Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech
Free Speech,Higher Education,Discrimination,Media Bias
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A group of Stanford University professors is pushing to end a system that allows students to anonymously report classmates for exhibiting discrimination or bias, saying it threatens free speech on campus.
The backlash began last month, when a student reading “Mein Kampf,” the autobiographical manifesto of Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, was reported through the school’s “Protected Identity Harm” system.
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