Smith College Opens A Tattletale Phone Line So Students Can Snitch On Campus Speech Criminals
"Stop it! Don't! I'm telling!" is, understandably, a part of some kids' lives -- when they're 8. At 18, you'd think that proto-adult debating thingie would kick in.
Well, it used to.
But now, Smith College has eliminated the need to, you know, talk things out -- tell somebody when they're being kind of a dickbag -- with a 24/7 speech crime hotline.
Actually, there's more to it than speech crimes reporting. Toni Airaksinen reports at Campus Reform:
At Smith College, students now have access to an anonymous 24/7 bias hotline and online portal that can be used to report instances of bias, discrimination, and harassment....Yet while the administration has a positive view of the the new 24/7 reporting system, not all students do.
"There is a considerable risk that this will be abused by students since virtually anything could be reported on" Kira Barrett, a junior at Smith, told Campus Reform.
Barrett isn't only concerned with potential abuse of the reporting system, but with how it might effect free expression on campus, too.
If you want to express yourself, get a job as a plumber. College is not for free speech or free inquiry anymore; it's for indoctrination and kowtowing to SJW codes.
Modern-day witch hunt, anyone?
Stephen Wade has a suggestion -- in a comment at Campus Reform:
People need to call the hotline and absolutely inundate it with false reports. Completely overwhelm the system.
Hey, kids, aren't you glad you're paying that outrageous tuition -- to fund the squashing of your free speech rights and to allow unscrupulous students and easy, anonymous means of getting revenge?







Wonderful. Imagine the Progress that could be made if such a hotline could be implemented nationally - the 1-800-I-snitch hotline. If not by an act of Congress, then by executive order; or by new regulations based on a novel interpretation of some existing law. Make reporting suspected "abuse" and micro-abuse mandatory, with criminal penalties for failure to report, sort of like reporting suspected child abuse or neglect to the authorities is mandatory now for people in certain professions. Call it Hillary's Law; or name it after some other celebrity social justice warrior - or better yet, name it after a victim.
Imagine a more grown-up, mature Clinton administration - with Clinton executive orders, and Clinton appointed idealists in control of the Supreme Court, Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, Department of Justice and FBI, Department of Homeland Security, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Communications Commission, United Nations; in control of elections and counting the vote; in control of the police, guns, courts, jails and money of the government. The country would move in irreversible leaps and bounds towards shoving the physical and emotional safety and security of the socially just, Progressive-Utopian environment currently enjoyed by college students, down the throats of all Americans - whether you like it or not.
Imagine the progress that could be made if the right people win the election. I can't think of a better reason to vote against Donald Trump and donate to the Clinton Foundation.
Ken R at October 25, 2016 3:13 AM
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Well Ken R, we know that SOME Americans will not suffer. It just depends on who you know.
Bob in Texas at October 25, 2016 6:02 AM
I wouldn't say call in with false reports. But do call in with any slight you perceive to have been given. Be super sensitive when it comes to that.
Make the bureaucracy live according to its rules. And their rules: investigate, document, and file a report. This was a tactic of the refusniks who were sent to the gulag in the Soviet Union. The levers of gaining unearned power over others is not actually limited to class, race or sex. Use them.
Make them live by their rules. If they fail to do so, then hit them with a Title IX complaint. That'll get their attention faster than spilling a hot cup of coffee in their lap.
I R A Darth Aggie at October 25, 2016 7:06 AM
I looked up Smith College: a private women's college in Northhampton, Massachusetts.
Hey. they're already in violation of Title IX by refusing to admit men. Oh, don't give me that "they're private" blah blah blah. If cake bakers can be forced into baking cakes for clients they'd rather not do business with, then surely a institution of higher learning can not discriminate on the basis of sexual identity?
I R A Darth Aggie at October 25, 2016 7:18 AM
Smith admits men who "identify" as women
Nicolek at October 25, 2016 7:44 AM
"Smith admits men who 'identify' as women"
Do they really? Wow. This should be fun. I'll get the popcorn.
Cousin Dave at October 25, 2016 7:53 AM
Yes, I saw that, Nicolek.
I'm going to abuse that. Any time someone comes at me with "white male privilege" I'm gonna break down in faux tears and snivel that "today I identify as a woman, you dirty misogynist!"
I posted a link in yesterday's linky roundup to a story that the Vagina Monologues were no longer in favor because it presumes that to be a woman you need to have a vajayjay.
CD: if you're bringing the popcorn, bring enough for everyone. Wut?
I R A Darth Aggie at October 25, 2016 8:00 AM
Hey, kids, aren't you glad you're paying that outrageous tuition
Oh, only if they were.
Kevin at October 25, 2016 8:36 AM
Not much to see. The women who object have all been branded dirty TERFs. There was a flame war on the Smith alumnae facebook group and then a new moderator stepped in and we no longer talk about it.
The thing about Smith is as a women's college it ranks highly because it has cachet as a niche market, if it goes co-ed it will be a run of the mill school.
NicoleK at October 25, 2016 12:29 PM
TERF... had to look that one up. "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist." Interesting.
Cousin Dave at October 26, 2016 6:41 AM
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