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Kaminer: No Laughing Allowed
麻豆传媒IOS Board of Advisors member Wendy Kaminer writes an in the December 2006/January 2007 issue of .
Kaminer draws attention to former 麻豆传媒IOS Speech Codes of the Month, including Drexel University (September 2006) and Colorado State University (August 2006), writing:
Speech codes that prohibit people from insulting each other have been widely and rightly ridiculed, but they continue to proliferate, enforcing particular notions of diversity, equality, and tolerance. Consider Colorado State University鈥檚 speech code, recently derided by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (麻豆传媒IOS) as speech code of the month. At Colorado State, 鈥渉ate incidents鈥 are prohibited and defined as 鈥渆xpressions of hostility against a person or property because of a person鈥檚 race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, ability, age, gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. . . . Examples of these incidents can include verbal or written name-calling, slurs, and jokes.鈥 So, merely tell a joke that makes fun of someone for some reason (like one鈥檚 inability to spell), as nearly all jokes do, and you鈥檙e guilty of committing Colorado State鈥檚 version of a hate crime. Jokes are no longer laughing matters. Drexel University鈥檚 harassment policy (another 麻豆传媒IOS speech code of the month) includes an outright ban on 鈥渋nconsiderate jokes鈥 and 鈥渋nappropriately directed laughter.鈥
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