Posted on 11/14/2019 4:59:33 PM PST by caww
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Wednesday the speech SWAT teams are at 200 schools and 'interfere with learning' and helping students interact with ideas they might not agree with.
The education secretary said that free speech must be protected on campuses, even if it hurts feelings.
“Feelings are important, but 'learning isn’t about feelings.... It’s about thinking.... And it’s a willingness to engage with any and all ideas — even ones with which you disagree or ones that aren’t your own,” she said according to a copy of her speech shared with Secrets.
“This administration won’t let students be silenced. We stand with their right to speak and with their right to learn truth. Truth can be pursued, and it can be known. Students of all ages need the freedom to seek it,” she added.
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Speech SWAT teams??
WTF?
The Left are vicious and a dangerous threat to society overall these days....none should be trusted.
Is DeVos finally getting serious about fighting leftist terror on campus?
Speech bullies can make a kid want to take his father’s gun to school.
One of the changes that needs to be made to make our schools safer is to get rid of these speech bullies.
These thought predators must be taken down
This is actually a reversion to traditional, tribal morality. Violating social norms and thus undermining cohesion of the group is considered as bad as assault or murder.
That is the logic Islam uses to execute atheists, openly practicing pagans and women who won’t veil.
This is the logic of African people today who murdered a woman for eating a forbidden fish. In 2019.
Liberals have reverted to tribal morality. They are laying the emotional foundation for it - that public offense is the basis for organizing a violent lynch mob to kill the blasphemer, the unbeliever.
Hate speech is modern blasphemy laws.
This is actually a reversion to traditional, tribal morality. Violating social norms and thus undermining cohesion of the group is considered as bad as assault or murder.
That is the logic Islam uses to execute atheists, openly practicing pagans and women who won’t veil.
This is the logic of African people today who murdered a woman for eating a forbidden fish. In 2019.
Liberals have reverted to tribal morality. They are laying the emotional foundation for it - that public offense is the basis for organizing a violent lynch mob to kill the blasphemer, the unbeliever.
Hate speech is modern blasphemy laws.
They are called “bias incident response teams” or something similar. You call in the offense or report it via a form. They send investigators who do an investigation, sometimes interrogate the person who committed the ‘offense’ and talk to the offended person.
We know this is purely political. Laura Kipnis was subject to TWO Title IX (officially, sexual harassment and rape) tribunals ... for writing an article and then book questioning the rape culture hysteria. Her sin? Denying the 1/4 rape rate reported by school admins.
“Hate speech is modern blasphemy laws.“
Maybe, but back in the day up to maybe the mid 20th century, liberals and conservatives could agree fairly well on what was blasphemous.
No they aren't.
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