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Barnard bans dorm room door decorations after lawsuit claims rampant antisemitism, aims to stop ‘isolating different views’
New York Post ^ | Feb. 26, 2024 | Ronny Reyes and Reuven Fenton

Posted on 02/26/2024 2:56:00 PM PST by nickcarraway

Barnard College has mandated that students remove any and all decorations featuring messages from their dorm rooms as a way to avoid “isolating those who have different views and beliefs” — just days after it was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of allowing antisemitism to run rampant.

Students at the New York City campus have until Wednesday to remove dry-erase boards, decorations, or messaging affixed to their doors, according to a letter sent out on Friday by Barnard College Dean Leslie Grinage and obtained by The Post. “While many decorations and fixtures on doors serve as a means of helpful communication amongst peers, we are also aware that some may have the unintended effect of isolating those who have different views and beliefs,” Grinage wrote.

“The goal is to be as clear as possible about the guardrails, and, meeting the current moment, do what we can to support and foster the respect, empathy and kindness that must guide all of our behavior on campus,” she added.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donatefreerepublic; jimknows; weknow

1 posted on 02/26/2024 2:56:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Stop communicating immediately!

(If this doesn’t qualify as hate speech, I guess id better check the latest rules.)


2 posted on 02/26/2024 3:02:11 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: nickcarraway

Such a far cry from places like this we had in college. I guess it may still be “a thing”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Expression_Tunnel


3 posted on 02/26/2024 3:05:14 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: nickcarraway

so when exactly do these snowflakes get to learn how to deal with the real world ?


4 posted on 02/26/2024 3:17:57 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: nickcarraway

Looks like Hewitt Hall.


5 posted on 02/26/2024 3:23:17 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: nickcarraway

“”Barnard College has mandated that students remove any and all decorations featuring messages from their dorm rooms as a way to avoid “isolating those who have different views and beliefs” “”

Soooo, everyone is isolated to a single “official” view and belief?

Or are they isolated to no views and beliefs?

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First Amendment Leslie, if someone does not like it they don’t have to read it.

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6 posted on 02/26/2024 3:29:50 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: nickcarraway

The aggrieved group is all for free speech until it comes to antisemitism and celebrating Christmas.


7 posted on 02/26/2024 3:37:08 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t worry snowflakes. You and your professors will still be able to post your Che Guevara, Viva Fidel posters.

I’ll never forget some university snowflake needing her safe space after some wrote Trump with sidewalk chalk. I believe after college she could not even get a job as a Walmart Greeter.


8 posted on 02/26/2024 3:37:14 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: nickcarraway

My girlfriend (now my wife of 50+ years) and I would walk the halls at OU after hours back in the early 1970’s. The Black Student Union had a poster on their closed door with the standard “Free Huey Newton” message.

Being an engineer, I aways had a pencil in my pocket. On the margin of the poster, I wrote: Prunes will set him free! I wrote it lightly so they could easily erase it, but they didn’t. It was there at least for a week.


9 posted on 02/26/2024 3:37:41 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: nickcarraway

Instead of punishing the wrongdoers, idiots just ban everyone from doing everything. They won’t be happy until we are all living in a bland a colorless world where we will all be victims of the state.


10 posted on 02/26/2024 3:52:58 PM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: vpintheak

They only know two solutions to anything ban or mandate.


11 posted on 02/26/2024 4:12:55 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: MV=PY

I would want to know who hates me and would want it to stay up


12 posted on 02/26/2024 4:26:33 PM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: TLI

My Grandmother was, Class of 1901, Barnard.


13 posted on 02/26/2024 5:16:52 PM PST by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: nickcarraway

Everytime I see this post I read the title as “Barnyard bans …”


14 posted on 02/26/2024 6:31:13 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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To: nickcarraway

An admission that these colleges can’t or won’t control their violent terrorist supporters and Muslim invaders.


15 posted on 02/26/2024 11:42:40 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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