Thursday, June 20, 2019

University hammered over 'Orwellian' move - WND

University hammered over 'Orwellian' move - WND:

Image result for free clip art No SpeakingA university in the United Kingdom has issued a new speech restriction – one that demands all references to the transgender lifestyle choice be “positive.”
And it’s catching major backlash from professors who describe the action as “Orwellian.”
The Christian Institute identified the school as the University of Sussex, which has decreed that transgender people can only be “positively represented” in classes on campus.
“The university has introduced a clause in its equality policy which says that ‘any materials within relevant courses and modules will positively represent trans people,'” the Institute said.
Philosophy professor Kathleen Stock, however, suggests that academics need “to be free to discuss concerns over men who identify as women having access to women’s prisons, hostels and rape crisis centers,” the Institute said.
“Universities should have policies that protect employees and students from discrimination,” she explained. “But policies which say you must always ‘positively represent’ a group of people clearly overstep the boundary.”
Such “repressive” ideas exert a “chilling effect” on speech, she warned.

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