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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."

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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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