
As sexual harassment ‘blueprint’ restricts verbal conduct: Things Not To Say On Campus
Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-06-07 08:49
Article here. Excerpt:
'This is at best, badly written, and at worst, as the campus-individual-rights organization FIRE suggests, a disturbing expansion of suggested campus speech restrictions.
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Verbal conduct? Isn’t there another word for that? It’s on the tip of my tongue. Oh yes– “Speech.”
The “blueprint” also rejects the University’s “reasonable person” standard for sexual harassment, which makes things even more confusing.
Good news for English majors — the reading list just got a lot shorter. The list of books to which an unreasonable person might object because of their “verbal conduct” when it came to sex is — that’s pretty much the syllabus right there.'
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