and branded ‘immoral’ ? 原因（となる）ing many to censor themselves in their daily lives.

She said she had learned to ‘keep her mouth shut’ when asked about her political opinions by friends because she did not want to have to を取り引きする the （激しい）反発.

令状ing in the student newspaper Varsity, she 警告するd that Tory students were 存在 demonised for their 見解（をとる）s and branded ‘bad people’.

行方不明になる Pickering wrote: ‘Maybe that would explain how, にもかかわらず 存在 very 利益／興味d in politics, whenever this topic of conversation comes up, I pray that nobody will ask my opinion, look to the 床に打ち倒す and keep my mouth shut.

‘Maybe that would 供給する a better explanation as to why I feel it necessary if I have confes sed my 見解（をとる）s to follow it up すぐに with quick-解雇する／砲火／射撃 justifications as to why I’m not a bad person.

‘It really shouldn’t be this way that people take such a 薄暗い 見解（をとる） of humanity as to label most 投票者s in the UK as bad people.

‘A phrase that comes to mind is: “Look at a man like he’s the Devil and you’ll never understand his motiv es.”

‘It is so much easier to label someone as evil than to rebut their arguments.’ 行方不明になる Pickering 達成するd three A*s at A-level at Brighton College にもかかわらず 戦う／戦いing with 癌 during her 熟考する／考慮するs and having to take a year off school.

Her article comes まっただ中に growing 恐れるs that 解放する／自由な speech is 存在 stifled at universities by left-wingers who will not 許す any opinions to be 空気／公表するd but their own. This 危険s creating ‘echo 議会s’ in which anyone with 権利-leaning 見解（をとる）s is made to feel unwelcome.

行方不明になる Pickering, a first-year undergraduate from Brighton, said the problem was not 限定するd to her university.

She wrote: ‘I have learnt over the years that it is just not 価値（がある） it to 許す my political leanings to slip into conversation any more.

The Conservative student at Cambridge has spoken out about the ‘dirty looks’ and abuse she has had from her peers because of her political beliefs

The 保守的な student at Cambridge has spoken out about the ‘dirty looks’ and 乱用 she has had from her peers because of her political beliefs

‘I’ve been asked questions such as “I know you’re a nice person and all but how could you feel okay with yourself 投票（する）ing 保守的な?” and “How do you sleep at night knowing that you 投票（する）d for 緊縮?” I’ve had people shouting at me and throwing me dirty looks for supporting the Leave （選挙などの）運動をする.’

The philosophy student at Corpus Christi College said she had heard that 保守的な student 選挙運動者s we re 存在 given the 冷淡な shoulder by peers. One student canvasser 直面するd ‘real 乱用 and social ostracism’ in the runup to the 総選挙 this year for putting ちらしs in pigeonholes.

‘That would never happen to a 労働 選挙運動者 in Cambridge,’ 行方不明になる Pickering said. ‘To create this sort of censorial 環境 is to create a real danger of a stagnating and even 拒絶する／低下するing society.’

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