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New Video Shows University Of Oklahoma Faculty Teaching How To Silence And Punish ‘Problematic’ Conservatives
The Federalist ^ | 6/23/2021 | Audrey Unverferth

Posted on 06/23/2021 10:57:05 PM PDT by bitt

'In the classroom, free speech does not apply,' a workshop spokeswoman said. 'As instructors, we can tell our students no, you do not have the right to say that, stop talking right now.'

According to newly released video footage, University of Oklahoma instructors want to punish students who defy campus orthodoxy. Their plan is to “avoid ‘a rhetoric of dysfunctional silence’ that closes ears to marginalized voices,” by — you guessed it — silencing marginalized voices.

On Tuesday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a nonprofit focused on protecting campus free speech, publicized video footage of an April 14 workshop on “Anti-Racist Rhetoric & Pedagogies” at the University of Oklahoma (OU). The workshop’s leaders presented slides about “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” and “subverting white institutional defensiveness.” In an attempt to teach so-called antiracism, the workshop’s leaders also promoted censorship and indoctrination.

The event was “one of nine professional development workshops for instructors and grad students” at OU. During the workshop, three faculty members taught their colleagues “how to foster an anti-racist environment in their classrooms,” brainstorming tactics for dissuading, censoring, and penalizing “problematic” speech.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: academia; audreyunverferth; conservatives; criticalracetheory; education; freespeech; oklahoma; systemicracism; uofoklahoma; whiteprivilege
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1 posted on 06/23/2021 10:57:05 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 06/23/2021 10:57:19 PM PDT by bitt ( A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.)
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To: bitt

The Un. of Oklahoma needs a good academic tornado clean-out via lawsuits, donors stopping donations, and free speech rallies.

This is another example of what Marxist Hispanics and their self-hating white Marxist colleagues are doing to our once traditionally moderate colleges.


3 posted on 06/23/2021 11:18:59 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: bitt

“’In the classroom, free speech does not apply,’ a workshop spokeswoman said. ‘As instructors, we can tell our students no, you do not have the right to say that, stop talking right now.’”

At a State school, or one that takes federal student aid? You bet your sweet azz free speech applies.


4 posted on 06/23/2021 11:34:55 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: DesertRhino
“'In the classroom, free speech does not apply,’ a workshop spokeswoman said. ‘As instructors, we can tell our students no, you do not have the right to say that, stop talking right now.'”

Exactly what I was told, word for word, by the administrations in Texas in my latter years of teaching before making a career change. Exact words. No one in society would come to my defense.

5 posted on 06/23/2021 11:38:03 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: DesertRhino

“At a State school, or one that takes federal student aid? You bet your sweet azz free speech applies”

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Too bad we don’t have a government that will enforce the constitution. Our constitution is meaningless if not enforced.


6 posted on 06/24/2021 12:21:58 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. )
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To: bitt

NOT ONE of them would be able to saddle a horse. MUCH LESS RIDE ONE.


7 posted on 06/24/2021 12:22:14 AM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Usually it comes in the form of blunting classroom discussion that naturally or organically moves in a particular direction due to gaps of logic appearing in the professor’s presentation that prove embarrassing for the professor to address. The student identified by the professor as the locus of the professor’s discomfort is immediately targeted by the professor and made to pay for the transgression right there and then, in a process the school’s administration perversely sees as being fully within the professor’s discretion as a kind of classroom “manager” whose intellectual authority is for all intents and purposes impossible to even question much less challenge during class instructional time/lecture time.


8 posted on 06/24/2021 12:47:40 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: bitt

Not one county in OK voted for Obama, Hill or Biden but this crap goes on even there.


9 posted on 06/24/2021 1:30:31 AM PDT by arkfreepdom
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To: bitt

Why are parents sending their young people to these Marxist indoctrination centers? American universities are no longer worthwhile for our future. They are the source of pure hatred, bitterness and destruction of America.


10 posted on 06/24/2021 2:08:01 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: arkfreepdom; Osage Orange

true

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11 posted on 06/24/2021 3:08:10 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Gnome1949

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

https://www.tysknews.com/Depts/New_World_Order/comgoals.htm


12 posted on 06/24/2021 3:12:08 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: bitt; All

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.


13 posted on 06/24/2021 3:13:54 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: bitt

The Clash called it almost 50 years ago. “You have the right, to free speech, provided you’re not dumb enough to Actually try it!”. - know your rights, the Clash, lp- Cbat Rock.


14 posted on 06/24/2021 3:14:19 AM PDT by Ikeon (Not knowing the truth doesn't make you ignorant, not wanting the truth does. )
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To: Ikeon

The album is “ Combat Rock” by The Clash


15 posted on 06/24/2021 3:16:26 AM PDT by Ikeon (Not knowing the truth doesn't make you ignorant, not wanting the truth does. )
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To: bitt

Big Education™ has gone fully fascist.


16 posted on 06/24/2021 3:20:34 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: bitt

anti-racism is bigotry plain and simple.


17 posted on 06/24/2021 3:39:22 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: central_va

Suggestions for the new war:

1. Unless your son or daughter is prepared to take Calculus in their first semester, I would suggest a vocational of trade school.

2. The state legislature needs to cut off ALL funding to the school.

3. Do not spend one penny on school related activities, or merchandise.

4. Do not watch any school related activity on television.

By reducing the number of students and cutting off funding, you will hurt the Humanities departments which is where all this bullshit originates. These courses are all required to be taken by all students, but do not generate income from donations and research grants like the STEM or business courses.


18 posted on 06/24/2021 3:51:44 AM PDT by wrcase
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To: bitt

https://www.ou.edu/cis/sponsored_programs/institute-for-us-china-issues

What a coinkydink.


19 posted on 06/24/2021 3:59:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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'In the classroom, free speech does not apply,' a workshop spokeswoman said. 'As instructors, we can tell our students no, you do not have the right to say that, stop talking right now.'
Oh, so it happens in Oklahoma, and it's big news? This has been an ongoing problem throughout the so-called educational system for a long time.

20 posted on 06/24/2021 4:12:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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