Student kicked out of class for 'controversial' opinions on rape.

[JohnKreese]

he was no longer welcome to participate in the “conference”

The guy calls class discussions....conferences. As trivial and meaningless as it seems, this is really the only thing you need to know about how ridiculous the situation actually is.

Have you ever been on a "conference" call?

Sure. Do you think any of the kids at Reed College (OR) have?

 

[Sp5]

An odd development reported by the libertarian reason.com blog:

http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/19/male-students-non-pc-views-on-rape-stati

Did a Student's Non-PC Views on Rape Statistics Get Him Banned from Class? Maybe, Maybe Not.

Trigger warning: The ending of this story is pretty nuts.

Robby Soave|Mar. 19, 2015 5:07 pm

A male student at Reed College—a private liberal arts college in Oregon—says he was told not to return to his Humanities 110 discussion because his opinions about the prevalence of campus rape offended other people in the class. His professor, however, disputed that characterization of events in an exclusive statement to Reason.

Reached by email, the student refused to answer my questions and made the weirdest demand I've ever heard. More on that in a minute. . . .

Savery declined comment to BuzzFeed, but I was able to reach him via email. He confirmed that he was a "strong believer in the First Amendment," and maintained that the student's views were not the issue.

"He was not banned because of what he said but because of a series of disruptive behaviors," Savery told Reason.

I also reached True via email, and asked him whether he had been rowdy or disruptive in class. He responded by making a bizarre request. This was his email back to me:

Before I interview with you, you must agree to make "nigger" be the first word in your article.

I declined this ultimatum, and he declined to answer my questions. Needless to say, I've grown a lot more skeptical of True's side of the story. If I find out anything more that backs up either person's assertions about what happened, I'll update this story.

Maybe another example of the importance of maintaining skepticism on all stories. I hope the kid's ok.

 

[Simeon_Strangelight]

An odd development reported by the libertarian reason.com blog:

http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/19/male-students-non-pc-views-on-rape-stati

"He was not banned because of what he said but because of a series of disruptive behaviors," Savery told Reason.

I also reached True via email, and asked him whether he had been rowdy or disruptive in class. He responded by making a bizarre request. This was his email back to me:

Before I interview with you, you must agree to make "nigger" be the first word in your article.

I declined this ultimatum, and he declined to answer my questions. Needless to say, I've grown a lot more skeptical of True's side of the story. If I find out anything more that backs up either person's assertions about what happened, I'll update this story.

Maybe another example of the importance of maintaining skepticism on all stories. I hope the kid's ok.
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Well - that's rather bizarre, but on the other hand - he used the n-word anyway in the article.

He could have started it by:

""Nigger" - that's the first word I was supposed to use at the beginning of the article. It was a bizarre condition of the student who was allegedly banned for his non-PC talk about the rape-hysteria. "

Also he could have agreed and told him to publish a word-for-word transcript of his interview and he could say whatever he wanted in the first paragraph.

There are plenty of ways to circumvent those designs. While the demand is certainly strange, the email that the young man posted at his petition is well-versed and very lucid.

However that guy seems truly to be an extreme-out-of-the-box thinker:

http://www.reedquest.org/freshman-excluded-from-conference-petition-sparks-controversy/

“As soon as we started discussing Aristotle he said how did not believe that people who were drunk could not be held responsible for their actions, and similarly (in his line of logic), that racists could not be blamed for their actions because they had ‘never been taught otherwise,’” Maude-Griffin recalls.man-excluded-from-conference-petition-sparks-controversy/

Frankly universities need men like that and while he certainly seems a bit flamboyant, he was clearly rather banned for his views on the idiotic rape culture than anything else - this despite defending the Holocoust and even racism as a black man. I know that those topics may be sensitive but the truth remained that he was banned because of his views on "sexual assault" and triggering assault "survivors".

Maybe his strange demands were a strange way of saying Fuck-You to a journalist.

I think that the story seems to have merit since the university makes the same arguments as the SJW-Borg:

True distinguishes himself as a “freedom feminist,” differentiating himself from what he calls “toxic radical feminism,” which “speaks out against rape culture at the expense of men.”

Kate Hilts ’16 opposes True’s interpretation of feminism, and offers her own definition.

“Freedom feminism is not feminism,” she says. “Feminism is an understanding of the structures that oppress women and female-presenting people, and a belief that those structures should be dismantled. Freedom feminism is a soft term for a sub-category of men’s rights activism. Moreover, the existence of rape culture is indisputable. There is never any excuse for undermining the lived experience of survivors: academic, statistic, I don’t care. It’s inexcusable.”

True may have read about something called Freedom Feminism, but of course the current Nazi feminists are only calling it MRA-like feminism (may be about true equality) and are saying that Rape Culture is alive and well:

 

[BortimusPrime]

Interesting, this could be one of those cases where a kid goes to school with the idea that he's going to Dead Poet's Society/Good Will Hunting the stodgy academic environment, but ends up just acting like he has a screw loose.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

Petition only needs 43 more signatures... get that kid back in class you guys!!