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Northwestern Professor: Faculty Now Fear Students Demanding ‘Safe Spaces’
Big Government ^ | 5/29/15 | John Sexton

Posted on 05/30/2015 3:43:51 AM PDT by markomalley

A Northwestern University professor was accused of retaliation and investigated after students claimed an article she had written had a “chilling effect” on students’s ability to report sexual misconduct.

Writing on Friday in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Laura Kipnis describes an academic climate in which professors lay awake at night in fear of losing their careers over a single careless word or missed trigger warning. A new academic culture is rising in which hurt feelings are considered evidence of an attack. This hypersensitivity is being abetted by an expanding process of Title IX charges which allow anyone with an agenda or a grudge to go on the offensive against the faculty:

As I understand it, any Title IX charge that’s filed has to be investigated, which effectively empowers anyone on campus to individually decide, and expand, what Title IX covers. Anyone with a grudge, a political agenda, or a desire for attention can quite easily leverage the system.

And there are a lot of grudges these days. The reality is that the more colleges devote themselves to creating “safe spaces” — that new watchword — for students, the more dangerous those campuses become for professors. It’s astounding how aggressive students’ assertions of vulnerability have gotten in the past few years. Emotional discomfort is regarded as equivalent to material injury, and all injuries have to be remediated.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: academicbias; censorship; fascism; feminazi; pc
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To: Gaffer

I am more aware than you can imagine and have voiced my opinion in faculty meetings. I made a comment in a meeting several years ago about the altar of political correctness, followed by a deafening silence. I looked around the room and several faculty members looked as if they had been gut-shot. I still laugh about it. Several came to me after the meeting and expressed their agreement in private, the cowards they were.


21 posted on 05/30/2015 4:27:38 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: markomalley

If it were really so true. Let them worry.


22 posted on 05/30/2015 4:28:02 AM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: Neoliberalnot

I agree. I went through engineering, and I had no problems with any of my ChemE or EE professors. They were professional, and appeared apolitical in class. My guess is that many were conservative/Republican.


23 posted on 05/30/2015 4:29:30 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Frankly, it has become an embarrassment to be a part of higher Ed. I retire in about 2 months and will be glad to get away from what was once an enjoyable pursuit of hard science, teaching professional students, and veterinary services.


24 posted on 05/30/2015 4:36:39 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Gaffer

I think they’re rightly reaping what they’ve sown.


Yup. I teach computer science. Luckily, our students are more logical and practical than the rest of the campus, sothis nuttiness has not reached me....yet.


25 posted on 05/30/2015 4:41:58 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: Neoliberalnot

Though I have never been a part of higher Ed, I can see your point of view. You can only control what you do. It isn’t your fault the liberal arts professors are nutjobs.

I’m sure you’ve probably been a good influence, and conveyed proper education, to a large number of students. Just remember that, not these liberal filth.


26 posted on 05/30/2015 4:43:03 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: jmacusa

The Nazis, the Soviets and the Chinese did the same. These shrinking violets are more dangerous than we thought.


27 posted on 05/30/2015 4:43:35 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: markomalley

The professors have been creating little monster SJWs for years and now the little monster SJWs are coming to eat them?

Good.


28 posted on 05/30/2015 4:46:35 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Whatever happened to tort reform in the Republican agenda?


29 posted on 05/30/2015 4:47:58 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: markomalley
Most academics I know — this includes feminists, progressives, minorities, and those who identify as gay or queer — now live in fear of some classroom incident spiraling into professional disaster.

They have sown the wind.

30 posted on 05/30/2015 4:52:30 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: P.O.E.
Whatever happened to tort reform in the Republican agenda?

It's right there in the agenda, just below "Smaller Government" and "Rule of Law" ... and just as important ... meaning, not important.

31 posted on 05/30/2015 4:53:46 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: markomalley

#safeplace.

32 posted on 05/30/2015 4:54:30 AM PDT by 9thLife (The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.)
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To: P.O.E.

Lawyers and judges rule.


33 posted on 05/30/2015 5:05:37 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: shibumi

LOL


34 posted on 05/30/2015 5:15:50 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: markomalley

China will wipe the floor of the wimpiest generation.


35 posted on 05/30/2015 5:16:12 AM PDT by AU72
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To: markomalley

Liberal professors hoisted on their own pc-tards?

Schadenfreude moment.


36 posted on 05/30/2015 5:17:01 AM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: markomalley
Note to academia: You made your bed, now lie in it or if you prefer, this immutable law: You reap what you sow.

Your precious and sacred Socialism/Progressivism has come back upon you. I hope it destroys the corrupt and bastardized theme of your entire existence and you along with it.

Nothing worse than supposedly educated adults teaching young minds the rotting, decaying lies of Socialism and Marxism as virtues to be embraced.

37 posted on 05/30/2015 5:41:31 AM PDT by cashless (Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
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To: markomalley

Tell them the only safe place is their mama’s basement and sent all the whiny babies home. They aren’t mature enough to be let out alone.


38 posted on 05/30/2015 6:25:17 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: markomalley

Those in academia played a huge part in creating this mindset. Let it eat them alive, they’ve had it coming for decades...


39 posted on 05/30/2015 6:27:30 AM PDT by W. (Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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To: markomalley

A few conservative students should charge their profs with microaggression when they rant against conservative values and for Obama/leftism in their classes. I bet that the charges would be dismissed, but it would expose the double-standard.


40 posted on 05/30/2015 8:39:54 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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