I think this sort of thing is overstated to provoke political outrage and distract from the real socio-economic disaster unfolding in higher education. It's certainly one minor symptom, but only a small example of how we've lost our way on a much grander scale.

> It is easy when you work at a university to roll your eyes at this sort of thing and play along.

But that's not what happens. You roll your eyes, smile and then blatantly and insubordinately forget about it. No one ever follows up. No one cares, except that one over-worked bullshit compliance officer whose softly-worded "advisories" get tactically directed to spam.

Most people are already sensitive enough to teach incorporating a rich cultural history and awareness of "colonial values" (expeciallin maths which is practically a history of India, Persia and China), since it is precisely the bad sides of those values that are harming our own institutions today.

People in British universities have more important stuff on their plate at the moment, like dealing with a massive crisis in student disaffection, debt, and mental health problems, lecturer strike action, recruitment problems...