If you are a parent of traditional and/or conservative values, and you are considering sending your children off to a public university (or are contemplating sending yourself off to such a school), both you and your child(ren) should first consider reading this book in its entirety, so that you may better understand your rights, and how they can potentially be violated without due process and without good reason. These ten chapters serve to unveil the culture of indoctrination, viewpoint discrimination, unjustified censorship, political correctness, politically-motivated coercion, suppression of dissenting voices and views, and intellectual bullying against students of mostly Christian/conservative background, committed by the intolerant leftist indoctrinators motivated by their leftist agendas to silence conservative speech, while they themselves (and those who agree with them, such as leftist students and left-leaning faculty) get blanket immunity and unrestrained license to pursue their own leftist political agenda advancement and pursuit of self-discovery unchecked and unchallenged, held accountable to no one but to themselves, at the expense of viewpoint discrimination, violation of freedom of speech, and denial of freedom of conscience against the conservatives whom they detest.
The gist of the book postulates that many public colleges, universities, and institutions have instituted unconstitutional speech codes, which while they may sound good on paper, are actually the instruments of viewpoint discrimination against those who are deemed unpopular (such as conservatives). While schools do have a legitimate responsibility to protect their children from bona fide harassment or bona fide discrimination, they also have a dual responsibility to respect the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of those who are largely unpopular "around here on campus," such as conservatives. The author has documented several frighteningly unreasonable cases where out-of-control administrators cross the line, sometimes wantonly, and turn it into indoctrination and "inquisition" against Christians/conservatives, without being able to prove any legitimate "harassment" or "discrimination" that would stand up to scrutiny if questioned in a court of law. Is there such a thing as a "right to not be offended?" Whose "right to not be offended" supersedes who else's? Why should only some groups (such as those favored by the left) be off-limits for criticism, while leftists can basically say whatever negative things they want about Christians and conservatives, and get away with it with little or no academic outrage or threats of academic retaliation? Liberals' definition of "harassment" and "discrimination" is not in line with the court-definition of such, nor is it line with what reasonable people would consider it to be. Liberals believe anyone who doesn't agree with them, and anyone who offends them by expressing "non-politically correct" views on campus (basically, anything that is not a liberal viewpoint) should be summarily expelled, detenured, or dismissed without due process, and this book definitely demonstrates that mentality through the evidence it presents, backed up by facts and stories of censorship and indoctrination.
These unconstitutional speech codes, "bias incident policies," and "offense policies" which institutions of multiculturalism and political correctness have adopted and now attempt to maintain, while well intentional and good-natured, often twist words like "discrimination" or "harassment" to mean something else entirely. They're trying to say, if you offend us or your classmates by being conservative and not liberal, you are guilty of so-called "discriminatory harassment" and will be subject to indoctrination and "re-education" to force you to "change your views," usually upon pain of some sort of academic retaliation, such as being expelled for the "crime" of being conservative. These unconstitutional policies, due to being vaguely worded and sometimes over-broad, are actually routinely and commonly abused by the militant leftist faculty and administrators who completely and utterly dominate the one-sided landscape of academia, to engage in irresponsible and irreparable harm against the conservatives whom they hate with a passion, and could probably never win a debate against were it a true marketplace of views. The author documents and demonstrates why being a "conservative loose on campus" is dangerous these days. This is a definite must read not only for Christians and conservatives, but also for people of other religious or political backgrounds who have suffered or seen others suffering from senseless censorship, or are being harassed and inquisitioned by the administrators, and are trying to understand why this is occurring, and most importantly what you can do about it, how you can fight back. The book contains strategies for how to deal with administrative attempts at indoctrination and viewpoint discrimination, while remaining within civil and legal bounds.
Don't ever let someone tell you that you have no First Amendment rights, or that their "community standards" supersede your rights and somehow "unprotect" constitutionally protected speech of ONLY conservatives who are unpopular. That is simply untrue. Without being able to prove disruption or bona fide harassment, they are WRONG to so much as threaten retaliation against a conservative who merely "offends" them or makes them "feel uncomfortable." Was this country not founded on a marketplace of viewpoints? This book will arm you to fight back against leftist political correctness and indoctrination, and their attempts to justify irreparable and often-times unlawful viewpoint discrimination.
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