Comments on: The FIRE launches national litigation effort against campus speech codes

By: Insufficiently Sensitive

Insufficiently Sensitive — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 23:59:33 +0000

The thought that ‘administrators’ outnumber teaching faculty on college campuses – and that they think up abuses of their petty powers as the MJC staff did – points to the need for some serious restructuring in the post-secondary education world.

Just limit the administrative budget to half of the teaching budget, for starters.

By: Observer

Observer — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 22:48:15 +0000

Great work by FIRE. It’s about time we started using the courts to push back against these fascists. Take a page from Alinsky’s manual and make them play by their own rules. They love intimidation by litigation, so give it to them — good and hard.

I’m going to go make a contribution to FIRE. This is an effort that deserves our support — financially and otherwise.

By: Immolate

Immolate — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 20:39:06 +0000

You have to admit, the US Constitution is a pretty radical document.

By: jennifer a johnson

jennifer a johnson — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 20:29:55 +0000

OBE subjected to PC would lead to a Humanist Utopian Caliphate which would then lead to despair, dystopia, nightmares, Newspeak and Victory Gin.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 19:18:28 +0000

I think the Campus Speech Codes should be recognized as the next stage of the targeting of values, attitudes, and beliefs via OBE in K-12. The consistent declaration among those wishing to use education for transformational change is that they want to foster a certain Worldview. Acceptable perspectives of how the world is to be perceived.

The Campus Speech Codes essentially dictate that anyone without the mandated Worldview needs to shut up. It is outrageous and I am glad FIRE is in this fight. The battleground though is the entire push to prescribe acceptable beliefs in the 21st century on the basis of what’s supposedly conducive to economic and social justice. I should know. I just finished reading Robert Dahl’s After the Revolution: Authority in a Good Society that could not have been more graphic on where this is all going.