More 'poor baby' accommodations. Good thing today’s college students aren’t frequenting America’s
suburban driveways or playground blacktops. Fanciful chalk drawings and
scribbles are routinely found there — the handiwork, in most American
towns, of the happy-go-lucky pre-K set. But words or scribblings in colorful chalk are too much to ... MORE
Showing posts with label speech codes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speech codes. Show all posts
Deirdre Reilly: Chalk It Up To Lifelong Coddling
More 'poor baby' accommodations. Good thing today’s college students aren’t frequenting America’s
suburban driveways or playground blacktops. Fanciful chalk drawings and
scribbles are routinely found there — the handiwork, in most American
towns, of the happy-go-lucky pre-K set. But words or scribblings in colorful chalk are too much to ... MOREIndividualism & Capitalism vs. Marxian Gender & Race Conflict: Trigger Words And College Safe Spaces
by Richard Ebeling. The media has been full of stories recently about the new sensitivity on college and university campuses concerning the avoidance in courses or assignments of the use of “trigger words” or phrases that may have a “hurtful” affect on students when thoughtlessly used in the teaching environment. Student and other groups ... MOREFree Speech Is Very Threatened On Campus
by Conor Friedersdorf. At a recent Intelligence Squared debate,
an audience filled an auditorium at Yale University to weigh the timely
proposition, “Free speech is threatened on campus.” The debate
concerned higher education generally, not just the host institution. And
at the event’s conclusion, having heard arguments on both sides ... MOREThe Regrettable Decline Of Higher Learning
by Victor Davis Hanson. Political correctness has taken a toll. What do campus microaggressions, safe spaces, trigger warnings, speech codes, and censorship have to do with higher learning? American universities want it both ways. They expect unquestioned subsidized support from the public, but also to operate in a way impossible for anyone else. ... MOREDeana Chadwell: To Be, Or Not To Be Offended
NY's transgender nitwittery. New York City is proposing a $250,000 fine for using the wrong pronoun in reference to a transgendered person. Really?! How would you know which pronoun to use? Why would a he that used to be a she be upset if one slipped up and used the feminine pronoun? Accidents happen, especially where confusion abounds. ... MOREHow To Rescue Free Speech In American Academia
by Nat Hentoff. In last week’s column, I described how the national anti-free speech movement poses an imminent threat to freedom of expression in American academia. Those advocating for the anti-free speech movement attempt to interpret the “language of free speech” to their advantage so that it applies only to them, but not to ... MOREAlexandra Petri: In Defense Of Free Speech
A civil society does not require thought police. I think it’s a great mistake to write off what is happening on campus
right now as the demands of coddled youngsters for more coddling. Good
luck with that approach. We are going to outlive you. There is a much more serious discussion to be had. Forty percent of millennials favor ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Academic Fascism II
Anti-free speech and racist diversity policies. Last week's column highlighted college campus absurdities and the ongoing attack on free speech and plain common sense. As parents gear up to fork over $20,000 to $60,000 for college tuition, they might benefit from knowing what greets their youngsters. Deceitful college officials, who ... MORECollege Codes Make 'Color Blindness' A Microaggression
Inciting hyper racial consciousness. There are many mad and worrying things about the speech codes
spreading across campuses like a contagious brain funk. There's their
treatment of even everyday words as "problematic" terms of abuse.
There's the branding of the most anodyne forms of friendly banter as
"aggressive" (apparently it is a ... MOREThe Totalitarian Mind Set Of Hurt Feelings
by Scott Lazarowitz. Has freedom of speech become a thing of the past in America? College campuses now are intellectual prisons, and the thin-skinned offendotrons are the guards. And in post-9/11 America you can’t criticize the Regime without being called a “traitor” or “unpatriotic.” The political and social fascists and control freaks ... MOREMichael Beato: Political Correctness Hinders Truth Seeking
Of course, that's the whole point. The latest bout of collegiate outrage that has captured the nation’s attention surprisingly does not come from an offensive themed fraternity party, or an undergraduate bellowing “Don’t tase me, bro” during a political speech. No, the country is taking notice that institutions of higher education are ... MORE
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