Posted on 02/11/2016 5:55:58 AM PST by HomerBohn
In just the latest instance of taxpayer-funded censorship, students in one University of Florida course have been banned from using words such as "husband," "wife," "mom," or dad" in the classroom and risk losing points off their grade if they don't comply.
In the syllabus for her "Creativity In Context" class -- a required course for any student pursuing a minor in Innovation -- UF professor Jennifer Lee informs students of her four paragraph long classroom "communications policy" that she says will enforce "ethical conduct" in the classroom.
"The following policies and guidelines will be followed in this course," the policy begins, followed by a bullet point instructing students to "Use inclusive language." The policy mandates that students "[s]peak in a way that does not make assumptions about others based on "norms", stereotypes, or one's own identity or experience."
The syllabus explains that this means replacing the words "boyfriend"/"girlfriend" with the more inclusive "partner" or "significant other." The rule applies to conversations about married couples too: saying "husband" or "wife" is forbidden. Even the words "mom" and "dad" have a more "inclusive" alternative -- students are told to use the word 'family" instead.
By using the new words, Lee explains, students will be using speech that "is inclusive of alternative orientations and family structures, and free of stereotypes."
Students are also required to comply with professor Lee's "safe education environment policy" -- distinct from her "communications policy" -- which warns students that "any behavior or language that makes others feel unsafe or unwelcome in this classroom can and will not be tolerated." Lee openly acknowledges that this no-tolerance policy covers "interrupting or ignoring others."
Lee's exhaustive policies aren't just meaningless words, either. She warns that "Students who do not meet conduct expectations will be given one warning by electronic mail, and continued behavior issues will result in the loss participation points per course instructor's discretion." She did not reply to The Daily Caller's request for comment
Ari Cohn, a lawyer with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) told TheDC that the policies are "likely to chill classroom discussion to the detriment of all." He went on to say that Lee's "inclusive language" policy presents "a veritable minefield through which students must tip-toe when they wish to participate in class. Faced with the possibility of a lower grade, students are likely to refrain from providing their input for fear that the professor or a classmate will be offended by something that they say, no matter how unreasonably."
1. If your college allows you to identify your sexual orientation, you are a homosexual. It allows you a raft of protections.
2. Then you say to the professor “Do you mean I would not be allowed to refer to my husband. Is it because I am gay?”
3. If she stands her ground, you report her as a Repressive.
“a required course for any student pursuing a minor in Innovation”
What exactly is a minor in “Innovation”?
What is that teenybopper doing “teaching” in one of our universities anyway?
“Creativity in Context.” Minor in “Innovation.”
These sound like the modern-day equivalents of Basket Weaving for scholarship athletes.
Anyone pursuing such a degree and registers for a course like this deserves whatever nonsense is required of him to pass.
We continue to let all these communist/liberal foreigners come in here that we educate and then turn them loose on our young skulls full of mush.
We are stupid.
“the purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression . . . but to make all other modes of thought impossible.
” Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meaning and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods.
“This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meaning whatever.”
— 1984, Orwell
Is this a situation where the expression, WTF, is even necessary?
Hey, Professor. This “C” grade you gave me isn’t inclusive. That’s unfair.
“...pursuing a minor in innovation....”
Bwahahahahahah!
Just BTW, the idiotic U. of Mizzou has a listed major in 'leisure studies', believe it or not.
Or "Does that mean that I cannot decide that I want to be referred to as 'Husband'? Are you denying me the right to choose my own identity?"
Dear Professor Clueless,
My priority is to be CLEAR, as I don’t give a damn about inclusive.
The professor sounds homophobic and should be confronted by the rainbow crowd. I knew a lesbian lawyer who would refer to her wife. I don’t think that she would be amused by this twerp.
Degrees (minor or otherwise) in “Innovation”, “Leisure Studies”, “Afro-American Lifestyles” etc. will qualify you for employment with McDonalds, Burger King, Piggly Wiggly, WalMart...
Go for it, you young mush minds.....
Correction: “adulthood challenged bopper”. Must not be ageist,you know.
so what do we use? Fuc$er and Fuc$ee?
She’s kinda cute. If she needs any help figuring out gender roles, I volunteer to ‘tutor’ her.
Mizz Lee, excuse me while I mambo dogface to the banana patch in your coffee.
University of Florida is a state school. 1st Amendment protections apply.
Use the “forbidden” terms. When she marks down grades file a lawsuit against the school on Constitutional and civil rights grounds. Watch as the University runs from her like a scalded dog and begs to settle the suit fir as low a $$$ amount as possible.
Eventually we will all be speaking in the third person, and no pronouns whatsoever.................like savages....................
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