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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 13 2018, @08:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the should-have-seen-it-coming dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Thursday June 14 2018, @04:21PM (4 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday June 14 2018, @04:21PM (#692987) Journal
    "I know about Bret (note the spelling), but his little episode doesn't seem to have anything to do with feminism or totalitarianism."

    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?

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by mojo chan on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:15PM (3 children)

    by mojo chan (266) on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:15PM (#693016)

    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)

      by Arik (4543) on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:39PM (#693035) Journal
      He tried repeatedly over a period of months to talk about it. They responded by shouting him down, stalking him, physically shutting down the campus until he was pushed out... clearly you haven't actually bothered to watch 5 minutes of the videos that they themselves uploaded or you would know this. They were proud of themselves.
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      • (Score: 2) by mojo chan on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:45PM (1 child)

        by mojo chan (266) on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:45PM (#693038)

        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

          by Arik (4543) on Thursday June 14 2018, @06:03PM (#693054) Journal
          So wait, you're saying the protestors faked the videos they posted? Really? Do you have any proof of this? It would be a rather extraordinary length to go for no obvious gain but perhaps I'm missing something, if so please fill me in.

          "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.)

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