Feminists United, a student group at the University of Mary Washington, has claimed in a recently filed lawsuit that the administration failed to protect them from posts made on the anonymous social media app, Yik Yak.
The suit alleges that the university failed to protect the students by refusing to ban access to the app via the university's wifi system. The complaint ignores the reality that most students have access to the app via LTE internet service on their cellular devices, which would render a ban on the university's wifi system almost worthless.
The students claim that the university's decision to allow students to access the app via the school's wifi network fostered a hostile environment in which the students were subjected to "overtly and/or sexist/threatening" anonymous messages.
Writing on the lawsuit for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Susan Kruthargued that the university did not violate Title IX policies by refusing to act on comments made on the anonymous app, Yik Yak, which was recently shut down in May.
Writing to The College Fix, FIRE representative Daniel Burnett cited the 2003 Supreme Court caseVirginia v. Black, which claimed that "true threats" are defined by a communication in which there is a reasonable intention to commit an act of unlawful violence.Universities should respond to true threats and to serious allegations of sexual harassment, and they can provide non-punitive resources to people who encounter offensive speech. But to the extent that remarks are merely sexist or offensive, a public university must recognize that such language is protected under the First Amendment and decline to take unlawful steps to censor it. Throughout their complaint, the plaintiffs conflate alleged threats and a pattern of conduct that they claim deprived them of educational benefits with remarks or behavior that made them uncomfortable.
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This type of thing is really just the result of a central and technocratic government, establishing control (ie., via organization, corporation and a dominating hierarchy) and then selling and marketing its authority for what has been years and years and years now. Generations, in fact.
It is psychological warfare, where the phoney and the devious (mind control), is marketed as glorious and grand (freedom and -uhh- individual 'empowerment').
Feminism is a complete and total government invention, to increase its authority over people,
There may have actually been a few women, who were exceptional and brave individuals, at one time.
But that is long past.
It (feminism and a host of other such issues or movements) is about creating and maintaining a total human social dependency on a delusional scheme, with megalomania and domination and oppression at its core.
It is our world, it is our 'government' and it is getting worse.
Buy govenment now, believe govenment now, and pay later.
ned, out
Destroying the family and destroying local community are the two main goals of government.
I would say they have been reached.
Mind control (dependence on illicit government) is at about 99.9%
Get a haircut, get a uniform, get a university education and get a job. Work hard at that job. Do as you're told.
Repeat: Get a haircut, get a government unisex number (tattoo), a uniform, and proudly display your number and your uniform--that you received at the university--get a job and do your job.
Do your job.
Your job is to do your job.
Get a clean haircut, a monotone voice, invest in, purchase, a uniform, a total control uniform and get with it.
And show 'em your tattoo--your number..
That will prove it, that will prove your worth.
Make sure everyone else does too.
The same thing.
Achtung.
ned,
OUT