Bias Response Teams?

[Pete M]

What's New? Dave. College is a game. A class I took .Philosophy Whatever. A ball buster. I thought ,I knew . I raised my hand. The teach batted me down. A quote; "Are you doing this to ask questions?" Go from there.
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Oh come on. You never went to college!

 

[EasyAce]

And here I thought that the college atmosphere was intended to encourage alternative viewpoints and talking points from all sides of society's minds.

You must have slept through the past two decades plus. It's been a-bornin' since, little by little.

 

[Fiat Lux]

Before more of you gather your pitchforks at your local universities, they're not all bad

http://www.mndaily.com/article/2017/02/report-umns-bias-response-team-poses-little-concern-for-free-speech

Sorry, but I can't seem to find any comfort whatsoever in that tripe...

Cheers

 

[parts]

I thought this was going to be about 6L6 exchange...

But alas..

It isn't

 

[KP11520]

What's new? I don't know about you, but in my college days I could say something unpopular with the crowd and not be subject to penalties, or even a visit from the cops.

EXACTLY..... We'd be saying..... Bias THIS!

When exactly did everything go sideways?

 

[Deus Vult]

Chickens coming home to roost

 

[lancpudn]

Is that the new name for Stasi!

 

[MikeyTheCat]

So bias is a bad thing? I have a bias on almost anything, most people do, so what are they trying to police.
It's simple, free-speech is free-speech.

 

[45WinMag]

Well, then they're in heap big trouble. If they're a state university, or involve the police, then they're going to be nuked by the first judge that hears the inevitable First Amendment lawsuit. Even private universities that receive Federal funds (that is, almost all of them) have to play by attenuated Constitutional rules.

You're assuming that the judge is actually going to properly apply the First Amendment. It seems more likely that a judge will issue a predetermined ruling that allows a government entity (in this case, a University receiving government funds acting in collusion with law enforcement) to do whatever it wants, then make absurd contortions of legal thought (or just ignore the Constitution outright) in order to justify the predetermined outcome.

So bias is a bad thing? I have a bias on almost anything, most people do, so what are they trying to police.
It's simple, free-speech is free-speech.

Bias should only be policed in the actions and speech of the school administration and faculty, in order to avoid public funds being used for partisan indoctrination, not in the actions or speech of the student body. The students have every right to make biased statements.

 

[MikeyTheCat]

I was just reading that the SJW and Antifa groups like 1984, but it would also seem that their reading comprehension skills are lacking and their sense of irony is nonexistent.

 

[jeff_farkas]

Yeah, you read it right.

Some college campuses are forming "Bias Response Teams" to go after students who say something that might be judged by the current groupthink gurus as "hateful", "biased", "gender biased" "unpopular with the status-quo", whatever the group decides isn't in lock-step with their vision of society or the world. They (from what I heard) will come down on these individuals to impose whatever penalties they can come up with.

Wow.

And here I thought that the college atmosphere was intended to encourage alternative viewpoints and talking points from all sides of society's minds.

So, what will they wear? Will they have tactical vests with big, yellow cap letters depicting BRT on the back? Flash-bangs? Stun grenades and tasers? Carabiner hookups and rappeling harnesses for those well-dug in, hard to reach, bunkered-down commentators? Kevlar helmets and action cams?

-Hey, don't get political with this. The "BRT" thing is about all sort of bias, and the stifling of the opinions of students.

That sucks. '''Penalties''' What kind I wonder? Well.. if I were going back to college I would have to filter out those places from my list for certain.

 

[bulletproof]

Almost seems as if history is repeating itself.....

Red Guards (simplified Chinese: 红卫兵; traditional Chinese: 紅衛兵; pinyin: Hóng Wèibīng) were a fanatic student mass paramilitary social movement mobilized by Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the Cultural Revolution.[1] According to a Red Guard leader, the movement's aims were as follows:

Chairman Mao has defined our future as an armed revolutionary youth organization...So if Chairman Mao is our Red-Commander-in-Chief and we are his Red soldiers, who can stop us? First we will make China red from inside out and then we will help the working people of other countries make the world red...And then the whole universe.[2]






http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/01/23/265228870/chinese-red-guards-apologize-reopening-a-dark-chapter



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[I Break Things]

I can't stand all this PC idiocy. Call a spade a spade, or learn what a spade is to begin with. When did we stop settling little, petty disagreements with fist fights and start turning them into some stupid social movements? Anyone got a time machine? I don't like my generation. I'm too crotchety to be this young.

 

[Freddy G]

It's really too bad they shut MILO down with that witch hunt.
He was the biggest thing to happen for advocacy of free speech in college campuses in a generation. He really opened a lot of ears and eyes.

 

[EDS1275]

It's really too bad they shut MILO down with that witch hunt.
He was the biggest thing to happen for advocacy of free speech in college campuses in a generation. He really opened a lot of ears and eyes.

he was on bill maher last week. admittedly i never heard of the guy but from what i saw he came off as just some young millennial know it all faux outrage a**hole, only from the other direction.

imo, colleges should allow anyone a group wants to speak.... within reason of course... no kkk rallies please.... however, those folks on campus with opposing views to the speaker are perfectly fine to also attend and challenge during any Q&A period

 

[Freddy G]

he came off as just some young millennial know it all faux outrage a**hole, only from the other direction.

Oh he could could be offensive alright. And that was a big part of his point. But his logic and clear thinking rocked the "thought police" world....
Just check out some of his speeches and decide for yourself.

Here's a better example of a more serious interview than with Bill Maher:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJnBEOpN6A"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTJnBEOpN6A[/ame]

 

[Bill Hicklin]

Half a century ago, Berkeley students demonstrated for free speech. Today they demonstrate against it.



What's really funny is that the gormless "antifascists" (ha!) are fond of calling Milo a "Nazi"- yeah, a gay Jewish man who only dates black guys is a real poster child for the SA.

 

[EDS1275]

Is that real?? That sort of rioting just for that guy??? LOL, unbelievable!

I'll check out this guys act.

It's a shame though the left is getting broadbrushed in entirety by these millenial whiners and all this PC bulls***

 

[Tone deaf]

All the tube amps on campus should be performing optimally. Is the service free?

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

Does anyone else find it completely ironic that the very principles these people stand up for are the same ones they violate? Aren't these groups preaching tolerance while being totally intolerant of differing views? The hilarity of the situation is the only thing that keeps me semi sane in these times.

I've been saying that same thing since....oh....January 21st?