Snowflakes Anonymous

[Hand]

The University of Michigan-Flint has launched a website where "students who experience any form of bias or micro-aggressions whatsoever" can tattle on members of their community.

In a campus-wide email sent Tuesday afternoon (and shared with the Washington Examiner), UM-Flint staff announced the new website and encouraged students, faculty and staff to begin reporting. They can even do so anonymously.

"At UM-Flint, we have a strong commitment to diversity and equity, and we strive to ensure that every student is able to participate and thrive in a culture of inclusion," the email said. "Reporting bias against students is important because it allows us to keep track of how individual students and groups are experiencing our campus community, and better positions us to provide closely informed responses that will ensure an optimal living and learning environment for everyone."

The entire community was called upon to report incidents of bias they witness, even if they weren't the recipient of the alleged bias. Adding in that reports can be done anonymously, UM-Flint could predictably become a hotbed of politically and personally motivated revenge reports.

UM-Flint surely had the best intentions when creating this website, but we've seen recently that if students are given an inch to voice their complaints, they will complain about anything and everything.

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[blue02hd]

Ummm,, wow.


What are they putting in the drinking water up there??

[PedOncoDoc]

Originally Posted by blue02hd

Ummm,, wow.


What are they putting in the drinking water up there??

I see what you did there....

Hopefully this backfires on them and the only reports are from a bunch of whiny white kids complaining their feelings get hurt any time someone tells them to "check their privilege".

[BrokenSwitch]

I never thought I'd see the day where I'd thank my English teacher for putting "The Crucible" in the curriculum (I already knew about McCarthyism from watching MASH and reading about the Manhattan Project).

On the other hand, the Athenians put Ostracism as part of their democratic society....

[WarriorDiplomat]

America going down the drain

Anti Gun laws is like OSHA for criminals

Transgender rights in public bathrooms is legal protection for sexual deviants to select their desired targets

Tattle tale sights is a tool for retribution for any real or perceived slight

Whats next NAMBLA given rights and protections??

In the words of Charlton Heston in the Planet of the Apes "IT'S A MAD HOUSE"

Ladies and gentleman this is the world with liberals in charge

[tonyz]

Universities appear to have become much larger incubators of insanity.

Let the indoctrination continue Head Start to Doctorate - cradle to grave - the apparatchiks are currently living a wet dream.

[Flagg]

New Cultural Revolution "struggle sessions" targeting for the internet age.

[Sigaba]

FYI... Source is here.

What is a Bias Incident?

Bias incidents are intentional and unintentional acts of oppression and marginalization that can interfere with student success and our broader efforts to build a climate that truly supports each and every individual student. Bias can occur on the basis of race, color, language, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, height, weight, veteran's status and other social identities and identity markers. While bias acts do not necessarily rise to the level of a crime, they can and often do negatively impact one's ability to comfortably thrive in their learning and enjoy their campus experience.

Threads at PS.COM that have discussed bias against current and former members of the American armed services...

http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...ad.php?t=43370
http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...ad.php?t=32476
http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...ad.php?t=24640

[Streck-Fu]

Hey, UM-Flint..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y

[tonyz]

Regarding "bias incidents" IMO vets deserve and have earned a certain measure of respect above and beyond a college fat privileged fuck bitching about no Starbucks in the gender neutral bathroom or that Ollie North was scheduled to speak on campus and some little turd was offended.

There is no comparison.

ETA: the Gen. Mattis thread reinforces what I was trying to point out...contrasting vets to the avg sniveling college kid...I love when the college kids prove me wrong. Sadly, even in my day many were self centered brats. Below are just snippets of wisdom the Gen. articulated much better than I.

"You, my fine veterans, are privileged that you will never face a judgment of having failed to live fully. For you young patriots were more concerned in living life fully than in your own longevity, freely facing daunting odds and the random nature of death and wounds on the battlefield....

Now, most of us lost friends, the best of friends, and we learned that war’s glory lay only in them—there is no other glory in warfare. They were friends who proved their manhood at age 18, before they could legally drink a beer. They were young men and women taking responsibility for their own actions, never playing the victim card. Rather, they took responsibility for their own reaction to adversity."

[Divemaster]

Here's the bio for one of UM-Flint's Bias Incident Reporting Committee:

Dr. Patel joined the University of Michigan-Flint campus in 2013 as Director of the Women’s Educational Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies and Organizational Leadership with an emphasis in Global Studies in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), an MA in Social Justice Education from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMASS), and BA in Sociology, Psychology and Secondary English Literature Education from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Dr. Patel’s dissertation research and publications contend centrally with ethical and political questions related to the persistence of racial inequality in US higher education.
Dr. Patel has worked domestically and internationally in the education sector for over 15 years. Her professional interests are deeply rooted in a 21st century vision for social justice and the practice of critical pedagogy. She is committed to projects that transform educational institutions by harnessing the generative and innovative potential of diversity and inclusion on the one hand, and removing barriers to educational access for low-income and identity-based groups on the other.
https://www.umflint.edu/wec/staff

Stellar academic credentials in worthy fields of study.

[Streck-Fu]

Deserves highlighting....

Dr. Patel’s dissertation research and publications contend centrally with ethical and political questions related to the persistence of racial inequality in US higher education.

[PedOncoDoc]

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

Deserves highlighting....

I googled "critical pedagogy" since I was not familiar with this term... what a wonderful progressive concept....

[Streck-Fu]

I never heard of it, either, until now.

Critical pedagogy is a teaching approach inspired by Marxist critical theory and other radical philosophies, which attempts to help students question and challenge posited "domination," and to undermine the beliefs and practices that are alleged to dominate.

And the other co-chair at UM-Flint:

Hiba Wehbe-Alamah, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, CTN-A
Associate Professor of Nursing

Dr. Wehbe-Alamah earned her PhD in Nursing and her Post Master’s in Transcultural Nursing from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Master of Science in Nursing (Family Nurse Practitioner Track) and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, Michigan.

A member of the Transcultural Nursing Society (TCNS), National American Arab Nurses Association (NAANA), National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF), Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners (MICNP), Michigan Nurses Association (MNA), American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), and a career-long member of Sigma Theta tau International, Dr. Wehbe-Alamah is nationally and internationally known for her contributions to Transcultural Nursing. She has presented, guest-lectured, and/or published in the United States, Australia, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. She is co-author of the third edition of Culture Care Diversity and Universality: A Worldwide Nursing Theory and is recognized by the Transcultural Nursing Society as a Transcultural nursing Scholar and a certified transcultural nurse-advanced.

She teaches nursing at the undergraduate, Master’s and doctoral levels focusing on women’s health and transcultural healthcare, conducts and chairs qualitative research and capstone projects with graduate nursing students, and advises students enrolled in undergraduate, Master’s and Doctoral programs. Her clinical practice centers on women’s health and the underinsured at the Saginaw County Department of Public Health.

Dr Wehbe-Alamah’s scholarly and research interests include obesity, women’s health, mental health, primary care, creative teaching methodologies, computer simulation games, technology use in the academic setting, African American and Middle Eastern health and well-being, health disparities, cultural healers and generic/folk beliefs and practices, and cultural competence for diverse healthcare providers, nursing students, practicing nurses, and nursing faculty.

[PedOncoDoc]

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

And the other co-chair at UM-Flint:

I often joked when in Michigan and taking care of Arabic patients who hung signs outside the room stated, "No male caregivers, please." that this was the impasse between sexual discrimination and cultural sensitivity.

The mothers didn't want to have to wear their hijab while staying in the hospital, but couldn't risk being seen without one by someone other than a family member or husband.

Now imagine replace "male" with "female", "gay", "black", or "Muslim" on that sign and the amount of uproar that would produce....