Duke University Student Groups
Launch Word Police Campaign
by Warner Todd Huston 26 Apr 2014, 7:30 AM
PDT
A pair of student groups at North Carolina's Duke University
has launched a poster campaign to impress upon students that using some slang
words is not acceptable on campus.
With their "You
Don't Say" campaign, the
student organizations Think Before You Talk and the LGBTQ organization Blue
Devils United are trying to stop students from using slang such as "that's
retarded," or "that's gay" to
describe something that isn't cool. The campaign is also warning students not
to casually use the word "raped" to explain how something may have
been hard to do--such as "I was really raped by that term paper."
The campaign hopes to discourage the use
of words such as "pussy," "fag," "man up,"
"tranny," and "bitch."
One poster warns readers, "I don't
say 'Man up' because I don't believe in gender norms."
A second anti-"man up" poster
features a young female student and reads, "I don't say 'man up' because
the strongest people I know have cried in front of me, regardless of their age,
gender, or sex."
Another oddly claims that using the word
"bitch" somehow "insists that femininity is inherently
negative." It is strange that these students feel that the negative word
must apply to all women instead of merely describing a behavior.
One poster warns, "I don't say 'no
homo' because it limits the ways we express kindness to others and disfigures
the kindness of an entire group of people."
Yet another, even longer-winded poster
proves brevity is not the soul of this campaign.
"I don't say 'fag' because I wouldn't
say something that is tied so strongly to the pain and suffering of
others," it reads.
Along with funds for this campaign, LGBTQ
organization Blue Devils United was also the happy recipient of $3,335.49 from the Duke Student Government for the
"Lavender Ball and Drag Show."
Duke University
Goethe University
Frankfurt
History
The University of Frankfurt has at times
been considered liberal, or left-leaning, and has had a reputation for Jewish
and Marxist scholarship (or even Jewish-Marxist)[citation needed]. Thus, during
Nazi times, "almost one third of its academics and many of its students
were dismissed for racial and/or political reasons—more than at any other
German university"[citation needed]. It also played a major part in the
German student riots of 1968.
The University
of Frankfurt is historically best
known for the Institute for Social Research (founded 1924), institutional home
of the Frankfurt School, a preeminent 20th century school
of philosophy and social thought. Some of the University of Frankfurt
scholars are associated with this school, including Theodor Adorno, Max
Horkheimer, and Jürgen Habermas, as well as Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, and
Walter Benjamin[citation needed]. Others include the sociologist Karl Mannheim,
the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, the philosophers of religion Franz
Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich, the psychologist Max Wertheimer,
and the sociologist Norbert Elias[citation needed].
In recent years, Goethe University
has turned its attention especially to law, history and economics, creating new
institutes, such as the Institute for Law and Finance (ILF) and the Center for
Financial Studies (CFS)[citation needed]. One of the university's ambitions is
to become Germany's leading
university for finance and economics, given the school's proximity to one of Europe's financial centers.[5] The Goethe Business School
offers a M.B.A. program, in cooperation with Duke
University’s Fuqua School of Business. Goethe university has established an
international award for research in financial economics, the Deutsche Bank
Prize in Financial Economics.
Note: Fuqua
School of Business is a school at Duke University.
Tallman
Trask III was the EVP at Duke University,
and is a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
James
L. Vincent was a trustee at Duke University,
and a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
Jack
O. Bovender Jr. is a board of visitor’s member at the Fuqua School
of Business, a trustee at the Duke University,
and was a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
Ranjana
B. Clark is a board of visitor’s member at the Fuqua School
of Business, and was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Roy J.
Bostock was a board of visitor’s member at the Fuqua School
of Business, and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Carl T.
Camden was a board of visitor’s member at the Fuqua School
of Business, and is a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Committee
for Economic Development, the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Aspen Institute
(think tank), the International Rescue
Committee, and the Robin Hood Foundation.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Donna S.
Morea was a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group
Inc.
CGI
Group Inc. was the Obamacare
contractor that developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barack Obama
was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N.
Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R. Eden
Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Cyrus
F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Paul
M. Achleitner is a trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and the chairman for the Deutsche
Bank.
David
M. Rubenstein is a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a trustee at Duke University,
the president of the Economic Club of
Washington, and was a benefactor at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), an Oak Bluffs
(MA) homeowner, was the president of the Economic
Club of Washington, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Henry
Louis Gates Jr. was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a professor at Duke University,
is an Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowner, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Stephen
L. Carter is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner,
and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Robert K.
Steel is the chairman for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the chairman for Duke University.
David Gergen
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and a trustee at Duke University.
Paula
Hannaway Crown is a trustee at Duke University,
and married to James S. Crown.
James S.
Crown is married to Paula Hannaway Crown,
a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie
B. Jarrett is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
the senior adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E.
Jordan Jr.
Kathleen
Brown is a member of the Commercial Club
of Chicago, California state
government Governor Jerry Brown’s sister,
and was an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Walter
E. Dellinger III is a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP,
and a professor at Duke University.
Bruce A.
Karsh is a trustee at Duke University,
and was an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Thomas E. Donilon was a
partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, the
White House deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, was a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Derek
Douglas was an associate at O'Melveny & Myers LLP,
and a special assistant for urban affairs for the Barack Obama
administration.
Danielle
C. Gray was a lawyer at O'Melveny & Myers LLP,
and is the assistant to the president for the Barack Obama
administration.
Ronald
A. Klain was a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP,
the chief of staff to the vice president for the Barack Obama
administration, and is a trustee at the Third Way.
William
M. Daley is a trustee at the Third Way, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was the chief
of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Reynold Levy
was a trustee at the Third Way, an advisory board
member for the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and is an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee.
Clifford
S. Asness is a director at the International Rescue
Committee, supported same-sex marriage
in New York,
and a leadership council member for the Robin Hood Foundation.
Dina Dublon
is an overseer at the International Rescue
Committee, and a supervisory board member for the Deutsche Bank.
Alan D.
Schwartz is a director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
a trustee at Duke University,
and a board of visitor’s member at the Fuqua School of Business.
Fuqua
School of Business is a school at Duke University.
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