{"id":13759,"date":"2017-08-17T00:08:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T07:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13759"},"modified":"2017-08-17T00:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T07:08:23","slug":"quick-takes-shaping-the-new-new-soviet-person-political-litmus-tests-unlearning-safe-spaces-of-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/08\/17\/quick-takes-shaping-the-new-new-soviet-person-political-litmus-tests-unlearning-safe-spaces-of-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes &#8211; Shaping the New &#8220;New Soviet&#8221; Person: Political Litmus Tests; Unlearning; Safe Spaces of Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: All Your Minds Are Belong To Us<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vEfWPSG_a4w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Student government is supposed to be a chance for students to learn how to be independent leaders with their own ideas that have the support of the student body&#8230; well at least as long as those positions are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=9096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not doubleplusungood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Clemson administrator has proposed requiring student government candidates to pass an \u201cintercultural competency\u201d test before being permitted to run for or hold office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The &#8216;intercultural competency&#8217; test requirement for Student Government candidates who wish to run for office was just one of the ideas Altheia Richardson, Clemson\u2019s Director of the Gantt Multicultural Center, proposed in a recent presentation to Clemson Undergraduate Student Government (CUSG) Senate. As an alternative, Richardson also suggested group training for CUSG members once elected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;So when it comes to this whole idea of intercultural competence, what would it look like to have a standard for if you\u2019re going to be elected as an officer, or hold a seat within CUSG, that you have to demonstrate that you have a certain level of intercultural competence, before you\u2019re allowed to take that office, or that seat,&#8217; Richardson stated, according to CUSG Senate\u2019s public livestream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But what about those pesky students who don&#8217;t serve in &#8220;leadership&#8221;\/lapdog positions?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=9028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Re-education workshops<\/a> of course!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The University of Oklahoma is defending its decision to offer students in greek life a series of &#8216;unlearning&#8217; workshops on topics such as racism, sexism, ableism, and classism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;OU Student Affairs, the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program, and the Center for Social Justice are jointly sponsoring &#8216;Unlearning: Workshops for the Greek Community,&#8217; the first of which is scheduled to take place Friday, with seven additional sessions throughout April&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All this is building up to making college a safe-space for the proper ideas and where other doubleplusungood ideas are safe to censor&#8230; unless those pesky free speech advocates turn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=9070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leviathan&#8217;s power<\/a> against them!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Multiple state legislatures are considering bills that would guarantee First Amendment rights on campus. The University of Chicago, which has an institutional commitment to free speech, has even proposed hiring &#8216;free-speech deans&#8217; to serve as pseudo-bouncers at events to remove disruptive students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It\u2019s not enough, but it&#8217;s a start. Ideally, more universities should be working to educate their students on free speech, not slashing enrollment like UCLA\u2019s doing to a popular course on free speech in the workplace, where students are so eager to take the course that they are literally sitting in the aisles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Maybe if the University did so, they wouldn&#8217;t have students blocking access to books or disrupting speakers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;While all of these incidents may seem minor, today&#8217;s students are tomorrow\u2019s leaders. The first Millennials are now getting into Congress, and in a few decades\u2019 time, the Supreme Court\u2014which makes the rulings involving freedom of speech\u2014will be made up of Justices who were educated in this kind of environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;That&#8217;s a dark future for our freedom and one we ought to be fighting like hell to avoid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Shaping the New 'New Soviet' Person: Political Litmus Tests; Unlearning; Safe Spaces of Censorship\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"NEWARK - The guest list and parade of limousines with celebrities emerging from them seemed more suited to a red carpet event in Hollywood or New York than than a gritty stretch of Sussex Avenue near the former site of the James M. 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