Free Speech is under assault

Here is a good example:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/22/the-university-of-california-s-insane-speech-police.html

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Fifty years after the birth of the free speech movement at the University of California, Berkeley, officials across the UC system are encouraging faculty and students to purge mundane, potentially offensive words and phrases from their vocabularies.

Administrators want members of campus to avoid the use of racist and sexist statements, though their notions about what kinds of statements qualify are completely bonkers. “America is a melting pot,” “Why are you so quiet?” and “I believe the most qualified person should get the job,” are all phrases that should raise red flags, according to the UC speech police.

Requests for faculty to quit perpetrating these teensiest of microaggressions are thankfully just that—requests—although the fact that they come straight from the desk of UC President Janet Napolitano lends them some muscle. On January 5, Napolitano dispatched letters to UC deans and department chairs inviting them to attend seminars “to foster informed conversation about the best way to build and nurture a productive academic climate.” That’s bureaucrat-speak for learn to keep your mouths shut.

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Saying, “There is only one race, the human race,” is offensive because it denies “the significance of a person of color’s racial/ethnic experience and history.”

“America is the land of opportunity,” implies that “People of color are lazy and/or incompetent and need to work harder.”

Asking an Asian, Latino, or Native American “why are you so quiet?” is tantamount to giving the order “assimilate to dominant culture.”

And stating the opinion, “Affirmative action is racist,” is a microaggression by default.

The term "microaggression" is becoming more common. Sad state of affairs but liberal universities are hell-bent on shutting out any and all reference to conservatism regardless of whether it is moderate or far right. They want their drones minds "clean"....

Take this pill comrade and stand in front of the wall.....

There's a nut case principal in oregon that thinks peanut butter and jelly is racist and a symbol for white privilege... you just can't make this crap up... lol.

PkrBum wrote:

There's a nut case principal in oregon that thinks peanut butter and jelly is racist and a symbol for white privilege... you just can't make this crap up... lol.

And the Hollywood elitist that wants Gone With the Wind banished and placed in a museum....you're right you can't make this crap up...and we are on a slippery slope of political correctness...

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/why-the-feds-are-going-after-reasoncom-commenters-and-what-it-means-for-free-speech

PkrBum wrote:

http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/why-the-feds-are-going-after-reasoncom-commenters-and-what-it-means-for-free-speech

I read on their website (Reason.com) yesterday that they were issued a gag order to not divulge anything about the subpoena.  The gag order came a few days after the subpoena and after they had already published everything.  Reason.com got the gag order lifted, I guess because there was nothing left to gag.

They expressed a concern that bullshit subpoenas are hidden by gag orders and they pondered just how many thousands of gag orders are issued in our so-called free and open country.