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Humor is dangerous to your health...?
posted by Adam on 09:22 AM November 5th, 2004
News Gilligan writes "Here's another one from the halls of Political Correctness. Timothy Garneau posted fliers in his dorm which suggested that some of the women in the dorm could lose weight by taking the stairs instead of using the elevators. His intent was to humourously suggest a way to relieve congestion, since many students were using the elevators to go up one or two floors, and he lived on the seventh floor. UNH's Judicial & Mediation Programs Office initially found Garneau responsible for harassment, disorderly conduct, violating affirmative action policies and lying. The Judicial Affairs Office at the university found Garneau guilty of all charges, sentenced him to immediate expulsion from student housing and put him on probation through May 30, 2006. He was also required to meet with a counselor to discuss his actions, write a 3,000-word reflection paper about the session and write a letter of apology to residents of Stokes Hall. Fortunately, he was able to fight the sentence with the help of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and has since moved back into campus housing. You can read the entire article here: here"

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LMAO .... now they "can't talk about it" (Score:1)
by LSBeene on 05:14 PM November 5th, 2004 EST (#1)
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I LOVED this quote from the report:

Citing federal privacy law, UNH officials have declined to comment on Garneau's case. UNH President Ann Weaver Hart maintained that position yesterday.

Lol, like when they made an example of him, told details of his punishment, made all sorts of PC statements ..... but NOW, now that F.I.R.E. kicked their ASSES they "can't talk about it"

That's similar to Feminazi Speak:
"I won't dignify that with an answer"
(I don't HAVE an answer)

"Your comments are 'anti-woman'!"
(How dare you point out my duplicity!)

"We would like to comment, but men weren't part of the scope of this study"
(we disregarded men's pain and suffering. go fund your own fucking study)

They're eating crow and are hating it.

Oh, did anyone notice the woman in charge of Judicial Affairs?

"Esther Tardy-Wolfe, director of UNH's Judicial and Mediation Programs Office"

Esther hyphenated-I-own-my-own-set-of-balls feminazi.

(yes, that part was purely inflamatory)

Hope she likes eating crow. MMMmmmmm little femiazi .... how's it taste going down?

Steven
Guerilla Gender Warfare is just Hate Speech in polite text
does everyone want to become a lawyer? (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 05:17 PM November 5th, 2004 EST (#2)
I felt sorry for this guy at first but upon reading the article, a political science major wanting to become a lawyer hell I would not mind at all if they just kicked his ass out permanetly. I do not hate lawyers but there are way way too many of them and it seems people of all backgrounds and age groups want to become lawyers. People get laid off a job and decide to go to law school. There are more lawyer ads in the yellow pages than any other type of ads. I read about a guy, a former computer programmer, cannot find a new job so he is heading to law school,the board house wife finishes up her undergraduate degree and decides to go to law school. You get the point. Ladies and gentlemen, we need scientists and engineers in this country not more frequin lawyers. And these sceintists and engineers need to start business and make products so great the rest of the world just has to have them and ask us how we do it. Only then will we maybe start to create real jobs that pay great wages and benefits again instead of all these low paying service and retail junk jobs. Creating more lawyers is not the answer. I know, way way off topic but just could not help it. I have computer controlled automated machines in my shop that produce parts for the antennas we make. The machines are forign made, the automation electronics and software is from France, the other automation hardware is from Switzerland. Why the hell can't this stuff be made here. If we could exprot lawyers, well we would have enough in this country to supply the world at discount prices.

      Pete in Nebrasda
Success! (Score:1)
by Dave K on 05:48 PM November 5th, 2004 EST (#3)
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I've been following this story from the beginning a week or so ago. A HUGE thank-you goest to FIRE for defending this young man's right to free speech.

The UNH is an embarrasment, their campus paper prints anti male bigotry ad-nauseum, but when a student posts an immature but harmless flier that DARES to poke fun at WOMYN they act like he MURDERED someone.

LOL... they got to eat some crow there in the end though didn't they!

I raise my glass to FIRE, well done!
Dave K - A Radical Moderate
This is cause to celebrate!!!! (Score:1)
by MAUS on 05:51 PM November 5th, 2004 EST (#4)
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Right at this moment I have my stereo cranked and it's playing "Fire!!!" Let the word spread that unlike when I went to these feminazi biggot factories if you fuck with a male student folks from outside will read you the riot act. Want a little of my extra bitter goose/gander sauce with that crow??
Re: Also see FIRE'S speechcodes.org! (Score:2)
by Roy on 07:09 PM November 5th, 2004 EST (#5)
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FIRE has developed a great web resource for documenting feminist-PC intolerance and violations of free speech on college campuses.

On their site, you can instantly access all the relevant official codes that have been put in place to suppress free expression at thousands of universities.

Here's just a few highlights of the most grievous offending schools off the site:

• Bowdoin College has banned jokes and stories "experienced by others as harassing."
• Brown University has banned "verbal behavior" that produces "feelings of impotence, anger, or disenfranchisement," whether "intentional or unintentional."
• Colby College has outlawed speech that causes "a vague sense of danger" or a loss of "self-esteem."
• The University of Connecticut has outlawed "inconsiderate jokes," "stereotyping" and even "inappropriately directed laughter."
• The University of Buffalo Law School has limited student free speech by "the responsibility to promote equality and justice."
• Syracuse University has outlawed "offensive remarks...sexually suggestive staring...[and] sexual, sexist, or heterosexist remarks or jokes."
• West Virginia University would instruct incoming students and new faculty that they must "use language that is not gender specific...Instead of referring to anyone's romantic partner as girlfriend' or boyfriend,' use positive generic terms such as friend', lover,' or partner.'" Until recently, WVU enforced "free speech zones" (in reality, "censorship zones") that comprised only one percent of the public campus.
• Lastly, the University of North Dakota has criminalized as harassment anything that intentionally produces "psychological discomfort, embarrassment, or ridicule" (a category of no small scope).

Seems to me only Brown U. has the right idea, since they've banned "verbal behavior" that produces "feelings of impotence, anger, or disenfranchisement," whether "intentional or unintentional."

That would pretty much outlaw feminism in total, wouldn't it?

But seriously, note the implications of a legal system based on such concepts as "feelings, a vague sense,inappropriate laughter, suggestive staring, and psychological discomfort!"

Link at -- http://speechcodes.org/index.php


"It's a terrible thing ... living in fear." - Roy: hunted replicant, Blade Runner
Re: Also see FIRE'S speechcodes.org! (Score:1)
by crescentluna (evil_maiden @ yahoo.com) on 04:05 PM November 6th, 2004 EST (#10)
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Wow, if only I went to these schools, the amount of girls one could get expelled/suspended/whatevered. *rolls eyes* PC-ness sucks.
Re: Also see FIRE'S speechcodes.org! (Score:1)
by MAUS on 12:22 PM November 7th, 2004 EST (#11)
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My own version of this controversial poster would read like this:

"Notice to all obese, Jabba-the-Hutt sized Andrea Dworkin wannabees who have been streatching the steel cables that this poor overworked elevator run on...if you were to haul your fat lazy asses up the stairs now and then you just might whip yourselves into the sleek lean shape of a Doberperson bitch like Ti-Grace Aitkins which is more like what Nitwhitney Williams has as a role model."
Damn MUAS (Score:1)
by LSBeene on 08:35 PM November 7th, 2004 EST (#12)
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That was FUNNY!

Steven
Guerilla Gender Warfare is just Hate Speech in polite text
Re:Damn MUAS (Score:1)
by MAUS on 08:01 PM November 8th, 2004 EST (#13)
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Yeah Steve...I've been sent for sensitivity training a couple of times but I guess I'm something of a disappointment to those folks. When it comes to that double standard of feminists being as delicate as the dust on a butterfly's wing while men are open season for being blamed for everything from cancer to crop failure I'm about as sensitive as a toilet seat in the Grayhound station in Bangor.
A Good Book (Score:2)
by Thomas on 07:52 PM November 5th, 2004 EST (#6)
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Folks who are interested in PC tyranny on campuses should check out "The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses," by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate. I haven't finished it, but the parts that I've read are well written, extremely informative, and very disturbing.

The book's back jacket states: "Alan Charles Kors is professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and editor in chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Harvey A. Silverglate is a criminal defense attorney and civil liberties litigator who writes regular columns for the Boston Phoenix and the National Law Journal and has taught at Harvard Law School."

If your local library doesn't have it, ask them to order it. Any time I've asked a library to order a book, they've done so. After it arrives, they notify me, and I get to check it out first.

Thomas
-- Creating hostile environments for feminazis since the 1970s.

oh lord (Score:1)
by crescentluna (evil_maiden @ yahoo.com) on 04:52 AM November 6th, 2004 EST (#7)
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what the hell is wrong with people?? I'm going to go slam my head into a wall a few times. I have friends at UNH! well, not dorming, but attending! gguuurrrrhhh. :P What did he lie about, anyway? I thought the freshman 15 was a relatively well known fact, or at least urban legend enough to not be LYING, more like not knowing you had the wrong information - though maybe he was skewing towards females, I dunno. ANYWAY, my point was this was a moronic sentence for making a stupid flier - which, by the way, if it had been distributed by a well-intentioned female and was worded as:
"listen up girls! Lose weight, look great, take the stairs instead of holding up the elevator"
Nobody would care.
Re:oh lord (Score:1)
by Dave K on 12:22 PM November 6th, 2004 EST (#8)
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The young man claims that the RA or school official who accosted him was being VERY belligerant, and that he initially lied because he was afraid the official was going to attack him.

Regardless of whether he felt afraid for his safety or not... lying to an RA is not even a NOTEWORTHY offence, much less one a person should be sent to forced counseling for.
Dave K - A Radical Moderate
Re: Who Qualifies as aThreatened "Minority" Now? (Score:2)
by Roy on 01:44 PM November 6th, 2004 EST (#9)
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A quick glance at a random sample of campus speech codes (speechcodes.org) will show that the basic "rationale" behind these arguably illegal restrictions of free expression is to "protect" the sensibilities of groups defined as minorities.

(I'll skip my rant about how insulting and condescending this type of thinking is -- and how it so obviously treats campus minorities as infants who can't function without the protection of the Morality Police...)

Can anybody explain how WOMEN who, at 57% of total student enrollments now significantly outnumber men, still get to claim "minority" status?

Must be that Feminist Statistical Analysis 101 class I skipped!

 
"It's a terrible thing ... living in fear." - Roy: hunted replicant, Blade Runner
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