Posted on 02/22/2017 6:38:26 AM PST by detective
Universities are the cradle of free speech, where ideologies and ideas clash, where academics and activists can agree, disagree, or be disagreeable. This is particularly true in the United States, where the First Amendment zealously guards against government surveillance and intrusion into free speech.
Yet at hundreds of campuses across the country, administrators encourage students to report one another, or their professors, for speech protected by the First Amendment, or even mere political disagreements. The so-called "Bias Response Teams" reviewing these (often anonymous) reports typically include police officers, student conduct administrators and public relations staff who scrutinize the speech of activists and academics.
This sounds like the stuff of Orwell, although even he might have found the name "Bias Response Team" to be over-the-top.
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America is becoming a backward totalitarian dictatorship.
Trump needs to turn things around.
Brownshirts
Cut off their funding
Any “student” “reporting” another for “Free speech violations’ shoull not only have his/her student loans called due, but should be sued by both the student targets and the DOJ, as well as the u for systematic denial of rights
Fill the reports with complaints about Hate Speech against the President.
The Nazis and Communists did this also.
Parents need to take an active role. My son goes to Franklin Pierce University in NH where this crap isn’t tolerated. If it ever was you better believe me and a lot of other parents would be up there and in their faces about it.
Liberals are nothing more than fascist aholes.
Was it Ann Coulter who said academia is our most important target after illegal immigration?
I’d love to see all federal funding pulled immediately from higher ed—except for nearly free, online colleges. And of course, even that shouldn’t be funded by taxpayers, but it could get the pump primed for a replacement system before funding is stopped altogether.
The students and their handlers are a bunch of Maoist Red Guards.
This game needs to be stomped quickly by the administrators because in Red Guard land, the administrators and teachers were rounded up and shipped to the farms, if not killed.
Those Universities better have lots of $$$.
Sounds like the old Soviet Union and East Germany.
The Stasi would be so proud.
Goody Williams is a witch! I saw her dancing in the woods...
Original:
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Revised:
I disapprove of what you say, so I will report you and make your life miserable.
Snowflake
Ping.
She signed the book! She signed the book!
I see my alma mater is on the list. It used to be a fairly conservative place.
No more money for them.
The list is here:
Do not send your child or your money to any school with a “Bias Response Team.” That is blatantly un-American.
That is double ungood!
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