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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Lawyers making laws to benefit lawyers. More lawsuits, more money.
And they don’t have to get it from clients - they get it from the government.
Shrewd, no?
bfl
My kids where 8 years apart. The boy, older, got the corporal punishment and no “safe space” treatment. He understood authority and what his role in the family had to be. Eight years younger, my daughter who besides maturing much earlier than her brother also came up in a time where rights of the child, safe homes, claims of abuse or their autonomy, even at 17, was a near-legal fact.
Today, teenagers and their peers know all the laws, they're very well versed in what trouble you can get a parent into with the right claims. They were taught all this by their predecessors just a couple or three or four years ahead of them, greatly supplemented with liberal media hyping the new cause celeb re AND college professors who sat in their college classrooms and in their cloistered offices and preached to us all about how their views on history and society are the only ones that count.
Somehow I just don't think a group of privileged professors being “scared” or in “fear” of students’ demands for ‘safe spaces’ plays very high up on my give-a-sh!t meter. I think they're rightly reaping what they've sown.
Next they’ll want some nice flavored fluid for thumb sucking.
A nice soft blue or pink blankie would be nice.
Some of those PJs with the feet in them.
And then why not have some depends ready. They may fall asleep.
These kids are reverting to five year old children.
Agreed. Every rule, regulation, and law ultimately benefits the lawyers and judges. This ugly mass called the judiciary continues to spread like fungus on a dead carcass. The lawyers and the blackrobe tyrants run it all including every branch of government. They take a piece of every business and every industry, and now, they have completely taken over healthcare and will line their pockets with billions more of taxpayer dollars. Title IX is their new scheme to takeover higher education and it is working. The university where I work recently hired an east coast shakedown artist of industry at a provost level position to administer this scam. She previously used her shakedown powers to threaten massive lawsuits against industry for discrimination of minorities, dykes, queers, and other assorted weasels to extract multimillion dollar pocket liners.
“I think they’re rightly reaping what they’ve sown.”
My thoughts exactly!!!!
Politicians come and go. The bureaucrats are there forever.
Corporal punishment may become the new sexual assault of future.
“An Oregon man was arrested yesterday on charges he spanked his son 24 years ago”
There is a substantial divide between the STEM professors and liberal farts profs. Those of us in the hard sciences, medicine, engineering are about 50% on the conservative side. I see the TEA party stickers on their bumpers in just the one parking lot where I work.
I have no sympathy. Academics created this mess let them clean it up.
It is more the judges who simply dismiss laws they don’t like and selectively enforce laws they do like. They mostly have lifetime appointments and their power grows like a fungus on wet organic matter (us).
I realize that. I graduated from a STEM institute back in 1980. Many, many conservative profs there. BUT, there were also a lot of those liberal farts profs in the liberal arts Freshman and Sophomore parts as well. I had a hippy sandal wearing goateed Columbia prof who hated my guts because I was ex military.
If you want to call lawyers academics fine, but you don’t work here. The hard sciences don’t all promote this game.
All hail The Spies! I’m reminded of Orwell’s ‘’1984’’ and how The Party made children the watchdogs and informers on their parents.
I would put the liberal arts profs, if you want to call these lazy slackers profs, at 98% psychotic liberal progressives. They give us in research science and medicine a very bad name, and I despise them all.
I agree. Actions DO have consequences.
I certainly don’t disagree with you there. It is a pity that they are the ones that usually get most of the new college freshmen’s time before they really have a chance to learn something worthwhile.
The whole triggers, microagression, safe spaces thing is transparently a means to intimidate and eliminate politically incorrect free speech by thought poli ce leftists. Why does anyone give any quarter to this nonsense?
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