Posted on 09/09/2016 11:21:36 AM PDT by BBell
Our core mission here at Heat Street is to protect and defend free speech from social justice warriors who want to silence it.
So I’m particularly proud to be able to report that, after a series of stories and FOIA requests by Heat Street political editor Jillian Melchior, the University of Northern Colorado has closed its ‘Bias Response Team’—for good.
University President Kay Norton, in her ‘State of the Union’ college address, announced she was throwing in the towel:
“We will no longer have a separate process for bias-related concerns,” Norton said in her prepared remarks.
Jillian’s reports on the free-speech disaster at UNC caused by its Bias Response Team caused a sensation in the state of Colorado—and beyond. She recounted how one professor was threatened with a Title IX investigation if he even discussed ‘uncomfortable’ topics for students in the classroom. This was a direct attack on faculty freedom of speech, and the First Amendment at a publicly funded college. Jillian’s report contained a recording of a session the educator was forced to undergo with a UNC Bias Response Team staffer wherein he was threatened with a federal investigation and told not to discuss transgender issues or give his view as part of academic discussions. The professor was not invited to teach at UNC the following year.
Another Melchior story recounted how the Bias Response Team had threatened free speech and freedom of expression on campus with over 600 posters warning students against using basic, everyday terms like “hey guys” and “that’s crazy.”
Students at UNC rebelled against this, writing “all lives do matter” and “free speech matters” over Bias Response Team posters ordering them not to say “all lives matter” because it had been deemed to be offensive to the racist, anti-cop movement Black Lives Matter. Jillian exposed the
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I searched and saw you had posted an article on this subject in June so I thought I would ping you.
I recently discovered Heat Street.
I like them; they seem like good people.
Ain’t she purrrrty?
I know people just like that. Too much like that.
When it’s clear they are locked into their stupidity, I just try avoiding them or keeping contact to a minimum.
Some of them simply cannot be fixed.
Regarding free speech, the opposite of diversity is university.
Hey guys, that was crazy!
Only because it got so much attention...you can be sure this attitude hasn’t changed just because they have had to take it back underground. Until we conservatives are just as litigious as the left and sue them for everything, every time, the underlying thought behind these kinds of tactics won’t change. And I know that won’t happen until we have successfully injected a strong measure of conservatism in the legal profession...in other words, when all these people are dead.
Wow, I though this was about the University of No Classes (University of North Carolina).
I only recently discovered them as well.
I call them demonic.
The Soviet Union called them "comrades."
They dream of pulling triggers on prisoners.
Thanks!
Until they are the ones in the back of the buses, bent over and wired with their arms behind their backs, being driven to the Katyn Forest to be massacred by a bullet to their brains.
That graphic has to be fixed (so it reads “You Are” or “You’re). Otherwise, it’s unusable.
I’m an alumnus of UNC (Northern Colorado, NOT North Carolina), and I am always careful to make that distinction.
Whoops! Hadn’t seen that possibility.
YEP! They actually, really don't think that will happen to them, because they've been so helpful to their leaders for so long, undermining and sabotaging fellow workers, turning in their neighbors, betraying family members - you know, accumulating their little gold stars.
They also don't read history.
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