The sexual harassment scandals involving prominent Hollywood figures, media personalities and politicians has brought heightened awareness to the issue, but one public college appears to be taking things too far. At Tennessee State University in Nashville, “whistling in a suggestive manner” may qualify as sexual harassment and can get students expelled or employees fired. Those caught making “suggestive or insulting sounds” or making “suggestive or obscene gestures” also face similar consequences as well as students or staff who joke about sex on campus.
The rules are outlined in the university’s discrimination and harassment policy, which was obtained by a conservative journalism nonprofit dedicated to the principles of a free society. The group published an article on its website that reveals Tennessee State University has been blasted by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for several policies that allow free speech to be punished as harassment. With an undergraduate enrollment of about 7,000, the school’s policy lists nearly two dozen “offenses” that can constitute sexual harassment among students and employees. Cases are determined individually and the “totality of the circumstances” will be considered before deciding if sexual harassment has been committed.
The attorney who serves as vice president of FIRE’s policy research points out in the article that Tennessee State University’s policy doesn’t pass legal muster because it’s too ambiguous. Her name is Samantha Harris and she has degrees from two Ivy League universities, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. “Very broad categories of speech are banned as harassment, simply because someone might find them suggestively offensive and that’s something that courts have repeatedly held violates the first amendment,” Harris says in the story. Prohibitions on jokes and humor are dangerous because they could be abused to suppress unpopular speech involving political and social issues, Harris added. She also said that the school’s policy of banning any kind of demonstration during university events restricts students’ rights to protest and get their message across. Tennessee State also requires gatherings involving dissent to be registered with the vice president of student affairs to ensure the event is held at an acceptable time and appropriate site. That creates prior restraint on speech, according to FIRE’s legal expert.
Taxpayer-funded schools and colleges have taken an extreme leftist turn on several issues over the years and Judicial Watch has reported or taken legal action in several of the cases. This includes exposing a Mexican separatist school that pushes Marxism and Anti-Americanism in Los Angeles, pervasive corruption in Chicago public schools and an after school Satan club in Washington State that received speedy tax-exempt approval from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Judicial Watch is currently embroiled in a legal battle with the Berkeley Unified School District in California to obtain the records of a middle school teacher who is a national organizer for a radical leftist group. The teacher, Yvette Felarca, works at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School and is a prominent figure in By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), an organized militant group founded by the Marxist Revolutionary Workers League that uses raucous militant tactics to protest conservative speaking engagements. Over the summer Felarca was arrested and charged with several crimes, including felony assault, for inciting a riot in Sacramento. Judicial Watch wants records about the controversial teacher’s violent Antifa activism, which reportedly includes illegally recruiting students.
Judicial Watch has also sued to stop illegal immigrants from receiving taxpayer-funded discounted tuition at public universities and colleges and reported extensively on the issue. Last year Judicial Watch wrote about professors at a public university in south Florida that demanded the school protect illegal aliens by creating a “sanctuary campus.” The professors compared immigration enforcement to “fugitive slave laws.” At the time students at colleges around the nation requested their undocumented classmates be protected, but the Florida professors blazed the trail as the first faculty members of an American taxpayer-funded establishment to officially call for campus-wide sanctuary in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election.
How to become a racist homo phobe in one easy step- just whistle Dixie!
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Public University: If you didn’t have yourself castrated yet, you’re still a sexual predator, a rapist, a sexual harasser, and an abuser.
NO FEMALE ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET CAN BE SAFE UNTIL EVERY LAST TESTICLE IS CRUSHED INTO DUST.
It seems that’s what they’re going for, Jolly. So few see through it. If we bring things back to nature, the original intention of the creation, the male as counterpart to the female, shines in his glorious strength, a valuable and necessary LEADER. Of all the topics we cover here, this assault on males is the most difficult for me. To mess with this is to mess not only with survival but also with beauty. We can’t let them win.
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this is all going to backfire on the women in this country in a big way
if you were running a company , in the future would you hire any women ?
If a woman can claim someone sexually harassed her 30 -40 years ago , and no one asks ..why now come out with it ..but the women are to be believed , yet its her word against his but hes already guilty in the eyes of the public due to a smear ..
already many men have given up on the traditional marriage thing due to the lop sided courts and that the man most always loses .
just keep shooting your own foot off women , pretty soon there wont be a man to give a crap about a dam thing when it comes to you or your gender and or your needs
but than again they will never see that this now destruction to the trust between the genders , may have anything to do with their genders further survival in this new ugly world we are all living in
hope you really do like yer cats , because thats whos going to be taking care of everything for you, from here on out
……….notice how the focus has been switched from the exposure of pedophilia to the bullcrap of sexual harassment
Good observation
Fully agree. Good one, Mary.
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