badgenome said:
Anything that "offends" the wrong person, basically. There's a horrible arbitrariness to the whole thing. If you're seriously interested in what sort of things universities can get up to, you can check out thefire.org as they defend a lot of people whose rights have been squashed by ivory tower dickheads. For instance, a few years back a janitor (who was also a student) was fired from Purdue for reading during his lunch hour. It was a book about how some Notre Dame students fought the KKK back in the '20s, and a black woman who saw him reading the book was instantly offended and went and complained about racial harassment. Even though the guy made clear to his bosses the nature of the book, it didn't mean a fucking thing. A black person was offended, and we can't have that. Only the ACLU and FIRE getting involved eventually cleared the guy's name. |
lol, i read about that. his book had KKK in the title, and he was white. so therefor he is a racist.
unfortunately i will have to be tolerated this insolence, this coming fall.
also did you watch, those video links i posted, they are very good at showing what happens in acedemia.
in one of the videos there is a story not dis-similar to the KKK book one. the kid was posting flyers of a book titled its okay to leave the platation, authored by a black guy no less, but of course some one got offended, and as we no its illegal to offend. so the guy nearly got expelled
