Earlier this year DePaul University was given the first-ever "Lifetime Censorship Award" by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education for its long, inglorious history of punishing and suppressing mostly conservative speech.
The nation's largest Catholic university – which doesn't want students to hear about radical Islam's threat to gay people, vandalism against pro-lifers or criticism of race preferences – has appeared with regularity on FIRE's annual list of the worst colleges for free speech.
[...] DePaul is slashing dozens of staff positions to "place the university in a better long-term position to invest in strategic growth," according to a statement to staff Thursday obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
The 62 full- and part-time staff members are mostly in administrative support roles, and they represent 3.5 percent of non-faculty workers. The statement didn't specify exact positions. The school avoided the ire of its faculty by sparing them any layoffs.
Source: https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/45753/
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Thursday June 14 2018, @09:16AM (9 children)
Do you even know what intersectionality is? How on earth could it be used to create "totalitarian leftism"?
Can you give a specific example of this?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Thursday June 14 2018, @09:18AM (8 children)
I already mentioned Brett Weinstein, clearly you haven't researched as suggested, here I'll save you some time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf5fAiXYr08
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Informative) by mojo chan on Thursday June 14 2018, @10:28AM (5 children)
I know about Bret (note the spelling), but his little episode doesn't seem to have anything to do with feminism or totalitarianism.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Thursday June 14 2018, @04:21PM (4 children)
Those students (and the professors who fed them their lines) were all acting in the name and speaking in the language of intersectionalist feminism.
You really don't understand that shutting down discussion like that is a hallmark of totalitarianism?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1, Troll) by mojo chan on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:15PM (3 children)
The only person who shut the discussion down was the guy who resigned and then started a lawsuit. Everyone else was talking about it.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Arik on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:39PM (2 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:45PM (1 child)
You know that the videos are fake news though, right?
You can't really base your assessment of an entire movement on some shitty YouTube videos.
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(Score: 1) by Arik on Thursday June 14 2018, @06:03PM
"You can't really base your assessment of an entire movement on some shitty YouTube videos."
I'm inclined to agree with you on that, I tend to prefer written sources myself. However the videos have a couple of advantages - in general, people other than myself seem much more likely to watch them than to read a long text I might send instead, and also specifically in this case, that appears to be one of the main ways that the movement we're talking about communicates and expresses itself today. There are many, many videos posted for each written article, at least so far as I've seen.
So sure, we don't want to rely on that single source (and I'm not) but on the other hand it hardly makes sense that you would investigate any movement properly by avoiding the places where it speaks. And while it shouldn't be read too deeply, there's *some* truth to the saying that pictures don't lie. Of course in reality we know videos can be faked, but if multiple people who were on the scene corroborate it then we have a very good reason to think it's not faked. Of course we can play certain tricks on the audience insofar as which direction we point the camera at what time, when we turn it on and off, and even moreso if we are able to edit it afterwards, but again tricks of that nature would probably be detectable in some way or another here, if only because there were so many people present who could speak up if that was the case. I'm not even really sure what you're alleging here. That the videos are CGI? Staged? Some of the people that cut them up and rebroadcast them are clearly ideologically driven nutters but that doesn't mean the underlying footage isn't real footage of a real event corroborated by many written sources (including several court papers filed under oath.)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:45PM (1 child)
Is that the dick who forced a bunch of actresses to show more flesh in movies and possibly give him a happy ending quid pro go?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @07:19PM
No, you're thinking of Harvey Weinstein.
Bret Weinstein was the Evergreen professor that got in trouble with the angry students of Evergreen for ...
... well, for telling them truths that they didn't want to hear, I guess.
I know quite a few greeners (that's Evergreen students, for those not familiar with their slang) and the reports have been pretty consistent: what's an loudly angry fringe in most colleges is the mainstream at Evergreen. They not only dropped off the edge of the political world, but went base jumping.