Posted on 01/16/2018 11:28:19 AM PST by nickcarraway
Williams College Students Can Report Each Other for 'Making Comments on Social Media' About Religion or Politics
Bias incident reporting system undermines the very point of having a university.
Williams College is one of at least 100 campuses with a system in place for students to report each other for saying or doing something slightly offensive. These trivially disturbing occurrences are known as "bias incidents"—and at Williams, virtually anything could qualify.
According to the Massachusetts college's website, "name-calling and stereotyping" are examples of bias. Telling a joke that draws its humor from a stereotype is also wrong. Students shouldn't use slurs, or the word "gay" as an insult, or display "a sign that is colorcoded pink for girls and blue for boys," or imitate someone's "cultural norm or practice."
And since religion and political affiliation are considered protected classes for the purposes of categorizing bias incidents, the following kinds of expression are also considered verboten:
Making comments on social media about someone's disability, ethnicity, race, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, or political affiliations/beliefs
Writing on a white board about someone's disability, ethnicity, national origin, race, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, or political affiliations/beliefs
Drawing or creating pictures that imitate, stereotype, or belittle/ridicule someone because of their gender, gender expression, race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, faith, or political affiliation
Mocking someone's disability on Twitter would be awful. "Making comments on social media" about another person's religious or political beliefs isn't remotely similar. Some people's religious and political beliefs should be discussed, challenged, and even mocked. As the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker once observed, "that's the difference between a university and a madrassa."
As The College Fix noted in a recent article about Williams' bias reporting procedures, the college's website correctly distinguishes between a bias incident and a hate crime, explicitly telling students that the former is not a crime. Still, the website claims that bias incidents are "abhorrent and intolerable" and that any people who think they're victims of, or witnesses to, such an episode should feel free to report it to the proper authorities: the Dean of the College, the Office of Strategic Planning and Diversity, counselling services, or even campus security.
It bears repeating that the theory behind bias reporting systems—that relatively trivial slights, known as microaggressions, can negatively impact students' educational experience if left unaddressed—is scientifically unsound. In his review of the research concerning microaggressions, the Emory clinical psychologist Scott Lilienfeld found little evidence of such a connection between microaggressions and psychological trauma. And when the Cato Institute polled minority students about whether various microaggressions offended them, most said nope.
lil snitches
Lavrenti Beria would be proud of them.
Snitches get stitches...
Soviet martyr —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov
The Stalinists made up the facts, but the story is that brave little Pavlik informed on counter-revolutionaries in his family (as a good boy should do) and those nasty counter-revolutionaries didn’t like it.
If Hillary had won, this country would have gone full Stalin.
This should be grounds for being kicked off campus.
All students have a right to voice their opinions on topics.
As long as those comments don’t seek to advance the idea of denying other people’s civil rights, all speech should be protected.
Those trying to silence others, should be led to the closest exit, and drop kicked through it.
Report anti-Christian speech and the person reported on gets an “A”.
Pussies.
Gonna dig out my old books about the Soviet Union, to re-learn all the terms and tricks of the KGB/ GRU etc.
Oh dear - negroes can't use hair straighteners any more?
STASI.
You can advance the idea of curtailing other’s civil rights, too. You should just be shouted down and shamed.
Well bless their hearts...
So “Writing on a white board about someone’s...political affiliations/beliefs” is not allowed?
Sure. And the sun is rising in the west tomorrow. Good luck to the aggrieved conservative bringing that case before the student court.
...and end up in ditches.
We are really turning into Venezuela very quickly.
Fascist bastards! Yeah, the NAZIs and the communists did this crap too. Turn in your friends, co-workers even parents. Thought control. University students are brain-washed idiots.
And white people have to stop listening to Reggae, the Blues and didgeridoo music ...
Had he lived, little Pavlik would have made a good soldier in an NKVD “Special Detachment,” gladly shooting soldiers who retreated and other “traitors” during the Great Patriotic War.
#BULLYING
Uncle Miltie, in theory you’re right. I agree in principle
What we have going on today is going to take more than that sort of thing though.
The Left has been given so much room to turn this into a full-on repression of thought, that it will take more than what you prescribe to get things back under control.
The administration is going to have to come up with rules stopping the sort of Leftist bashing of people with other ideas. The people with decent ideas, have been placed in an advanced disadvantage/minority position.
90% of the faculty on many of our campuses serve to back up the Leftists, and intimidate people with our views.
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