UM feels a lot like the USSR
The thought police are alive and well at the University of Michigan.
Take a close look at some of the university’s speech policies and you may feel like you’ve been transported back to East Germany or the USSR, where these regimes quashed dissent and were constantly listening for any contrary point of view.
UM’s campus conduct guide includes a “bias response team” that encourages students to report instances of speech they find offensive or troublesome. And guess what? They are relaying plenty of so-called abuses — anything that rubs against a campus culture that bows to political correctness.
Conservative students beware.
This framework serves to chill opposing views and has earned the university a federal lawsuit, filed earlier this month by a group called Speech First.
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