Fat Jokes Banned at Northwestern University
“harassing conduct that may create a hostile environment”
This is obviously a free speech issue, but it’s also a blow to humor. Who doesn’t like a good fat joke?
Campus Reform reports:
Northwestern University bans fat jokes
Northwestern University in Illinois has a policy to discipline community members who make weight-related jokes.
The restrictive provisions fall under the university’s “Policy on Discrimination, Harassment, and Sexual Misconduct,” as The Daily Caller reported.
“Northwestern prohibits discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ethnicity, caste, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, marital status, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status, genetic information, reproductive health decision making, height, weight, or any other classification protected by law,” the policy reads.
Making a joke about a person’s weight counts as “harassing conduct that may create a hostile environment,” according to Northwestern. “Displays or electronic transmission of derogatory, demeaning, or hostile materials related to one or more actual or perceived protected characteristics” also violate the school’s stipulations.
Disciplinary measures could potentially include verbal or written warnings from the school, forced counseling, “[r]equired training,” being put on probation, and suspension or expulsion from the school, among other measures. Professors could also have their tenure status taken away.
“This new policy is a heavy burden on free speech and has an extra-large chilling effect on campus culture,” Manhattan Institute official Ilya Shapiro told The Daily Caller about the university’s new policy. “You’d think Northwestern administrators would focus on weightier issues.”
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Don’t they have any heavier issues to weigh?
Oh, great. NOW I see it.
But it’s all good because you can still say “globalize the intafada,” “kill all zionists,” “Isra-hell”. “Jews go back to Poland” and “from the river to the sea,” so everyone take a deep breath, free speech (errr…. I mean correct speech against groups of privilege that we all should hate) is still safe at Northwestern.
Yo momma walks into a bar…
Illinois can’t support any more fat jokes anyway. They already have Pritzker.
The best fat joke of the year should now be honored with a Pritzker Award.
“Who doesn’t like a good fat joke?” But Pritzker is a _bad_ fat joke. Is he banned from the University?
C’mon people. Let’s be grownups and accept new realities:
Northwestern University is no longer healthy for American teenagers and other living things.
If you are between age ~17 and ~23, there are far better ways to spend your time and money . 🤦♂️
Apparently laughing is dangerous at Northwestern. Can Kamala take her campaign of joy there?
So no Pritzker jokes allowed.
Pritzker should be banned from campus for his own personal carbon footprint, which is the equivalent of 3 persons.
Except that weight is generally not considered an immutable characteristic, and is something that one has control over for most people. But lets encourage obesity and the higher morbidity that goes with it?
As a scientist, I would love to look at the body weight data for women who identify as lesbians, and to see how it changes as they either ‘come out” or “move to Portland.” Looking around the coffeeshop this morning, which has a fairly large sample population, my guess is that none of them have lost any weight since doing either of the above. My hypothesis is that many have found it far easier to either come out, move to Portland, or dye their hair some fluorescent color, than say, go to the gym. This will never happen, though, because we aren’t allowed to do real science any more. In contrast, I am fairly sure that I am a straight male, because I only spend about 5% of my day or less thinking about my appearance.
Larson was pretty spot-on when he published the “Nature’s Warning Signs” strip.
they fatten up to appear more male to their (hopefully) lipstick gf
the lists they have is usually
called out as censorship
come on gop !!!
Seems like a thing that an administrator would come up with.
Or a Task Force of administrators — all of whom have too much time on their hands.
Seriously — and people never seem to ask themselves why they need to pay tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars to send their children to places like this.
??To be warned formally in writing about things that all of us learned roughly right about when we learned to tie our shoelaces????
Is there any other school, institute, agency, or organization or social club anywhere else on earth that has a “fat joke” policy? In writing.
The writers for Monty Python wouldn’t have bothered with such nonsense.
The fundamental transformation of America continues
How fat is too fat for a fat joke? 15 lbs overweight, 25 lbs…? If your pants are tight or if your leggings have rolls?