{"id":296428,"date":"2017-02-25T03:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/death-of-higher-ed\/"},"modified":"2017-02-25T03:29:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T02:29:07","slug":"death-of-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/death-of-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Higher Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Over the past year, an organization called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/\">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education<\/a> (FIRE) has been surveying college campuses around the country to assess how the liberal bastions of safe spaces handle reports of \u201chate speech\u201d (a.k.a. \u201cany opinion, or fact for that matter, that runs contrary to the widely accepted views of leftist professors and administrators\u201d).\u00a0 Apparently, and to our great shock no less, hundreds of college campuses all around the country have established so-called \u201cBias Response Teams\u201d tasked with the crucial responsibility of scrutinizing campus speech that may be deemed \u201chateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While FIRE published a very comprehensive, <a href=\"https:\/\/d28htnjz2elwuj.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/07011550\/2017-report-bias-reporting-systems.pdf\">35-page report<\/a> on the 230 \u201cBias Response Team\u201d systems they surveyed, below is just a taste of some of the atrocities they uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>The first example comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/3418842-Ohio-State-University-Build-the-Wall-Report.html\">Ohio State University<\/a>, where one precious snowflake was apparently appalled to discover that someone had written \u201cBuild the Wall\u201d on a class chalk board and brazenly left the vicious hate speech there for the world to see.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/gold-bullion-prices\/?utm_source=LRC&amp;utm_medium=textad&amp;utm_campaign=goldprices\">Current Prices on popular forms of Gold Bullion<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is chalk on the oval saying \u201c<strong>Build the Wall\u201d<\/strong> which <strong>could be construed as hate speech against Hispanic students and undocumented citizens.<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <strong>unsafe for the University community and cannot be allowed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, students at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganreview.com\/snow-penis-reported-as-bias-incident\/\">University of Michigan<\/a> were absolutely terrified of this \u2018snow penis.\u2019\u00a0 Of course, rather than simply demolish the phallus, the \u2018triggered\u2019 Michigan students were forced to alert the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a student humor publication (akin to The Onion) at the University of California San Diego called <a href=\"http:\/\/thekoala.org\/2015\/11\/16\/ucsd-unveils-new-dangerous-space-on-campus\/\">The Koala<\/a>, was recently censored for the following satirical article that was intended, ironically, to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/02\/tyler-durden\/death-higher-ed\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, an organization called the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has been surveying college campuses around the country to assess how the liberal bastions of safe spaces handle reports of \u201chate speech\u201d (a.k.a. \u201cany opinion, or fact for that matter, that runs contrary to the widely accepted views of leftist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}