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Conversation cops step in to school students ('Hate Speech' monitors)
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| November 19, 2008
| CARLY WEEKS
Posted on 11/19/2008 11:26:34 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
the should go re-educate AQ on their mean Obammy remarks.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:29:16 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Not directed at you, FreeThinker...
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:29:25 AM PST
by
fredhead
(If Teddy drove a VW, he would have become President........VW's float.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
What a queer-assed thing to do!
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:29:40 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Did Canada’s futile battle with Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn teach it anything?
No, apparently not.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:29:43 AM PST
by
agere_contra
(So ... where's the birth certificate?)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Those PC fascists deserve a beat down. Seriously.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:29:48 AM PST
by
PeterFinn
(Joe Biden for President)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Organized snitches. My guess is that the number of violent encounters in the dorms will now suddenly increase.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:30:05 AM PST
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
(Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
To: PeterFinn
They’re just trying to pick up the clean end of a turd.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:30:35 AM PST
by
MrB
(The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
To: Free ThinkerNY
"If people are having a conversation with offensive content and they're doing it loud enough for a third person to hear it ... it's not private," said Jason Laker, dean of student affairs at Queen's. This is tied in to that "Constitutional Right Against Being Offended" that so many seem to know about, but which I cannot find anywhere in the actual document, isn't it?
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:31:29 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: Free ThinkerNY
To: metmom; Tired of Taxes; wintertime
“The Kingston university has hired student facilitators to step in when they overhear homophobic slurs, remarks bashing women or racially tinged insults, along with an array of other language that could be deemed offensive.”
The surveillance state makes its grand appearance. You can bet it’s coming to high schools and grade schools before long.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:32:05 AM PST
by
Clintonfatigued
(If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
To: WayneS
will they still be able to call it Queen’s College?
To: Free ThinkerNY
As with the USSR and Nazi Germany free speech is gone. The left is in command again.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:33:37 AM PST
by
YOUGOTIT
(The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
To: Republicus2001
I don’t know... that sounds kind of homo-phobic, don’t you think?
;^)
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:35:15 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: Free ThinkerNY
This will be a wonderful idea until the first time someone not-so-PC really takes offense. Then the Conversation Cops will wind up with their head in a toilet and the back of their underwear pulled up around their neck.
There was a kid in my dorm who would fit the "Conversation Cop" stereotype to a T. Couple of football players got tired of his BS and hung him over the side of the roof by his ankles until he completed a couple of stanzas of the school fight song. End of problem.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:35:55 AM PST
by
wbill
To: Free ThinkerNY
So, calling a homosexual a homosexual is offensive?
These "people" have some real issues.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:37:33 AM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
(When homo's can procreate - then they can get married)
To: WayneS
Why is it called “Homo Phobic” anyhow? It always seems like it’s the Homo’s that are the “Phobic” ones.
To: bitterohiogunclinger
I know what you mean.
I’m not AFRAID of homosexuals, I simply do not approve of their choice in sexual practices.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:43:11 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: Free ThinkerNY
The obvious question is why anybody would send their kids to these places.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:43:23 AM PST
by
henkster
(It's time for a conservative "long march through the institutions.")
To: Free ThinkerNY
"She said that facilitators who haven't been trained properly could end up reinforcing defense mechanisms of privileged students.
" And if I resent the term “privileged” to describe me? Privileged in this sense is code for white male. No need to determine my economic history or how many of my ancestors died in concentration camps, or what jobs I have been passed over for in favor of some “disadvantaged” peer. By definition I would say this place is a hostile environment for me and I should avoid it. Which of course at my age I will but rest assured I am very careful where I send my kids to college and you can bet I take into account where job applicants went to school. In fact a college diploma rapidly is losing its status in hiring decisions. engineering degrees excepted. A liberal arts degree is a negative in my book. But these academic institutions like Queens University (can I say Queens?)are not interested in preparing students for work as much as changing society.
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posted on
11/19/2008 11:44:00 AM PST
by
dblshot
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