Posted on 08/25/2016 2:09:35 PM PDT by BBell
The administration of the prestigious University of Chicago has drawn a line in the sand on one of higher education's hottest topics: whether what some students see as protection from hate speech trumps the traditional right to free speech.
In a letter to incoming students, Dean of Students Jay Ellison cast the university's stance as a matter of "academic freedom." The letter has been circulated widely.
"We do not support so-called 'trigger warnings,' we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual 'safe spaces' where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own," he wrote.
A trigger warning is when a professor alerts students of upcoming material they may find offensive or personally traumatic.
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Do you think this could start a trend?
He will rescind or be out by Nov 1st.
Maybe. Yale got rid of that provost(?) not caving to the snowflakes over Halloween costumes.
A small island of sanity, in Chicago of all places, in a raging sea of idiocy.
And shockingly the one time employer of Caliph Baraq....
alleged employer
Went to the link, followed it to the New Yorker article.
I have to ask; seriously, do these people just make up words that sound academically acceptable.Are they trying to create a new language to make themselves sound intelligent.
1: Afro-Latinx ?
2: Ableism ?
3: Allyship ?
4: Cissexim ?
5: Cisgender ?
6: Heteropatriarchy ?
7: Microaggression ?
8: Transgressive expression ?
9: Trump-averse ?
I have been working full time since I was 14 years old; janitor after school, USFS Firefighter, Marine Corps, USFS Firefighter, JPL Security Sgt, JPL Instrument Tech, Long haul trucker, Operations/Maintenance Supervisor.
Somebody please tell me; just what language are these little snowflakes speaking.
If one of these maggots had come onto any of my job sites spouting this crap, I would have had them escorted from the site under guard.
BTW, I was in 3/5 at Camp Margarita.
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