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when the university implemented a bias reporting hotline, by which students can anonymously report professors and classmates for any number of viewpoint transgr

when the university implemented a bias reporting hotline, by which students can anonymously report professors and classmates for any number of viewpoint transgressions related to race, gender and orientation, real or perceived Sounds very east german to me. The cause of Professor Rectenwald’s guilt is certainly not, in our view, his identity as a cis, white, straight male. The cause of his guilt is the content and structure of his thinking.” These people think they're part of some Soviet kangaroo court. All these SJWs are just evil as far as I'm concerned. If they ever get real power, there would be a civil war.

actuallyalys 10y ago
Sounds very east german to me. They are not even remotely comparable. The East German government created a network of hundreds of thousands of informants, maintained a separate penal system for political prisoners, prevented citizens from leaving the country, and used information gathered from surveillance to systematically destroy dissidents' lives. The author of the article was put on paid leave for the remainder of the semester. It's unlikely that professors and classmates reported to the hotline would face even that.
- cmdrfred 10y ago
  I don't think the political prisons were built overnight. It was likely small, well meaning laws that slowly over time became corrupted. I can see the grandparents point. Reporting hotlines for things that are essentially thought crimes worry me.
tdb7893 10y ago
Any instances where people abuse this rule and use it to attack people that don't agree with them is a huge problem but in general trying to combat biases would seem to be a good thing for the institution. If you look at it this person seems to be trying to combat biases against conservatives so it seems weird to me that he seems to view the universities attempts to combat other biases as so nefarious. Also, civil or academic discourse should always have a place in college campuses but what this person said is definitely neither of those things.
- FrancoDiaz 10y ago
  ..combat biases Think about the implications of that at a deeper, rather than superficial, level. There's consequences for everything.
  - tdb7893 10y ago
    Biases are bad whether about conservatives or about LGBT people. I get that there are consequences for everything but the consequences for having less biases is a more open and fair academic system. EDIT: The stated purpose of it isn't bad and as long as it doesn't enforce specific biases instead of eliminating them then it's probably okay
    - FrancoDiaz 10y ago
      I think the people that are inventing this "bias reporting system" have horrible biases, and they only get worse as time goes along. The problem is that it's not a fair system. And everybody knows this, but obviously if you're the ones making the rules and the system is in your favor, you don't care. But the real problem is that there is no honesty in the discussions and arguments that SJWs and their sympathizers present.

actuallyalys 10y ago

Sounds very east german to me. They are not even remotely comparable. The East German government created a network of hundreds of thousands of informants, maintained a separate penal system for political prisoners, prevented citizens from leaving the country, and used information gathered from surveillance to systematically destroy dissidents' lives. The author of the article was put on paid leave for the remainder of the semester. It's unlikely that professors and classmates reported to the hotline would face even that.

cmdrfred 10y ago
I don't think the political prisons were built overnight. It was likely small, well meaning laws that slowly over time became corrupted. I can see the grandparents point. Reporting hotlines for things that are essentially thought crimes worry me.

tdb7893 10y ago

Any instances where people abuse this rule and use it to attack people that don't agree with them is a huge problem but in general trying to combat biases would seem to be a good thing for the institution. If you look at it this person seems to be trying to combat biases against conservatives so it seems weird to me that he seems to view the universities attempts to combat other biases as so nefarious. Also, civil or academic discourse should always have a place in college campuses but what this person said is definitely neither of those things.

FrancoDiaz 10y ago
..combat biases Think about the implications of that at a deeper, rather than superficial, level. There's consequences for everything.
- tdb7893 10y ago
  Biases are bad whether about conservatives or about LGBT people. I get that there are consequences for everything but the consequences for having less biases is a more open and fair academic system. EDIT: The stated purpose of it isn't bad and as long as it doesn't enforce specific biases instead of eliminating them then it's probably okay
  - FrancoDiaz 10y ago
    I think the people that are inventing this "bias reporting system" have horrible biases, and they only get worse as time goes along. The problem is that it's not a fair system. And everybody knows this, but obviously if you're the ones making the rules and the system is in your favor, you don't care. But the real problem is that there is no honesty in the discussions and arguments that SJWs and their sympathizers present.