Professor will flunk students who refer to students as ‘male’ or ‘female’

LifeSiteNews ^ | 8/31815 | Lisa Bourne

[wagglebee]

August 31, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Multiple professors at one college are using their positions of authority to regulate their students’ speech, threatening to flunk or even expel young people from class if they use certain offending phrases in class – like “referring to women/men as females or males.”

Gender and homosexuality politics are among the areas the professors are looking to influence the young people in their classes, along with race and immigration ideology.

The affronting terms that could land students in hot water in a number of Washington State University classes include “illegal alien” and “illegals,” CampusReform.org reports, but also considered oppressive and hateful by one teacher are the very definitions of gender, “male” and “female.”

The syllabus for Selena Lester Breikss’ “Women & Popular Culture” class says:

Gross generalizations, stereotypes, and derogatory/oppressive language are not acceptable. Use of racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, classist, or generally offensive language in class or submission of such material will not be tolerated. (This includes “The Man,” “Colored People,” “Illegals/Illegal Aliens,” “Tranny” and so on - or referring to women/men as females or males.)

Students in Breikss’ class could be kicked out or flunked if do not comply with her edict on “oppressive” language.

“If I see it or hear it, I will correct it in class since it can be a learning moment for many students,” Breikss states in the syllabus. “Repeated use of oppressive and hateful language will be handled accordingly – including but not limited to removal from the class without attendance or participation points, failure of the assignment, and - in extreme cases - failure for the semester.”

White students in another Washington State class will also be penalized if they do not “defer” to their non-white peers.

And in another, they will have their grade lowered one point for each use of the terms “illegal aliens” and “illegals.”

In Michael Johnson Jr.’s “Race and Racism in U.S. Popular Culture” class students are required to “acknowledge” existence of various oppressions, including “heterosexism.”

The effort on the part of faculty or other leadership on college campuses to curb traditional and Christian attitudes in favor of political correctness is not a new phenomenon.

A Marquette University student was prohibited from articulating his Biblical view of marriage last year, and a tenured professor was fired from there last year as well for voicing his view in support of marriage.

Johns Hopkins University denied a pro-life student organization recognition in 2013 until threatened with legal action.

Religious freedom banners were prohibited at Sinclair College in Ohio a year earlier.

A lawsuit was filed against Los Angeles Community College District in 2009 after a professor censored and threatened to expel a student who had given a speech on marriage and his Christian faith in a public speaking class. The professor had also told his class they were a “fascist (explicative)” if they voted for California’s Proposition 8 in defense of marriage.

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[Mama Shawna]

The President of WSU issued this statement yesterday, after pushback from the community:

PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University deeply values the tenets of freedom of expression for every member of our community, including all students, faculty and staff. Those First Amendment rights are reinforced in our policies, procedures and practices. Open dialogue, vigorous debate and the free exchange of ideas, as well as the language used to convey these ideas, are at the core of who we are as a higher education institution. Over the weekend, we became aware that some faculty members, in the interest of fostering a constructive climate for discussion, included language in class syllabi that has been interpreted as abridging students’ free speech rights. We are working with these faculty members to clarify, and in some cases modify, course policies to ensure that students’ free speech rights are recognized and protected. No student will have points docked merely as a result of using terms that may be deemed offensive to some. Blanket restriction of the use of certain terms is not consistent with the values upon which this university is founded. Free speech and a constructive climate for learning are not incompatible. We aim to cultivate diversity of expression while protecting individual rights and safety. To this end, we are asking all faculty members to take a moment to review their course policies to ensure that students’ right to freedom of expression is protected along with a safe and productive learning environment.

Here's the link: https://news.wsu.edu/2015/08/31/public-statement-from-wsu-regarding-syllabi-issue/#.VeWuSpcppf2

[moehoward]

"Professor will flunk students who refer to students as ‘male’ or ‘female’ "

Now known as "pimp" or "ho" respectively.

[PGR88]

As George Orwell said - some ideas are just so stupid, only an academic can believe them.

[Huskrrrr]

The school mascot is a cougar:

slang- “a woman who seeks sexual relations with considerably younger men”

[drypowder]

TRUTH: verbiage that corresponds with the reality of what is.

[joemsewi]

If a teacher or professor wants 15 minutes of fame they only have to publicize their moronic classroom rules and all of a sudden they become famous on the national stage. We never hear how many students are in the class. It could only be a handful and probably only students that already agree with this teachers viewpoint. The teacher is only preaching to a small gathering of like minded lemmings and would be an insignificant player if her proclamations were not played up in the media.

The bad teachers have to spout outrageous ideas in and out of the classroom in order to get the attention that they seek. Unfortunately the media helps them along.

[g.orwell]

Maybe, just maybe if more of these "professors" are prosecuted it will stop the rest of them from feeling free to make up there own rules. But this IS in Washington state so.....

[g.orwell]

End tenure and these prof will not feel like they rule.

[verga]

End tenure and these prof will not feel like they rule.

Tenure was originally designed and created to insure the freedom of expression and free unbridled exchange of ideas. Sadly once some of the moon bats came into power they used that power to suppress those very ideas. Those demanding tolerance became intolerant.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Suz in AZ]

So if a student refers to just themselves as make our female, they will be failed?

[MrB]

We shoulda stopped ‘em at the dinner roll...
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2404649/posts)

Every bit of “tolerance” for leftist freaks just invites them to demand more.
Stand in the gap and shout “no!”.

[bgill]

Isn’t that where the usurper’s mama supposedly went to school? If so, they haven’t changed their ideology over the years.

[jmcenanly]

The problem with this is that it will creep from the philosophy department down to other areas, possibly even hydraulic engineering. If this becomes the case,neither their theories nor their pipes will hold water.

[TheOldLady]

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