University of Michigan implements "bias response teams." (link)

[Cosmos]

Anyone here have the courage to discuss this despite the real possibility of it getting booted to the Test Board?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bi...shareToken=st0f07f31f50d24a689f46869081b3ed7a

My take. Let's not let this trend of suppression of personal freedoms become another Pavlik Morozon, as we've seen such censorship before and what it leads to...

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pavlik-Morozov

Institutions of higher learning were once places of enlightenment and debate. What pray tell happened to us?

 

[PSU_sues_ncaa_big10]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html

 

[NittPicker]

Who determines if there is bias within bias response teams? Freeh was supposed to be unbiased and look how that went down.

 

[sluggo72]

What if the expression of a controversial or unpopular opinion bothers someone? Under the University of Michigan’s rules, “the most sensitive student on campus effectively dictates the terms under which others may speak,

 

[LionDeNittany]

Anyone here have the courage to discuss this despite the real possibility of it getting booted to the Test Board?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bi...shareToken=st0f07f31f50d24a689f46869081b3ed7a

My take. Let's not let this trend of suppression of personal freedoms become another Pavlik Morozon, as we've seen such censorship before and what it leads to...

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pavlik-Morozov

Institutions of higher learning were once places of enlightenment and debate. What pray tell happened to us?

Part of college IMO always involved saying extremely stupid things, and being corrected by your friends and others in a respectful manner. Then learning from that and not making the same mistake again.

The twitter mob has taken that away. This is just a further erosion of learning through mistakes.

LdN

 

[Cosmos]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html

Look, I don't know about all this hocus pocus, conspiracy theory bull$hit. All I'm saying is if young adults aren't exposed to conflicting ideas / opinions then what kind of a generation do we cultivate! Not to mention you, as a U of M student, should have the right to face your accuser. But no, they're allowing the accuser to remain anonymous.

 

[ChiTownLion]

All this accomplishes, IMO, is cranking the spring in a Jack-in-the-Box.

 

[heckmans]

Look, I don't know about all this hocus pocus, conspiracy theory bull$hit. All I'm saying is if young adults aren't exposed to conflicting ideas / opinions then what kind of a generation do we cultivate! Not to mention you, as a U of M student, should have the right to face your accuser. But no, they're allowing the accuser to remain anonymous.

^^^THIS^^^
But unfortunately, speech fascism isn't limited to scUM. It's on pretty much every campus including PSU. Many have these bias response groups and allow people to make anonymous claims about hurt feelings and ideas they don't like.

 

[cvilleelkscoach]

I guess they will be dispatched to my house because I’m clearly biased against that university and their athletic program specifically.

 

[fizzyskittles]

Look, I don't know about all this hocus pocus, conspiracy theory bull$hit. All I'm saying is if young adults aren't exposed to conflicting ideas / opinions then what kind of a generation do we cultivate! Not to mention you, as a U of M student, should have the right to face your accuser. But no, they're allowing the accuser to remain anonymous.

If you look at the speakers and writers listed in the article you will see that it has nothing to do with conspiracy theory stuff.

 

[fizzyskittles]

Look, I don't know about all this hocus pocus, conspiracy theory bull$hit. All I'm saying is if young adults aren't exposed to conflicting ideas / opinions then what kind of a generation do we cultivate! Not to mention you, as a U of M student, should have the right to face your accuser. But no, they're allowing the accuser to remain anonymous.

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[Obliviax]

The bias police are biased, by their very definition.

 

[michnittlion]

This team is conceptually like "campus kangaroo courts." Except with a different name.

I'm not one of her biggest fans, but Betsy DeVos is absolutely correct in her work to reverse the Obama administration's policies (the infamous "Dear Colleague" letter) that campus sexual misconduct cases could be decided by a "preponderance of the evidence" as opposed to "clear and convincing evidence." Her work is a big shot against the "campus kangaroo courts" that have been a scourge at many Universities over the past decade. At many universities, the deck has definitely become more and more stacked (to the point of unfairness) against students accused of sexual assault.

These "bias response teams" are basically the University of Michigan (and Michigan's not alone in this - 200 Universities have a "bias response team") finding another way to "hyper-regulate" student behavior.

 

[Nitwit97]

What if the expression of a controversial or unpopular opinion bothers someone? Under the University of Michigan’s rules, “the most sensitive student on campus effectively dictates the terms under which others may speak,

Welcome to 2018.

 

[mn78psu83]

Look, I don't know about all this hocus pocus, conspiracy theory bull$hit. All I'm saying is if young adults aren't exposed to conflicting ideas / opinions then what kind of a generation do we cultivate! Not to mention you, as a U of M student, should have the right to face your accuser. But no, they're allowing the accuser to remain anonymous.

Indeed. Not just exposed to conflicting opinions, but also understanding all of the arguments of their opponents. Not attempting to understand an opposing point of view is antithetical to becoming educated.

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”

― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

 

[Big 0]

Good thing I am not on a campus like this at this day and time. I would likely get in trouble more than once and if facing the tribunal I likely would tell them to F off.

 

[interrobang]

Penn State is biased unfairly against Coke products because they have Pepsi as a sponsor.

BIases are natural. Not all biases are in regards to race or gender or orientation.

 

[fizzyskittles]

Penn State is biased unfairly against Coke products because they have Pepsi as a sponsor.

BIases are natural. Not all biases are in regards to race or gender or orientation.

The old joke is maybe the person is just an asshole ? It’s lazy to assume a person disagrees because they’re an -ist.

 

[Keyser Soze 16801]

Anyone here have the courage to discuss this despite the real possibility of it getting booted to the Test Board?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bi...shareToken=st0f07f31f50d24a689f46869081b3ed7a

THIS ---> "One explanation for such absurdity is that Bias Response Teams are often composed of administrators whose jobs depend on the assumption that bias is widespread."

 

[michnittlion]

THIS ---> "One explanation for such absurdity is that Bias Response Teams are often composed of administrators whose jobs depend on the assumption that bias is widespread."

Yep. I worked at a place that hired a "Chief Diversity Officer" while I was there. My question - what if the workplace actually becomes 100% perfectly diverse? Then you don't need a Chief Diversity Officer, right?

So that person's job is literally built upon the assumption of "we are not diverse enough."

 

[Keyser Soze 16801]

Yep. I worked at a place that hired a "Chief Diversity Officer" while I was there. My question - what if the workplace actually becomes 100% perfectly diverse? Then you don't need a Chief Diversity Officer, right?

So that person's job is literally built upon the assumption of "we are not diverse enough."

And we never will be!