Posted on 11/17/2015 9:14:16 AM PST by Kaslin
Now that the adults have cleared out of their prestigious presidencies and chancellorships at the University of Missouri, the Thought Police are coming out everywhere on campus in full array, complete with fancy titles, academic regalia and the usual meaningless catchphrases of the day.
For example, Mizzou is getting its first vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity, whatever those words now mean. This much is clear: They don't mean what they ostensibly say. Nor for anyone of a conservative bent who hasn't yet learned to keep his mouth shut and go along with exclusion, conformity and anything but a fair hearing.
The calendar may say it's 2015, but it might as well be 1984, and Big Brother is watching. It was called thought reform during Red China's great Cultural Revolution. Here it's being officially hailed as a "culture of civility" by the University of Missouri's board of trustees. Doublespeak is here again.
Meanwhile, you may add another name to the list of distinguished disinvitees to one American campus after another: A student group at Williams College, which charges its students $63,000 a year in tuition and fees for this kind of "education," had the temerity to inaugurate an Uncomfortable Learning Speaker Series -- but when word got out that a conservative writer, Suzanne Venker, was supposed to participate, a mob of "students" demanded that she be blacklisted. She promptly was, for the board folded like a blanket.
Venker now joins the long list of those luminaries whose ideas aren't welcome on still another American campus -- from Ayaan Hirsi Ali to George Will.
The news gets immeasurably, or rather measurably, worse. The William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale, which has the duty of keeping up with the erosion, if not complete collapse, of freedom of speech at American colleges and universities, reports that, by a margin of 51 to 36 percent, today's college students favor speech codes in order to determine what may be said or not said at our universities.
When the very places in a society that are supposed to be centers of free inquiry and robust debate become just robotic repeaters of the party line, what hope is there for once free society?
And yet somewhere, somehow, somebody -- some Winston Smith -- must still think for himself or even stand up against the mob and declare: The First Amendment is the only speech code this once free country needs.
[vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity] == [vice chancellor for getting rid of whitey but not his money]
Countries that don’t allow different opinions eventually stuff people in boxcars.
‘Speech codes’ ‘political correctness’ are simply way to deflect questions.
On, perfect. Just was universities need: Another layer of administrators. I wonder what the correlation is between added administrators and college tuition rates.
“Civility” is just another tool of censorship.
And if they don’t get passing grades for classes they’ve never attended, that would be racist too.
This is the perfect opportunity for Conservatives. “The Safe University and Inclusiveness” bill.
Any university which chooses to restrict freedom of speech from its campus must list the university as a Safe University. This university will not be eligible for federal funding and will be treated as a private university.
Force Democrats to go on record.
I bet that requires a PhD in either a grievance studies field or in newspeak gobbledygook, with a minor concentration in the other.
It’s also called Office of Equity and Diversity.
It’s to the point where even fully liberal Democrat faculty and administrators are scared and watching what they may say off the cuff for fear of being brought under investigation and potentially fired.
Sanctuary Universities.
Let’s see how that all works out.
Speech codes are inherently totalitarian. The people who promote tehm are totalitarians.
Did I just violate the speech code?
Used to be: “I might not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
Now it’: “I might not agree with what you say, but I’ll beat you to death over your right to say it.”
This would require a little backbone. All business should declare a moratorium on hiring any new college graduates.
The word civility is yet another that has fallen to Marxist corruption of the language.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.