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The University of California’s Insane Speech Police
Daily Beast ^ | Jun 22, 2015 | Robby Soave

Posted on 06/23/2015 8:44:05 AM PDT by Ray76

Fifty years after the birth of the free speech movement at the University of California, Berkeley, officials across the UC system are encouraging faculty and students to purge mundane, potentially offensive words and phrases from their vocabularies.

Administrators want members of campus to avoid the use of racist and sexist statements, though their notions about what kinds of statements qualify are completely bonkers. “America is a melting pot,” “Why are you so quiet?” and “I believe the most qualified person should get the job,” are all phrases that should raise red flags, according to the UC speech police.

Requests for faculty to quit perpetrating these teensiest of microaggressions are thankfully just that—requests—although the fact that they come straight from the desk of UC President Janet Napolitano lends them some muscle.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: education; highereducation; leftismoncampus; luniticsandmorons; speechcodes; stasi; ucla
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1 posted on 06/23/2015 8:44:05 AM PDT by Ray76
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To: Ray76

The Marxists have taken over most of the education in this nation from pre-school to grad school. Its been a long time goal of theirs and it appears they are succeeding. God save the Republic.


2 posted on 06/23/2015 8:46:31 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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“America is a melting pot,” “Why are you so quiet?” and “I believe the most qualified person should get the job

HELLO???


3 posted on 06/23/2015 8:46:48 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Ray76

One day in the future these fools of diversity, tolerance and inclusion living in the world of political correctness will have to defend themselves from those they so vehemently protected. It won’t be pretty and the ones that attack them won’t even know what they did.


4 posted on 06/23/2015 8:47:52 AM PDT by Gaffer
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If I had to raise my kids over again, they would NEVER set foot on a government campus. NEVER. Thank God I was able to get them through school before it got this bad.


5 posted on 06/23/2015 8:51:00 AM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: Ray76

Too bad the sheep in college don’t stand up on their hind legs and demand freedom.


6 posted on 06/23/2015 8:52:44 AM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: Don Corleone

There really can be joy in fiddling while Rome burns.

I’ve been embracing it for a while now. :-)


7 posted on 06/23/2015 8:53:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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The new “State Religion” is Political Correctness.

No established Religion is protected and most are under assault by this “State Religion”

When seeking answers to societal ills, such as the racism that fueled the murders in S. Carolina, the State is quick to jump on a flag as the motivation, when it is actually the Godlessness of the culture.

When trying to determine right from wrong the State demands we not refer to Religious teachings, but rather the State mandated Political Correctness.


8 posted on 06/23/2015 8:54:03 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: Gaffer

Reminds me of the joke about the woman that takes in and cares for the snake until it bites her. Then she is totally shocked as she lay dying! “B**ch, you knew I was a snake.”


9 posted on 06/23/2015 8:54:28 AM PDT by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Insane.

Don’t assimilate. The most qualified should not get the job.

Lunatics are in charge.


10 posted on 06/23/2015 8:54:50 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: envisio

liberals try to impress their emotions, whatever intelligence they have, and feelings on the lesser of the world. To them, because they themselves ‘feel’ something it must automatically mean the reverse is true. It never occurs to them an animal has no feelings. It’s actually quite delusional.


11 posted on 06/23/2015 8:57:13 AM PDT by Gaffer
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This is something the students should revolt against.

12 posted on 06/23/2015 8:58:46 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: vpintheak
Too bad the sheep in college don’t stand up on their hind legs

At elite colleges, the sheep got where they are by superior ability to discover what "they" want, and then to provide it.

They are the least well-educated group in America - but their test scores are AMAZING.

13 posted on 06/23/2015 9:01:37 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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Rumor has it that a recent addition to Bezerkley's lexicon of hateful "microagressions" is "all lives matter".The Dean of either Smith College or Hampshire College in Massachusetts (can't recall which one) found *that* out a few months ago.

BTW,in case you've never heard of them they're both *very* exclusive and *proudly* Marxist schools.

Is there any other kind in Massachusetts?

14 posted on 06/23/2015 9:02:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Feelings Are Today's Truth,Truth Is Today's Blasphemy)
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What needs to be understood, is that there is a Compulsion For Uniformity in modern Communists, Nazis & their cousins among those whom we mistakenly have been calling "Liberals." It is very intense, driven by the hatred & fear of reality.
15 posted on 06/23/2015 9:03:33 AM PDT by Ohioan
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well...berkely is Just Across the Bay from S.F. where theyre now implementing,,,,,




16 posted on 06/23/2015 9:09:28 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: cuban leaf

Better to denounce it. Start a petition against Janet Napolitano for her UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES. Whrn a few of these big mouth, big money nutjobs are brought down, there is bound to be a faltering of their agenda. As long as they are tolerated, they win and win bigtime!


17 posted on 06/23/2015 9:13:26 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Ray76

These guys are trying to run our country into the ground by brainwashing our children! I hate these liberal Marxist thugs that’s running our schools now!


18 posted on 06/23/2015 9:25:01 AM PDT by ForAmerica (Texas Conservative Christian *born again believer in Jesus Christ* Black Man!)
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To: Ray76

bfl


19 posted on 06/23/2015 9:36:45 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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What happens to people who speak offensively and make racially and culturally insensitive statements? Will they have their tongues cut out?

WHAT AM I SAYING! Those fools will actually do it!

20 posted on 06/23/2015 10:00:00 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("Inside every 'Liberal' is a totalitarian screaming to get out!")
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