University Launches Insult-Reporting System That Records Offenders’ Social Security Numbers

[flowers]

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/418387/print

The University of Colorado-Boulder has launched an online system where students can report people who make “hurtful statements” — and it’s so intense that it even asks for offenders’ Social Security numbers.

This “Bias Incident Reporting” system is intended to “address the impact of demeaning and hurtful statements as well as acts of intolerance directed towards protected classes,” according to the school’s website.

Bias reports are evaluated by the school’s “Bias Incident Response Team” which includes representatives from the office of the dean of students, the Office of Victim Assistance, and even the campus police.

The reporting form asks for the meanie-head’s name, gender (better get it right!), e-mail, address, date of birth, phone number and student ID number (if the meanie-head is a student) or a Social Security and/or driver’s license number (if the meanie-head is someone else). It includes a link for “pre-authorized users” to obtain this information if they don’t have it, and the school promises to “track” and “document” all of the reports.

    Just imagine how dangerous it would be for all of these adult students to live somewhere where they might get their feelings hurt and not be able to alert the administration from their laptop!

UC – Boulder defines a “bias incident” as “any conduct or expression in which an individual or group is intentionally targeted and that demeans, degrades or harasses an individual or group based on the actual or perceived basis of race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, political affiliation, or political philosophy of another individual or group of individuals.”

[truth_seeker]

When I attended college, it was assumed you were either adult, or very nearly so.

It has been discussed quite a bit how adulthood is now on a delayed-entry schedule. I speak about adolescents in their 30s, for instance.

This is a proof of that idea, since the system of recording insults seems like what a middle-school teacher might use, to make a point.

So think of high schoolers, as elementary children. Think of the college to 30s aged category, as middle schoolers, and you won't be off by much.

I learned to not sass my fellows on construction sites and docks, as a teenager.