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Hundreds of campuses encourage students to turn in fellow students for offensive speech
By Adam Steinbaugh • 2/21/17 7:00 PM


Universities are the cradle of free speech, where ideologies and ideas clash, where academics and activists can agree, disagree, or be disagreeable. This is particularly true in the United States, where the First Amendment zealously guards against government surveillance and intrusion into free speech.

Yet at hundreds of campuses across the country, administrators encourage students to report one another, or their professors, for speech protected by the First Amendment, or even mere political disagreements. The so-called "Bias Response Teams" reviewing these (often anonymous) reports typically include police officers, student conduct administrators and public relations staff who scrutinize the speech of activists and academics.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/students-rat-each-other-out-over-speech/article/2615405
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Sticks and stones are given power by the attacker.

Words are only given power by the receiver.


True, but the universities are merrily converting words into sticks and stones.

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