The New Sickness On Campuses: Students Being Punished For Thought Crimes
Male students, for the most part, that is.
Peter Berkowitz writes in the WSJ of a male student at Yale who was punished for writing a class essay in which he condemned rape.
A fragile flower of a teaching assistant -- clearly drugged by the prevailing academic "progressivism" (in which mere words are said to give a person a woundiepoo) -- filed a complaint against the student.
There's also this:
Like dozens of lawsuits now working their way through state and federal courts, Doe v. Yale alleges that university officials grossly mishandled sexual-assault allegations. According to the complaint, a university panel found in spring 2014 that Doe had engaged in sexual intercourse with a woman without her consent. He alleges that the woman expressly consented and on that evening she harassed him. He adds that Yale's disciplinary procedures were stacked against him and administered by biased officials who presumed his guilt.
But getting to the essay thing:
This case also involves free expression because it began, Doe alleges, with Yale's draconian regulation of his speech. According to his lawsuit, in late 2013 a female philosophy teaching assistant filed a complaint with the university's Title IX office about a short paper Doe had written. In the context of Socrates ' account in Plato's "Republic" of the tripartite soul, the paper argued that rape was an irrational act in which the soul's appetitive and spirited parts overwhelm reason, which by right rules.According to the lawsuit, Pamela Schirmeister, Title IX coordinator and an associate dean in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, summoned Doe to her office and told him his rape example was "unnecessarily provocative." She ordered him to have no contact with the teaching assistant and directed him to attend sensitivity training at the university's mental-health center. She also informed him that he had become a "person of interest" to Yale, which meant that the university had to intervene to ensure he "was not a perpetrator himself," in the lawsuit's words. A few months later, the same Title IX office initiated the sexual-assault investigation against him.
Through a spokeswoman, Yale described the lawsuit as "legally baseless and factually inaccurate" but declined on confidentiality grounds to address any specific factual allegations.
If the lawsuit's account is accurate, Yale has reached a new low in the annals of campus policing of speech. Surely no female student would incur criticism, much less censorship or punishment, for providing weighty philosophical authority in support of the proposition that rape is wrong.
If Doe's story is true, Yale is no longer satisfied in enforcing correct opinions. To utter the correct opinion, Yale also demands that you be the correct sex. Far from protecting the right to "discuss the unmentionable" in accordance with the Woodward Report, Yale is stretching the boundaries of censorship by abridging the right to discuss even the uncontroversial.
via @AdamKissel
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KateC at April 2, 2017 11:02 PM
This seems preposterous. If true it means the world is really going crazy, much crazier than I thought.
Nelson Struck at April 3, 2017 4:47 AM
What type of creatures must these "women" be who need such an extreme degree of insulation and "protection"?
Pathetic doesn't even begin to describe it.
Why don't most women shout down these morons in order to salvage the reputation of the entire female sex?
Until then, respect for women? Sorry, no.
Jay R at April 3, 2017 2:11 PM
Obviously our betters think it best if you so-called "citizens" reported for a little
re-Neducation!
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at April 3, 2017 5:16 PM
Obviously our so-called "betters" are not.
MarkD at April 5, 2017 5:43 AM
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