Oh the OUCA members back in the day used to be avid supporters of Northern Ireland terrorists. They just supported the protestant gangs who started the troubles by terrorizing the Catholic population rather than the IRA. It was quite common for OUCA members to wear pins supporting the UVF which killed an elderly Protestant widow in a petrol bombing back in 1966, long before the Provisional IRA was formed. They didn’t murder quite as many people as the IRA but they were terrorists by any definition.
The British troops were actually sent in to the province to protect the Catholics from the loyalist terrorists.
But the relevant institution here isn’t Oxford or public school (both of which I attended), its OUCA, an institution formed for the express purpose of perpetuating class war on the poor and underprivileged.
To understand OUCA you have to enter into a Nietzschean mindset in which the world is divided into the oppressors and the oppressed. One must side with the first or become the second. It is a world in which no change to the established social order can be comprehended. Anyone who proposes such must ipso facto be a naive unrealistic dreamer.
Those who are born on top will remain but that does not mean that advancement is denied to those unfortunate enough to come from the lower orders. They cannot of course expect to ever fully join the elite but they can rise above the members of the underclass.
For the OUCA member, George Orwell’s model is not exactly wrong, it is incomplete. The future is a boot stamping on a human face forever but there is the foot inside the boot and there is the voice that gives the order. For the parvenu, the social climber, OUCA’s message is this: We will give you the boot and tell you where to stomp.
