[godfather dust]

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/21174/

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‘Inclusive Language Campaign’ debuts at University of Michigan

Dozens of posters plastered across the University of Michigan caution students not to say things that might hurt others’ feelings, part of a new “Inclusive Language Campaign” at the state’s flagship public university that cost $16,000 to implement.

Words declared unacceptable through the campaign include “crazy,” “insane,” “retarded,” “gay,” “tranny,” “gypped,” “illegal alien,” “fag,” “ghetto” and “raghead.” Phrases such as “I want to die” and “that test raped me” are also verboten.

University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald told The College Fix in an email the campaign aims to “address campus climate by helping individuals understand that their words can impact someone and to encourage individuals to commit to creating a positive campus community.”ILCinside

Students have been asked to sign a pledge to “use inclusive language” and to help their peers “understand the importance of using inclusive language,” according to campaign materials.

Though only in existence for one semester, the Inclusive Language Campaign has maintained a strong presence throughout the university. Students roaming the campus frequently encounter posters of all sizes reminding them: “YOUR WORDS MATTER,” and asking questions such as: “If you knew that I grew up in poverty, would you still call things ‘ghetto’ and ‘ratchet’?”

Representatives of the Inclusive Language Campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment from The College Fix.

Junior Kidada Malloy, who helps promote the program on campus, told the Michigan Daily the campaign “is a great program because it will improve the day-to-day language of students on campus by providing education around words that are offensive.”

Fitzgerald told The College Fix the university budgeted $16,000 for the campaign. The program comes at a time when the university has raised tuition and fees for the last two consecutive years.

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“This program is intended to be educational, not regulatory,” Fitzgerald said of the campaign. “We hope there is only the understanding that we all participate in, and have the power to influence campus culture.”

ILC’s Facebook page includes a variety of inclusion-based material, inspirational quotes, personal stories, and even a video that details how to address a person by the correct pronouns. It operates in conjunction with two other campuswide initiatives, Expect Respect and Change It Up!, both of which emphasize inclusive words in and out of the classroom.

Students living in university housing are urged to take part in a Change It Up! workshop, which “brings bystander intervention skills to first-year housing residents for the purpose of building safe, inclusive, and respectful communities.”

Before and after completing these workshops, students fill out surveys in which they reflect on internal biases that may pose a threat to an “inclusive campus.”

As the Inclusive Language Campaign has enlarged its influence on campus through various kick-off events, interactive programming and provoking visuals, some students have called into question how it reconciles with the university’s policy on free speech, which “encourages open and vigorous discussion and strives to maintain an environment where the free exchange of ideas and opinions can flourish.”

Asked if the campaign stifles free speech, Fitzgerald said “we believe this program has just the opposite effect.”

“We believe it will make discourse more constructive by respecting the views and perspectives of others,” he said. “A campus conversation about the impact of words is good for everyone.”

The University of Maryland launched a similar campaign three years ago that cost $15,000.

Not much to say on this one, thought I'd share though.

[teh_skeeze]

So people are paying $50k on tuition, etc. and all I'm doing is going back to kindergarten.

[godfather dust]

The shitty thing is I'm planning on finishing my degree starting this fall, I'm terrified of getting thrown out of college for not towing the stalinist party line. I can only bite my tounge for so long.

[CactusCat589]

Year after year, tuition getting higher and higher because of this frivolous shit.

[scorpion]

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Words declared unacceptable through the campaign include “crazy,” “insane,” “retarded,” “gay,” “tranny,” “gypped,” “illegal alien,” “fag,” “ghetto” and “raghead.” Phrases such as “I want to die” and “that test raped me” are also verboten.

This shit is so crazy, I mean it's just fucking insanely retarded. These gays and trannys agitated to get this nonsense passed, and in the process have gypped us of our right to freely express ourselves. Meanwhile, illegal aliens are given college scholarships to absorb all this fag indoctrination even though no one from the ghetto buys into this shit at all, and ragheads continue to push Islam on gullible SJWs. They had to ban the phrase "that test raped me" because it was becoming obvious that tests were responsible for infinitely more cases of campus rape than fraternity brothers, and that was hurting their agenda. The situation is so absurd and the decline so depressing that one cannot but help to think: I want to die.

[wi30]

Best comment:

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Jim J. Flynn · Top Commenter · Washington, District of Columbia
This is so gay and retarded. I bet it was fabricated by tranny gypsies who are raping the students. F**k, I want to die when I read this. ;-)

[Grange]

Steven Pinker on the "euphemism treadmill" - http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-04...s-language

Steven Pinker Wrote:

The euphemism treadmill shows that concepts, not words, are in charge. Give a concept a new name, and the name becomes colored by the concept; the concept does not become freshened by the name. (We will know we have achieved equality and mutual respect when names for minorities stay put.)

[dads]

The more and more I read shit like this and work on my personal project, the less I want to go to college. Is there a place for a red pill guy in Academia these days?

[eljeffster]

I wrote a story for my creative writing class test where I totally got raped by that test and now I just want to die. My story was about a crazy-insane retard tranny who gypped an illegal alien raghead from the ghetto and turned the illegal into a fag.

[godfather dust]

(02-09-2015 08:36 PM)dads Wrote:  

The more and more I read shit like this and work on my personal project, the less I want to go to college. Is there a place for a red pill guy in Academia these days?

I wouldn't bother going back to college if I didn't have credits already, I'm asking myself the same question though.

[Grange]

(02-09-2015 08:36 PM)dads Wrote:  

The more and more I read shit like this and work on my personal project, the less I want to go to college. Is there a place for a red pill guy in Academia these days?

Just make sure you pick the right major. In science, finance, economics, etc. there's no room for feelings so you aren't surrounded by sob sisters all day long.

And bang off-campus. The Dept. of Education is increasingly hostile to the idea of the delicate female flowers under its care ever having to exercise good judgment and prefers to take it out on you.

[Veloce]

(02-09-2015 08:20 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

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Words declared unacceptable through the campaign include “crazy,” “insane,” “retarded,” “gay,” “tranny,” “gypped,” “illegal alien,” “fag,” “ghetto” and “raghead.” Phrases such as “I want to die” and “that test raped me” are also verboten.

This shit is so crazy, I mean it's just fucking insanely retarded. These gays and trannys agitated to get this nonsense passed, and in the process have gypped us of our right to freely express ourselves. Meanwhile, illegal aliens are given college scholarships to absorb all this fag indoctrination even though no one from the ghetto buys into this shit at all, and ragheads continue to push Islam on gullible SJWs. They had to ban the phrase "that test raped me" because it was becoming obvious that tests were responsible for infinitely more cases of campus rape than fraternity brothers, and that was hurting their agenda. The situation is so absurd and the decline so depressing that one cannot but help to think: I want to die.

[lowhead360]

$16 K could've sent two low-income students to school for a year. Instead they spend it on this.

Yeah, the left really cares about poor people....

[Troll King]

(02-09-2015 08:49 PM)godfather dust Wrote:  

(02-09-2015 08:36 PM)dads Wrote:  

The more and more I read shit like this and work on my personal project, the less I want to go to college. Is there a place for a red pill guy in Academia these days?

I wouldn't bother going back to college if I didn't have credits already, I'm asking myself the same question though.

If you have credits, then check out an online program. I will be getting a degree in Information Technology with a focus on Cyber/Information Security very soon because I went to a major state Uni, then took some time off, and transferred to a smaller, and Christian, school that has what has been a good online program.

They have a number of different majors. I chose the one I did because InfoSec is one of the tech fields that is in desperate need of workers. Just look at all the hacks from last year. And with the government especially, they aren't going to be hiring Chinese and Pakistani HB1 visas like they do with programmers (which is something I would not recommend with my program).

If anyone is interested, just PM me and I will send you the name of my University. I don't want to post it cause it is small and will give away my state.

A few details though. One of the things I like about the program is that many of the professors, in a similar fashion to Community Colleges, have worked in the field. My current professor, who has taught a number of my classes, is working on a PhD in the field and spent years working in the field for the Navy. Another thing is that we learn actual skills. To be clear, some of it is a bit dumbed down but even in the dumbed down classes you still have to put together presentations in a similar way that you would in the real world. Other classes are much more difficult.

Two examples. One class was a Cloud Computing Class. There was a lot of good info from the online resources and the book but some of the stuff was a bit stupid. For example, we had to create accounts at a lot of different cloud computing websites and upload some videos and share across the class as a number of assignments. So, unless you are a complete technonewb then this was a bit dumb in my opinion. However, we still had to do a class project and the project, like many other classes, was to put together a cloud solution package and presentation for ABC company with so many employees and requirements. So, that seems a lot more real world than when I used to give powerpoint presentations about Kantian Utilitarianism.

Currently I am taking a Computer Forensics class and it is quite challenging. I have been learning different techniques, and well I should clarify that I haven't really learned them yet in any real way because I am still a bit lost, for all kinds of stuff ranging from forensic protocals to how to recover data or hide data or access password lists and so on.

Another thing. At my institution you only take one class at a time and each class is accelerated at 5 weeks. You have to do online discussion boards, read the chapters, take weekly quizzes or tests, and do the homeworks and have it all done by sunday night. Actually usually the discussion boards are due on wens. Then most classes have some sort of individual/group project and some may require Skype or gotomeeting.

Overall, if I hadn't found this program I doubt I would have gone back to college. I know there are other programs out there too, because the government (USA) needs something like 80K workers in this field and they put a lot of money into a number of universities to create fast track programs to meet the demand.

Anyways. As far as this school, I wonder if they still have to read Animal Farm and 1984 in Comp 110/111 or English Lit? How does that go over?

Edit: fixed the quotes

[Sebastian]

you are mad about one campaign that you don't find interesting?
There are lots of programs, campaigns, workshops and events that is part of your tuition but you won't take advantage of and you don't have any interests in. That's what college is for.

You are upset about just $16k they are throwing? Look up how much they spend on Football department.
On average they spend $92k on every athletes (not just football) while they spend $14k on regular students.
Those are the things you can legitimately get upset about.

[fokker]

(02-09-2015 08:20 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

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Words declared unacceptable through the campaign include “crazy,” “insane,” “retarded,” “gay,” “tranny,” “gypped,” “illegal alien,” “fag,” “ghetto” and “raghead.” Phrases such as “I want to die” and “that test raped me” are also verboten.

This shit is so crazy, I mean it's just fucking insanely retarded. These gays and trannys agitated to get this nonsense passed, and in the process have gypped us of our right to freely express ourselves. Meanwhile, illegal aliens are given college scholarships to absorb all this fag indoctrination even though no one from the ghetto buys into this shit at all, and ragheads continue to push Islam on gullible SJWs. They had to ban the phrase "that test raped me" because it was becoming obvious that tests were responsible for infinitely more cases of campus rape than fraternity brothers, and that was hurting their agenda. The situation is so absurd and the decline so depressing that one cannot but help to think: I want to die.

[Hades]

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[Dusty]

(02-09-2015 08:20 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

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Words declared unacceptable through the campaign include “crazy,” “insane,” “retarded,” “gay,” “tranny,” “gypped,” “illegal alien,” “fag,” “ghetto” and “raghead.” Phrases such as “I want to die” and “that test raped me” are also verboten.

This shit is so crazy, I mean it's just fucking insanely retarded. These gays and trannys agitated to get this nonsense passed, and in the process have gypped us of our right to freely express ourselves. Meanwhile, illegal aliens are given college scholarships to absorb all this fag indoctrination even though no one from the ghetto buys into this shit at all, and ragheads continue to push Islam on gullible SJWs. They had to ban the phrase "that test raped me" because it was becoming obvious that tests were responsible for infinitely more cases of campus rape than fraternity brothers, and that was hurting their agenda. The situation is so absurd and the decline so depressing that one cannot but help to think: I want to die.