FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MANDATES Nationwide College Speechcode
Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 3:32 pm
http://thefire.org/article/15767.html
No, every student won't be a harasser. Obviously this is only going to apply to White males and conservative women and minorities. No liberal can be a harasser. This is right out of the Alinsky/Ayers playbook: broad language that can be selectively interpreted to attack your opposition.
I think the statement in red is false and maybe a little hysterical.In a letter sent yesterday to the University of Montana that explicitly states that it is intended as "a blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country," the Departments of Justice and Education have mandated a breathtakingly broad definition of sexual harassment that makes virtually every student in the United States a harasser while ignoring the First Amendment. The mandate applies to every college receiving federal funding—virtually every American institution of higher education nationwide, public or private.
The letter states that "sexual harassment should be more broadly defined as 'any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature'" including "verbal conduct" (that is, speech). It then explicitly states that allegedly harassing expression need not even be offensive to an "objectively reasonable person of the same gender in the same situation"—if the listener takes offense to sexually related speech for any reason, no matter how irrationally or unreasonably, the speaker may be punished.
No, every student won't be a harasser. Obviously this is only going to apply to White males and conservative women and minorities. No liberal can be a harasser. This is right out of the Alinsky/Ayers playbook: broad language that can be selectively interpreted to attack your opposition.