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Lawrence Hall Jul 2021
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     Brandeis University Promulgates an Edict Against Thinking


   “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood
    and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education,
     the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”

                                  -Justice Brandeis, 1927


Addict homeless person ******* you guys
Rule of thumb picnic wife-beater trigger
Warning disabled victim survivor
Lame freshman spirit animal insane

Because

Potentially oppressive language gender
Exclusive ableist culturally appropriative
Terminology reinforce systems of violence
Identity-based language gender binary

Brandeis teaches a language of fear -
Scary enough at $60,000 a year!


Justice Brandeis on freedom of speech (bureaubrandeis.com)

Violent Language | Holding Ourselves Accountable | Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center | Brandeis University

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