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- Are America’s institutions of higher learning are becoming hostile environments for freedom of speech? Do students lose their freedom of expression when they enter a public institution of higher learning? The Factual Feminist examines recent encroachment on students' freedoms in the name of protecting women.
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In its April Fools’ Day 2013 spoof edition, the University of Alaska campus newspaper, the Sun Star, announced that the school was going to construct a new building in the shape of a vagina to “honor the schools 59 percent female demographic.” The story included a photo of a gynocentric construction taken from the 1998 Robin Williams movie Patch Adams . Campus gender activists were not amused. Guess what happened? That’s coming up on the Factual Feminist. The coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies department, Jensine Anahita, was deeply offended by the April Fools’ spoof. She filed harassment charges, and accused the student paper of contributing to the “rape culture.” For nearly a year, the editor of the Sun Star (and author of the vagina building satire) Lakeidra Chavis and her staff were under a Title IX investigation cloud. The students were eventually exonerated. But the Gender Studies Coordinator’s complaint should not have taken months to investigate. Students don’t lose their freedom of expression when they enter a public institution of higher learning. The First Amendment remains in full force. In fact, the Supreme Court has ruled that there is no place where “the vigilant protection of constitutional freedoms” is more vital. Justice William O. Douglas, a great champion of liberal causes, put it this way in 1952: “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." Why un-American? Because in our free and open democracy-there is no Ministry of Truth. The founding fathers felt so strongly about that they not only enshrined freedom of expression in the Bill of Rights, they put it first on the list. There is no right not to be offended, challenged, or made uncomfortable. In fact the Court has also ruled emphatically that jokes, satire, and parody are a critical category of protected speech. Does that mean that everything is permitted-even verbal harassment of other students? No, the Court has recognized that sexual harassment can threaten a person’s equal right to an education. But it has set a high standard for what counts as peer harassment in an educational setting: to be actionable discrimination, sexual harassment has to be “so severe, pervasive, and so objectively offensive that it can be said to deprive the victims of access to the educational opportunities or benefits provided by the school.” The vagina building joke in the Alaska student newspaper hardly qualifies.” America’s institutions of higher learning are becoming hostile environments for freedom. As the 2014 term began, a University of Missouri fraternity member dressed up as a Teletubby and paid a visit to an outdoor sorority rally and danced around near where the girls were standing. Concerned they might have a serious harassment issue on their hands, campus busybodies turned the Teletubby in to Title IX Coordinator Linda Bennet. To her credit, Bennet determined that his behavior did not constitute a Title IX violation. But at the same time, she sent around a memo warning students that they would be breaking the law if they engaged in activities such as telling off color jokes or making insulting sounds. Students were advised to police one another for infractions and report the names of violators to the authorities. This is not only madness. As Justice Douglas said, it is subversive and un-American. In our colleges and universities, campus officials are quietly amending the Constitution and creating their own definition of harassment and, free expression.
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"Check your constitution, not your privilege"
10/10
If students don’t begin to stand up for their rights, 2014-15 could be the year the freedom dies. #freespeech
(sarcasm) #killallfreespeech
American Enterprise Institute 'freedom' died in the USA in 1913, and again in 1933. sic Amend 16 & Federal Reserve Act
Itsmeeman1 It's a slow death, by a thousand cuts.
Why is it always someone from a gender studies background who becomes butt hurt? What's in this class?
Gender studies and Queer Theory teach you how to be a professional victim. I'm not joking.
A lot of half-truths, lies, manipulation, and telling women they're oppressed.
from what i hear mostly SJW's and feminist telling students that men have established a culture of hostility towards all women and anyone who disagrees is brainwashed by the patriarchy or a womanizing rapist misogynist
PATRIARCHY (R)
For those who are not religious, but still believe in original sin.
I've taken some classes that also count as gender studies classes, and there is a lot of crap in them. Even in the large amount of cultural studies classes I've taken, it's been taught that I, as a white heterosexual cis man, cannot understand the viewpoints of anyone else, besides for who I am, because I grew up with everything handed to me. Essentially, no one cares what I say, unless I'm agreeing, since I look the way I do. Also, that if I disagree I'm racist, sexist, and just evil. When ever the subjects come up and it hits that point, I just say "white devil, white devil".
George Orwell called it. I get the impression that colleges increasingly teach people what to think rather than how to think.
The one place you can (usually) find honest teaching of how to think is in philosophy classes, and to an extent the sciences. I just wish we taught kids philosophy before post-sec. Start in the second grade and teach them how to think rationally. They might as more questions in high school, but that's a good thing, if they can think rationally.
***** Over here in Norway we have some philosophy in school though it is in RLE (Religion, Life views (like humanism), ethics) though it isn't much but it is something
Jo Viljar Haugstulen
Something is better than nothing. Here in North America we have nothing. School is all about teaching what to think, unless you get lucky and have a really great teacher who uses the Socratic method. It doesn't stop until university...and then you end-up with piles of freshmen who have no goddamn clue how to survive, because they're actually being required to use reasoning skills instead of rote learning.
***** Well yeah... though most tests and such doesn't exactly help either as they mostly just require you to memorization (which is often forgotten soon after the test)
***** Agreed, and I think we need to be teaching Ethics to all kids.
If youre an American male and on a college campus, you need to be very very very careful about who you hook up with. Title IX is deadly serious about subverting due process and its in full effect - its not coming, its already here and on your campus. You can be accused without even knowing who your accuser is, investigated by a private committee not by a jury of your peers, found guilty under preponderance of evidence and not shadow of doubt as in normal courts, and summarily kicked off campus. This shit really happens every day, whether you did it or not.
"Turned him in to the Title 9 coordinator"....
Now does that sound like due process to you? Well thats what its become. Pregnancy is the least of your worries guys, dead serious.
I aint saying its right but it is what it is and anyone who read this cant say they didnt know now, you have been warned.
been there
YuenHsiaoTieng Et tu?
RE:Think I got accused of "stalking." I got the boot immediately. My advice is never piss off your girlfriend. She'll turn you in. I wasn't allowed to set foot on campus for the next two years.
YuenHsiaoTieng My ex told the school she felt uncomfortable with me living in dorms that was within the vicinity of her apartment - it was mandatory housing for freshman, she lived across the street by choice.. Forced to move out of dorms a semester early and find somewhere else. That was a cakewalk compared to what she did to me in highschool.
YuenHsiaoTieng You broke up with her, and she did that?
Thank you based mom!
She couldn't have done it without the guidance of your teachings good sir!
Thank you BUD7H357UD and remember always stay enlightened.
René Descartes and never forget the D
I don't recognize this locution as a sentence, and yet it has 109 "thumbs up". What am I missing?
My school has just lost it..
The amount of favoritism towards women is obvious the moment you step into any classroom.
Posters everywhere, bulletin boards with special programs specifically for women.
As a male, I didn't think anything of it at first but eventually I decided to do some research on it and oh my.. I just don't know what to do anymore, what can I do? I know that if I speak out I'll be immediately ruled out as a rape culture supporter or something. It's already happened to one of my friends when he protested the programs by posting his own flyers offering MEN and MEN only free lemonade. Might have been childish, but the flyers were taken down and he was disciplined heavily, even threatened to be removed from certain classes because they felt he might become a danger to the women inside these classes.
I like this woman.
Me too!
mrrepzion watches the factual feminist!
good to know
I agree, I really enjoyed her video on video games.
That's deeply sexist. lol.
I wonder if these feminists could be accused of continual harassment of male students for their activities?
Watch the Warren Farrel protest on youtube and tell me that isn't Harassment. And of course the feminists got off free.
Kikboxing Beneneh
Saw that. It's a good example of feminist harassment.
"harassment of male students"
lol male students can't be harrassed... you're so silly!
I've never seen a Feminist arrested at a protest, even after they hit someone. When that happens, they call the police themselves and cry sexual assault. Just like what Tinkerbell did to that Anti-Male Castration protestor.
Rohan Zener
No. That would be stupid. Hope you were being satirical.
Ah the Victorian era is reborn on college campuses. Gentlemen: do not speak brutishly or of off color subjects lest a member of the fair sex hears and become forever tainted.
I'm making a killing in smelling salts stocks.
Men shall now be seen not heard. The man shall need to ask for thy permission to speak when spoken to.... here we go, reverse the roles.
The fraternity keeps the basement locked. I live there, in a constant haze of alcohol and nicotine and opiates, with a greasy mess of hair and the same bloodstained, tattered suit. I live off of rotted meat and draw ancient occult symbols with the old vomit of young, foolish drunks, to bring forth demons into the human realm and release them from their infernal bondage to the Nine Rings of Hell!
All while listening to Kid Cudi.
Class Punk But they let you have a computer to write on YT videos. That's nice of them. lol
SubMan USN: No offence kind sir, but fuck all that bullshit! They can all get fucked! The day they start putting us on a pedestal? That's the day we'll consider considering what we say around their pathetic asses.
It's about time educational centers stopped treating students like high school teenagers and started treating them as ACTUAL ADULTS.
Seriously, you hit 18 years old you need to stop being treated as a child.
B--b-but common core! We have to lower our standards so everyone can pass!
_«Check your Constitution; not your priviledge.»_
I'm just glad my school's Young Americans for Freedom club is still up and running.
Let me tell you all a story from my junior high days which shows how dangerous radical feminism can be.
I was in the 8th grade, and I heard word of a new school program called "Techsploration" that was being established. This program was one where if you so chose you would be able to go to scientific workplaces and explore what people in those jobs did... but only if you were a girl. Yes, only girls were allowed under the premise that there were not as many girls in scientific/engineering professions, and there was no male equivalent to this program.
I was very interested in doing something like that, but because I was a guy I couldn't. I brought up the topic to a friend, venting about how unfair the program was, and then a teacher overheard. That teacher, not coincidentally one of those who organized Techsploration promptly interrupted the conversation and berated me for "my complete lack of respect for the plight of women in science" and mentioned the pay gap as well. She wasn't very nice about it either. Note that I was talking about how there should be a male equivalent to the club ONLY, not that Techsploration should be abolished or anything close to sexist comments. The teacher never showed respect for me again in classes, and people in Techsploration SOMEHOW got the idea to try and argue with me about Techsploration and give me nasty looks. When I brought it up at home I was still considered "in the wrong" for my opinions, which sort of made me feel like a bad person, like I "deserved" what I got.
Although I do credit my family for not bullying me about it beyond my confession, I certainly was bullied in the school for a long time, all because I dared to oppose the girls only club, because a TEACHER butted into a conversation between me and a good friend and presumably went on to demonize me for it (though it's possible that people in Techsploration simply overheard the teacher's loud shouting). I wasn't scarred for life or anything, but this ideology is certainly dangerous and has to be taken down a peg. Radical feminism practices what it claims it is fighting against, harassing innocents, and that is why I'll continue to oppose radical feminism until it's recognized by all to be the ridiculously stupid ideology that it is.
Thank you Factual Feminist, your work's significance is not lost on me and I support you.
You know, it's refreshing to see you ask for comments and feedback after each video. It stands in stark contrast to the closed comments and ratings of channels like Sarkeesian's.
It's brilliant really. After 4-5 years of this environment, they begin to think it normal.
"Woman should not be placed on a pedestal, they too are part of our society, with an equal stake at constitutional freedoms"
THIS is the equality, this I support, this I would raise my voice and hand for.
Any reasonable human being on this earth, that has a sense of empathy ought to understand and agree to this.
I'm surprised more people haven't spoken out about this openly. Colleges for decades on end, especially in the last decade has fomented a culture of hate and ridicule for anything that questioned the established norms of academia. If people think radical feminism is bad in mainstream media and on online platforms, they haven't seen anything yet.
Censorship in University under Feminist priority and self-governed thought police run be feminists makes it impossible to even question it without being attacked, and yelled at just for doubting their legitmacy. Instead of trying to justify their position for an honest discussion, they yell at you, harass you, call you slurs and do everything they claim to be the victims of.
This is why its harder for men to get girlfriends.You're either a mysoginist or invisible. Feminist run colleges tends to give me the impression of course, the automatic response is that due to all the male privilege I enjoy, I’m not able to perceive the plight of them being oppressed.
I'm scared of what to do after high school. I wanted to go to college so I could land a good job, but now I don't know what to do.
Is going to college for a job worth it if I could risk going to jail for a crime I didn't commit?
COYADD May as well get to a trade school and not mingle so much in schools with liberal arts. And always being careful as to knowing who you hang out with could help.
COYADD
trade schools are a definite plus. Not only do they care more about teaching you than changing the world, but the education you get is a lot more hands on, they're a lot cheaper, you get your degree quicker, and they tend to focus on classes that are actually pertinent to your career path.
At UNO a welding degree involves several credits in arts and foreign language for some reason, and takes 4 years to complete. The trade schools get you an apprentice certificate in a year and you can skip the math classes if you already know your shit.
The only risk is that you have to do your research first as there are a number of scam trade schools out there that will just rip you off, as well as garbage degrees which have saturated the job market to the point that you really wont be able to find work in that field. Culinary arts, garbage degree, welding, electrician, and to a certain extent CNA, all high demand.
Feminism is radical?
When I began to think that real feminism doesn´t exist.^^
This is form me real feminism not this bullshit now.
She's a dying breed.
I am watching your video's with my daughter. Thank you for all your work and research.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
East Asia is more liberal than American colleges, they'll cut off your head for actual crimes. Unlike feminism.
***** It's just a '1984' reference.
Miss Peori
Still true tho.
***** There's no benefit to men from marriage these days, only risk. Depending on where you live you can expect to eventually lose any kids you had together and at least half of the shit you own at the point of divorce at best, and all that plus half of the shit you make for the rest of her life too (and she's much more likely to out live you baring freak accidents, so it's really the rest of your life).
When I was younger I liked the idea of marriage, it seems pretty romantic after all, but it would be like holding a gun to my boyfriends head every day and I can't in good conscience do that. Hell, the current system encourages women to use that gun, not just keep it loaded under the pillow, which undermines relationships because instead of working at problems there's a tangible benefit to throwing in the towel and divorcing instead.
Marriage for men is like playing Texas Holdem with two jokers for hole cards... you get to play the hand but by the showdown you're almost guaranteed to lose everything you put in the pot, and the tiny amount of the time you don't you're only ever chopping it.
You're mistaken, Comrade. We've always been at war with Eurasia.
Students policing each other just for jokes? Well, Ceausescu would surely be proud.
At first I thought it was brilliant. Then I became profoundly sad as I realized that it is simply a reasonable view tempered by intelligence that should not be uncommon this day.
We're witnessing the murder of rationality, commited under the guise of good intentions.
Modern day feminists are burdening themselves with victimhood almost none of them have experienced and elevate simple life occurances to systematic oppression, while lashing out at anyone who disagrees or stands apart.
It's no wonder that movements such as MGTOW(Men Going Their Own Way) have surfaced as a response, where men protect and distance themselves from a society that portray them as villains.
LOLLL, the guy who dressed as the teletubby is a REAL WINNER! LOVE IT!
Shared this. We have exactly the same problem in the UK & the rest of Europe, progressive liberalism & political correctness has gone insane with inanities !
PuggiTheGreat Liberals are not liberal and the PC crowd are the most racist.
I offically like this channel. Free speak goes both ways, just as you can say anything you want, so can the people who disagree with you, or think differently than you.
I avoided college/university when I got out of highschool, and went straight into the workforce. And every day I am reminded that I have lost nothing.
It's true. At my campus, there are only certain places that people can demonstrate.
This is happening everywhere! I've watched Universities in my area act in ways that limit free speech.
My college is incredibly liberal. If you don't regurgitate their beliefs and ideas completely, or disagree or scrutinize them even in the slightest, they treat you like a monster. If you start to question fear-charged but nebulous and vague terms like Patriarchy or Rape Culture, the misogynist accusations and bigotry accusations begin. It's the worst in the game development majors, they reinforce a huge social justice agenda that you are never allowed to criticize. They condemn and silence differing perspectives and beliefs far more than any place in the world I've ever seen.
***** I'm sort of new to the whole sjw vs gamers controversy (started to get interested this summer) but I'm guessing that SJWs are taking control of video game academia just like they took control a while ago of cultural studies/journalism/communications. In a way it makes sense that they'd see video games and the cultural medium that needs to be conquered.
First thing, Leave, second thing, don't even bother with college, its just a shit stain
She a beast! She is straight up exposing these fools, I hope shes not trolling us
This women gets it and if I was an American and if this woman wanna run for president, I'll vote 100%
My campus has a designated "free speech zone" which is right outside the student center. There is always someone complaining about being "offended" by the presence of some group there. Whether it's pro-choice people feeling angry at pro-life groups, or atheists upset by religious organizations. When did tolerance begin to mean "if you disagree with me you're a bigot." These are university students, why aren't they being taught to think critically instead of dismissing and demonizing anything that they don't agree with?
because it is not on the test
Spot on! Amazing that the WAM folks have not attempted to remove your channel for being harassment.
This video needs a million views. Share this, NOW.
I have so much respect for this woman.
Free speech on campus is a joke. When I was in college, there was a group of students who wanted to make a Campaign for Liberty/Libertarian group/club. Well, in order to form a club, you had to have a full-time faculty member sign off on it.
Well, they actually asked every single full time faculty member there, and all of them refused to approve it, and the college absolutely refused to work around the rule. In my four years there, they never succeeded.
GOD SPEED BASED MOM. A hero to those fighting for logic over feelings.
Sued them for sexual harassment and accused them of promoting rape culture? I swear there's some kind of routine process for being offended as a feminist. I'm still trying to come up with a list. Anyone want to help?
>leave cakes and tea under a bridge
> capture evidence of trolls
> (optional) announce that officials have been contacted in the event of any perceived threat from said trolls
> (optional) announce current location of feminist in response to death threats
> threaten to sue for self-protection
> (optional) set up indiegogo/patreon account
> (optional) crowd-source lawsuit funds
> sue
> wait for SJW to write love letters to you (for optimal effect)
> ????
> profit
i'm more interested in how a man who does not subscribe to feminist ideology might escape their wrath though, but my list is currently empty.
My university campus is doing horribly It's gotten to the point where its idiotic. UVic is constantly criticized for being against all sorts of freedom of expression here in Canada.
So glad you know what "equality" actually is. Most feminists that I have run into on college campuses will say that they stand for equality, but they still want to be on a pedestal as well. That doesn't sound equal to me.
That woman filed a harassment charge at the campus newspaper? Well that's just special.
The Factual Feminist rocks! Go get 'em, Christina!
I fucking love this woman; why can't more people be like her?
2019 here. deep in the trenches.... 2018 was a dark year, hopefully we will rally ahead and make things make sense again.
I find this hugely ironic given the amount of nudity and vagina art on feminist blogs. "I am going to make a painting of a forest that looks like a vagina because the female body is beautiful" "how dare you propose that we build a building that looks like a vagina!? You're oppressing women!!!"
In his book, On Liberty, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is 'a peculiar evil'. If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the 'opportunity of exchanging error for truth'; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in 'its collision with error'. If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth. Mill also wrote, 'If society lets any considerable number of its members grow up as mere children, incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives, society has itself to blame.' Jefferson made the same point even more strongly: 'If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.' In a letter to Madison, he continued the thought: 'A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.'
I really can't understand how colleges of all places would end up being the places to restrict speech, thought and due process the most in the USA.
This is the first feminist series, I've come across, that takes an objective stance on subjects like this. I like it
Though I feel that the the severity of these censorship issues is overplayed, I do agree that they are cases of poor censorship judgement on the college's part. Maybe tone down the sensationalism a bit, and focus more on the facts? Regardless, fine work here, and thank you.
THANK YOU! I've now enjoyed several of your articles and videos. When a hot-button issue surrounding feminism is brought up, usually a lot of caustic vitriol and wild accusations are flung around on both sides. Your cool headed, fact based, well-sourced explanations are a soothing oasis. I look back on the past 20 years on all the junk philosophy and hysteria, which never made any sense to me, but I couldn't question it without risking ostracization as a misogynist. The way you cleanly clear away the jumble of misinformation is an enormous relief. I tell you, if all feminists were as thoughtful, judicious, rational, and downright pleasant as you are, I might have to become a feminist myself! Please keep up the wonderful work. I'm a newly minted fan.
brilliantly said....
And this is how freedom of speech dies... not with a bang but a whimper...
My university is absolutely guilty of this. About 5 years ago, the student paper made a marginally offensive joke about religion and there was a veritable shitstorm. Pretty much any "offensive" speech has been quashed since then.
what was the joke ? was it funny ?
The "1st" amendment is actually the 3rd item listed on the Bill of Rights in the National Archives, Washington D.C. The first item listed was never ratified, and the second item was 202 years in the ratification process.
I was at Mississippi State University. Knows as one of America's most conservative schools, they still were crazy feministic. I am glad I was friends were Christian girls.
Wait...wait...hold on a second!....they have University in Alaska??
nice to see someone who knows what shes talking about
I feel like my college experience was very freedom-of-speech/expression restricting. Despite going to a Catholic university (even though less than 40% were Catholic), I was criticized by most students for being Catholic. Muslim groups were celebrated. "Spiritual but not religious" was the norm. But Catholic?! How DARE you! And when I joined a pro-life (anti-death penalty, anti-abortion, anti-war,anti-euthanasia) club, I faced even more pressure to not discuss my personal views. Unless you agreed with the "majority" (read: loudest) students, you would be ridiculed in and out of class.
Whoa... a video that goes under the 'feminist' title but I agree with everything they say in it? How shocking to find such logic on the internet in this post-feminist narcissistic victim-culture age! Great video. Thank you for giving me hope that the ideology I once was proud to follow can be saved from the fanatics.
MAN... this woman ROCKS.
Why don't the colleges split off into gender dependent schools, since they are so concerned about the interaction between the sexes? Seriously - you pay enough to attend, but for them to come up with their own literal laws to govern you is just ridiculous - unconstitutional ones at that.
When you try to make something and make actual creations most people from your own background attack you. It happens and I dont even know why.
Same in the UK, Humankind not Mankind the only approved word in any essay; even in hard sciences. 'Bitches' is a banned word, this was four years ago; I suspect it's only gotten worse.
I love you. In the sense that I love a breath of fresh air and reason, who has to some degree helped to restore a smidgeon of my faith in humanity.
Minor correction: the First Amendment wasn't the _first_. It was the first to be ratified, but it was actually the _third_ in the original 12 amendments proposed as part of the Bill of Rights. The original _first_ amendment was never ratified, and the original _second_ amendment was eventually ratified as the 27th Amendment.
Sadly, you don't get a "Freedom of Speech" under a private institute. So they would have a write to silence things, but that should also mean they are disqualified from ANY government assistance/grant/research money. That would change everything, if they lost their money from the government for their actions.
The only feminist I know that I do like! Keep it up!
"Students policing each other?"
Seems a bit like the STASI.
Island of intolerance in the sea of freedom?
I think it's high time to send in the Marines!
I love your videos....
omg I feel off my chair when I saw the teletubby. LOLOL
Could you make some suggestions on what actions should be taken in order to promote freedom of speech and thought and to rescind practices of behavior and thought control?
My college has some of the hardest agenda-pushing I've ever seen. They have no problem spending numerous class sessions trying to tell is "Female genital mutilation isn't bad, it's just a cultural thing," or "Sharia law is just misunderstood," but if only you could see the hostility when someone dares think that things like "Patriarchy" and "Rape culture" might not be in enforcement in the United States. I take the time to hear out their ridiculous claims, the least they can do is offer me the same respect.
I have never experience freedom in this country! If I could move to New Zealand
I WOULD!
Good video
Sadly this infringement of freedom of speech is present here in England too. In my university's facebook page I posted a spiderman meme I found on the internet that I found rather amusing, where it stated "I'm seriously about to slap a bitch". Granted it was rather immature but I had seen far more vulgar content posted by my lecturers themselves. But said lecturers decided that it was "objectively offensive" and could be seen to constitute "sexual harrassment". When I came to my defense, saying it was not directed at anybody and how it was simply an amusing image, satiring Spider-Man (that might I add, was not created by me) I was also verbally abused by one of these lecturers who questioned why I defended myself (in spite of the fact that she attacked me and threatened to report me), then claimed that I sounded like a homophobe (don't see how, or why). I was then given an 18 month caution, showing how I am a "cause for concern" or something, which potential employers would see.
Absolute joke if you ask me.
2:00 interesting how it says "public figure" there... like, almost as if whatever came before it wouldn't apply to a non-public figure?
I don't think freedom will die outright, but I do think if students don't use their rights, they're gonna lose them. So glad I didn't have much to say in college.
This is why all women I date has to sign a forum in case they try legal stuff on me.
I would love to attend one of her lectures.
Another awesome video based mom.
I understand if a professor makes it clear that he (which can be used as a gender-neutral pronoun by the way. Just saying.) disapproves of such things in class and uses it as an excuse to drop a student out of the class, but it should not be used as an excuse to expel anyone from a campus. A campus is supposed to be open to all types of speech, even the sort of stupid ones. We are supposed to bounce ideas off of each other to grow mentally and possibly develop life-long views. Instead, many students would rather mob and gather in echo chambers than attempt to listen with those who disagree with them. There's just so much hatred around. Even if you can't love another person, you should at least try to respect another person.
I see this happening in my own university. To be frank, it's scary. One of the reasons minorities even come to the States is because of the free speech it has, and a lot of people don't appreciate that. Here, you can make fun of and criticize the people in power without fear of being executed, but many of my fellow students seem to want to take that away in the name of "security" or more accurately, "their own personal feelings" . As the child of immigrants, I want to help protect the first amendment.
You should see UofT. Sure, the videos of the protest against MRAs are well known, but there has been some far worse infringements since then. First, after the MRA protest, a member of the student union wrote an article saying that only progressive speech is protect. MRAs don't have protected speech because it wasn't progressive.
Also, to be part of the student union, you have to identify with a minority of some sort. Whether you are a black people, handicapped, woman, etc. This means that better qualified students can't enter purely because they can't identify as a minority. It's not like it's one of two type of minorities, but a large list full of categories. This leaves very limited seats that could be applied by anybody.
***** I read somewhere that classical liberalism was among other things about "majority rule and minority protection". The classical liberal ideal society was one in which the majority and the minorities compromised and recognized each other's interests. The majority legitimately ruled while promising to not oppress the minorities. Nowadays, the left is all about "minority rule". They literaly think only minorities should have a voice. If you want your voice to be heard, you need to move to a country where you're a minority. It's almost as if you had rights only in other people's houses and not in your own house.
Sadly so. I am now an old man. I went to Georgia Southern College in 1972. I had no one talking to me as you are now. That is where I developed my suspicions. It surely has been awhile. My suspicions have been confirmed over and over the years. Keep on talking.
I wore a t-shirt to school (for context, I'm pushing forty and I lost my patience with political correctness before most of my fellow students were born) that read "Proud To Be An American Atheists" which I purchased to show my support for the organization. I had stopped by the campus to drop off some paperwork and wasn't there to attend classes. While waiting on the line to hand in my forms, a school official came over to me an told me that I can wear that shirt on campus because it's offensive to religious people. Set aside the fact that it's a public college and freedom of speech is still a concept in America, I couldn't understand how being proud of my belief (or lack thereof) somehow offends someone else's. Would he have walked over to a Christian wearing a cross and told the person not to wear it because it might offend a Jewish people? Given my zero tolerance for garbage like that I informed him that not only was I going to continue to wear the shirt but that it'll be the only type of shirt I wear to school going forward. I put in an official complaint and was told that the person was being ridiculous and it was not a school policy but the fact remained that a school representative thought that it was. Unfortunately I literally had just one more class to attend so I couldn't make the type of protest I'd wanted to make but the fact that everyone is so quick to be offended by anything would almost offend me if I got offended. I would have to think very hard to remember a time when something offended me. Life is too short and those saying things that could be considered to be offensive ate ignored by me. To do otherwise gives that person the power they desired. If someone is trying to be offensive then I likely don't care for that person anyway and I'm not going to waste a second on them. I'll keep an ear out for those who might be saying things that can lead to actions that could be harmful but otherwise, I just don't care what people say.
Ed Gloss You make a good point. However, I would suggest to you that your "reverse situation" example is flawed. I doubt it has anything to do with offending Christians - that will probably get you a masters degree. The PC thought police were more likely worried about you offending Muslim students.
Feminism now appears to humor the notion that women are so frail as to feel violated at the mention of their anatomy.
Based Mom
The idea of students policing other students is pretty scary. I cant think of an example where a country has done that and has not been a thoroughly unpleasant place.
LOL, if the worst thing we have to complain about is someone dressing up like a teletubby, I think we're doing okay.
Based Mom is literally defending being Based in this Based video. I'm in Based overload right now.
It is not limited to college campuses.
If you want to learn about subversion see Yuri Bezmenov's "Deception was my job". He is KGB.
god bless this woman..
Based Mom you are awesome.
Students are encouraged to police one another?I think I heard that before.Ah yes:
"Detainees, who were subject to regular and severe beatings, were also required to engage in torturing each other, with the goal of discouraging past loyalties."
I know that it's not as severe(not even close) but this is getting dangerously out of hand.
4:42 Unfortunately that insular intolerance has seeped into the ocean in the 6 and a half years since this was recorded.
Based Mom is amazing.
Do you think the critical eye of the P.C is the reason why many think free speech has dwindled on campus; the fear of displeasing someone (like a minority, woman, homosexual, etc.) will make them report something small and blow it out of portion?
That would be something: student riots against over the top PC and 3rd wave feminism… I would have to say hats (fedora) off to them if they’d do…
i dont' know how to stop this. i'm sorry. i'm useless.