Posted on 09/06/2014 12:06:45 PM PDT by jazusamo
Wake Forest University kicked off the fall 2014 semester by instituting a campus-wide online system that has the potential to restrict free speech by allowing students and staff to anonymously file reports on any occurrences they deem biased or hateful.
Known as the Bias Incident Report system , the online form does not specify the criteria for filing a report, nor does it explicitly define the word “bias.” Instead, students are pressured to submit a report anytime they believe they are encountering an incident of hate or bias — potentially opening the floodgates for students to report incidents without cause.
The report form lists a bevy of reasons an incident could be perceived as biased, some of which include: citizenship, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, religion, sexual orientation and economic background. The form even offers an option to upload a video, photos or audio of the occurrence.
The guidelines as to what “bias” relies heavily on student emotion — when a student feels at all offended by someone’s differing political or religious ideologies, a file is reported and is required to be officially investigated by university officials. (RELATED: Dartmouth Student Who Spoke ‘Mock Chinese’ Remains On The Lam)
Once a student or faculty member files a complaint, the report is sent to a group of school bureaucrats who call themselves “The Bias Incident Review Group.” The dean of students, Adam Goldstein, and assistant provost for diversity and inclusion, Barbee Oakes, head the league of paper-pushing justice seekers.
“Upon review of each incident, the group will assemble a team to support individuals involved and help take steps toward resolution,” Wake Forest said in an email to the student body, which is now posted on the school website. ”These steps may include strategies for addressing environmental factors that would reduce the likelihood of future incidents.”
Though the report system was launched at the start of the school year, the school admitted on its website that none of the members of the review group are officially trained to decipher what constitutes acts of bias and hate. The North Carolina university has also not released any information on how the incidents will be evaluated.
Regardless of the potentially harmful state of this system, when the Bias Incident Review Group reaches a verdict, Wake Forest can use the decision to enforce campus-wide policies based solely on the decision of the untrained, newly formed group.
No way they are going to get thousands of bogus “reports.”
Nahh...
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so, Conservatives, whites and Christians need to flood this system with the Left’s hate and bios.
And be sure to include everybody on the Nazi Freedom killer committees in the complaints of bias an hate.
I think that's called "fighting fire with fire."
Red Adair did it...and it worked for the planet's biggest fires: off/onshore platforms...DAMNED dangerous. He's passed now but WHAT a legacy HE left.
North Korea comes to campus
Let them screw themselves into oblivion. The good colleges do not do stuff like this.
“Overwhelm the system” with reports of Liberal perfessers spreading hate.
exactly.
for example, professors wearing commie glasses, dressing in sandals, wearing boho clothing, listening to alternative music, I could go on. All prejudiced against conservatives.
Yep, asst. provost Barbee, what an appropriate name for the PC head.
Hit them back. Report everything they say as “offensive.”
could be perceived as biased, some of which include: ... pregnancy, ... -—
I’m a male, and I’m perceived as not able to get pregnant.
I’m offended (make that off-ended??).
The number of “incidents” is going to skyrocket. And of course the universities will step up indoctrination/grooming efforts to stamp out dissent (whether real or imagined).
I’m a tomatoan....I’m deeply offended that ketchup is offered on campus long with chili, spaghetti, lasagna, and salads that contain dices or sliced tomato’s...I also contend is if a religious violation to force tomato’s to marry the vile product Bacon in the form of the micro aggressive BLT sandwiches sold in the cafeteria, and I demand an immediate ban on all tomato products on campus...
“I swear I saw someone turn their nose up at a Pepsi and choose a Dr. Pepper! That was biased!”
“Instead, students are pressured to submit a report anytime they believe they are encountering an incident of hate or bias”
Man I would be screwed! I hate assholes. I hate abusers, of women, children, animals.. I hate communist/socialist that seek to destroy America. I hate bullies. I am biased to Christians, Americans, Veterans, Patriots and others. Have a feeling my name would be at the top of the reporting list... Then again I would never go to any school that had such and Un-American policy....
So, will the Jewish students be able to complain (and be listened to) about abusive demonstrations by pro-Pali groups? Will it be possible for whites to be offended by racist Black demonstrations or publications?
Why do I bother to ask?
How about a toughen up and stand on your own two feet initiative. Or would that be too 20th century?
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