University Squelches Freedom Of Speech With Campus-wide Discrimination Initiative

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University Squelches Freedom Of Speech With Campus-wide Discrimination Initiative

Posted By Emma Colton On 10:14 PM 09/04/2014 In | No Comments




Wake Forest University kicked off the fall 2014 semester by instituting a campus-wide online system that has the potential to restrict free speech by allowing students and staff to anonymously file reports on any occurrences they deem biased or hateful.

Known as the Bias Incident Report system, the online form does not specify the criteria for filing a report, nor does it explicitly define the word “bias.” Instead, students are pressured to submit a report anytime they believe they are encountering an incident of hate or bias — potentially opening the floodgates for students to report incidents without cause.

The report form lists a bevy of reasons an incident could be perceived as biased, some of which include: citizenship, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, religion, sexual orientation and economic background. The form even offers an option to upload a video, photos or audio of the occurrence.

The guidelines as to what “bias” relies heavily on student emotion — when a student feels at all offended by someone’s differing political or religious ideologies, a file is reported and is required to be officially investigated by university officials. (RELATED: Dartmouth Student Who Spoke ‘Mock Chinese’ Remains On The Lam)

Once a student or faculty member files a complaint, the report is sent to a group of school bureaucrats who call themselves “The Bias Incident Review Group.” The dean of students, Adam Goldstein, and assistant provost for diversity and inclusion, Barbee Oakes, head the league of paper-pushing justice seekers.

“Upon review of each incident, the group will assemble a team to support individuals involved and help take steps toward resolution,” Wake Forest said in an email to the student body, which is now posted on the school website. ”These steps may include strategies for addressing environmental factors that would reduce the likelihood of future incidents.”

Though the report system was launched at the start of the school year, the school admitted on its website that none of the members of the review group are officially trained to decipher what constitutes acts of bias and hate.  The North Carolina university has also not released any information on how the incidents will be evaluated.

Regardless of the potentially harmful state of this system, when the Bias Incident Review Group reaches a verdict, Wake Forest can use the decision to enforce campus-wide policies based solely on the decision of the untrained, newly formed group.

 
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[240B]

A Black person or a Muslim or a homosexual will never be censured (whatever that means) for "bias".
 
Only White male Christians will be censured, and possibly White Jews if they speak out about Hamas.
 
Being anti-Islam, i.e., anti-beheadings, anti-rape, etc., will be considered "bias".
 
Saying anything that anyone could consider to be anti-Obama will zoom you immediately to the top of the list of being "biased". Anyone who does not worship Obama, obviously is a racist. All the alarm bells will start ringing.
 
Typical good little Nazis running our campuses. Report your neighbor for improper thought! Sieg Heil.

[rangerrebew]

 
Typical good little Nazis running our campuses. Report your neighbor for improper thought! Sieg Heil.

The Stasi and KGB would be proud of Wake Forest, too.

[EC]

Typical good little Nazis running our campuses. Report your neighbor for improper thought! Sieg Heil.

Nah - typical ivory tower wishful thinking. You'd think that a decent sized campus would have the vaguest idea about how kids behave. This is going to be so heavily abused it'll get shut down by Christmas.

The idea isn't all that bad - its worked pretty well in reducing particularly vicious crimes such as rape, and hate and bullying happen more than any decent person is comfortable with. But this is mostly going to be a "he said, she said" thing. The only reports that should be considered are ones with names, dates, corroborating witness statements (or video/audio recordings), and the campus police - a very cynical lot - should be the ones looking at it.

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When you are dealing with the Left, everything has to be lockstep. You must obey. You must agree.
 
In the Leftist world, when they say the sky is orange, then it is. And you are not 'allowed' to disagree.
 
With the Left, just the mere fact that you would say something that they do no 'approve' makes you crazy. And if you are religous then just forget it. The Left will pounce on you like pack of wolves and tear you to pieces.
 
This is the "Leftist" version of 'free speech'. You can say anything you want, so long as it is 'approved' speech and they agree with it.
 
If you say anything the Leftist hierarchy  does not "approve", then you are a 'thought criminal'.
 
You are not thinking right. You need to be "reeducated".
 
Seig Heil!
Seig Heil!
Seig Hiel!
 
And the fact that the guy in charge of this totalitarianism is named Adam Goldstein does not surprise me in the least. That is just what they do. That is who they are. They worship totalitarianism. They cannot help themselves. They cannot understand what freedom is. They don't know it. They do not understand it.
 
We're going to have to save them again. Saving them from themselves. It is becomming tiresome.

[EC]

When you are dealing with the Left, everything has to be lockstep. You must obey. You must agree.
 
In the Leftist world, when they say the sky is orange, then it is. And you are not 'allowed' to disagree.
 
With the Left, just the mere fact that you would say something that they do no 'approve' makes you crazy. And if you are religous then just forget it. The Left will pounce on you like pack of wolves and tear you to pieces.
 
This is the "Leftist" version of 'free speech'. You can say anything you want, so long as it is 'approved' speech and they agree with it.
 
If you say anything the Leftist hierarchy  does not "approve", then you are a 'thought criminal'.
 
You are not thinking right. You need to be "reeducated".
 
Seig Heil!
Seig Heil!
Seig Hiel!
 
And the fact that the guy in charge of this totalitarianism is named Adam Goldstein does not surprise me in the least. That is just what they do. That is who they are. They worship totalitarianism. They cannot help themselves. They cannot understand what freedom is. They don't know it. They do not understand it.
 
We're going to have to save them again. Saving them from themselves. It is becomming tiresome.

Too right on the tiresome part. They break things then stand there letting the conservatives do the heavy lifting. They never seem t realize that the more breakage they cause, the less likely we CAN fix it. And, they've broken a lot.

[Oceander]

There is another name for this sort of nonsense:  government informants, ratting on their fellow citizens.  It is how every despotic, fascist government has sought to control people.