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College ‘Bias Response Team’ Targets Free Speech With 680 Signs
Heatstreet ^ | June 16, 2016 | Jillian Kay Melchior

Posted on 06/17/2016 8:00:42 AM PDT by C19fan

Last year, the University of Northern Colorado hung 680 #languagematters posters around campus, warning students against words and phrases deemed offensive. “Words are connected to a long and often forgotten history of oppression and people,” one poster said. “Language matters because, whether it is intentional or not, the impact of words can reinforce oppression and feelings of discomfort, fear and shame,” another said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: leftist; leftistcrap; pc; sjw; youpayforthis
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"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength"
1 posted on 06/17/2016 8:00:42 AM PDT by C19fan
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Idiots are idiots...


2 posted on 06/17/2016 8:01:46 AM PDT by HotHunt
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This is what academia has become.


3 posted on 06/17/2016 8:03:06 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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Is “precious snowflake” offensive?


4 posted on 06/17/2016 8:03:32 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: C19fan

1st Amendment....BEGONE!!!! Freakin’ morons.


5 posted on 06/17/2016 8:04:00 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

It is no longer academia, it is indoctrination with suppression of non-liberal ideas


6 posted on 06/17/2016 8:06:35 AM PDT by falcon99
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Someone should go around and hang that sign right underneath the other ones

GEEZ Orwell was prescient!!!!


7 posted on 06/17/2016 8:08:21 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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STICKS AND STONES WILL BREAK MY BONES, BUT WORDS ARE EVEN WORSE!


8 posted on 06/17/2016 8:08:53 AM PDT by struggle (The)
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Colleges continue to coddle the young mushbrains.

Will they be able to handle real life on the outside?


9 posted on 06/17/2016 8:11:56 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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These snowflake scum are the future of this country? Wow. What a shame. I want to see how these scum end up in the workforce.


10 posted on 06/17/2016 8:12:07 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: Don Corleone

New language supposedly deemed non-offensive to anyone - Grunt groan harrumph ugh nyuck. I have no idea what it means - and neither does anybody else. But it is non-offensive - except to Neanderthals. And they’re all dead.


11 posted on 06/17/2016 8:14:16 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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Someone should go around and hang that sign right underneath the other ones GEEZ Orwell was prescient!!!!

I doubt if you would find even 10% who would know the man (beyond generalities) and far fewer that would know the word!

12 posted on 06/17/2016 8:14:57 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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This was my favorite: "Because the word illegal is a racist slur that discriminates against people who are perceived to be immigrants. No human is illegal."

We are doomed.
13 posted on 06/17/2016 8:16:42 AM PDT by needmorePaine
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Official “bias response team” takes swift action against transgressions

The collectivist bias of libtardism is destructive to the ideals of liberty and social order, and to the growth of the individual to adult competence. Instead of promoting a rational society of competent adults who solve the problems of living through voluntary cooperation, the modern libtard agenda creates an irrational society of child-like adults who depend upon governments to take care of them. In its ongoing effort to collectivize society's basic economic, social, and political processes, the libtard agenda undermines the character traits essential to individual liberty, material security, voluntary cooperation, and social order.

14 posted on 06/17/2016 8:16:44 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Don Corleone

First, they came for the Second Amendment. I did not care, as I did not own guns.

Then they came for the First Amendment...

Something along those lines.

Other amendments have been eroded (Fourth, Tenth)...


15 posted on 06/17/2016 8:17:43 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Don Corleone

There you go. How do they stay open to pose as a university? Those openly opposing the Constitution should serve time or shunned until there is restitution equal to the damage they have laid on minds of students with heads full of mush.


16 posted on 06/17/2016 8:18:38 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. PubYeslic education is the farm team for more Marxists coming-- infinitum.)
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“Words are connected to a long and often forgotten history of oppression and people,” one poster said.

I've got a few words for their "Bias Response Team" but they would get me suspended or banned!

17 posted on 06/17/2016 8:20:12 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: NTHockey
I have no idea what it means - and neither does anybody else. But it is non-offensive - except to Neanderthals.

Ah, BUT grasshopper, you fail to appreciate to power of 'PC'! It is the 'victim' who takes offense based upon their internal perception. Thus nothing is safe no matter what it's objective content. It devolves offense to the most thin-skinned amongst us!

Take care not to denigrate the power of people determined to be offended!

18 posted on 06/17/2016 8:21:33 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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Every time ZuZu's petals are bruised, the Baileys receive ten cane lashes each. George Bailey and ZuZu photo: It's A Wonderful Life ItsAWonderfulLife.jpg
19 posted on 06/17/2016 8:23:20 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ican'tbelieveit

First, they came for the Second Amendment. I did not care, as I did not own guns.

Then they came for the First Amendment...and the Second was not there to protect it.


20 posted on 06/17/2016 8:24:25 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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