desert dude
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348197/obama-administration-scraps-free-speech-campus
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In a letter from the Department of Education and the Department of Justice addressed to the University of Montana but explicitly intended as a blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country, the government has altered the legal meaning of the term sexual harassment. The new rule directly contravenes Supreme Court decisions and previous rulings from OCR that harassment must include something beyond the mere expression of views, words, symbols, or thoughts that some person finds offensive. The Supreme Court has ruled that to meet the test of sexual harassment, behavior must be severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive. Note the word objectively, meaning that a reasonable person similarly situated would be offended.
The reasonable-person standard is now gone. The new definition of sexual harassment decreed by the Obama administration is any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature including verbal conduct. The purported victim now has the power to decide whether a young man or woman (but its nearly always a man) is branded a sexual harasser. Its entirely subjective."
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In a letter from the Department of Education and the Department of Justice addressed to the University of Montana but explicitly intended as a blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country, the government has altered the legal meaning of the term sexual harassment. The new rule directly contravenes Supreme Court decisions and previous rulings from OCR that harassment must include something beyond the mere expression of views, words, symbols, or thoughts that some person finds offensive. The Supreme Court has ruled that to meet the test of sexual harassment, behavior must be severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive. Note the word objectively, meaning that a reasonable person similarly situated would be offended.
The reasonable-person standard is now gone. The new definition of sexual harassment decreed by the Obama administration is any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature including verbal conduct. The purported victim now has the power to decide whether a young man or woman (but its nearly always a man) is branded a sexual harasser. Its entirely subjective."
