Usually colleges require training on how to properly use pronouns, accept males with mental illness in their locker rooms, showers, and on their spots team, bow to minorities, and all sorts of Woke stuff
Pro-Palestine students sue Northwestern University over ‘coercive’ antisemitism training
Pro-Palestine students filed a Title VI lawsuit against Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, over claims that measures to combat antisemitism, including mandatory training, are “coercive and discriminatory.”
The federal class-action lawsuit was filed on October 15 on behalf of Northwestern Graduate Workers for Palestine (GW4P) and two affected students, named as Ifeayin Eziamaka Ogbuli (a second year doctoral student) and Marwa Tahboub (a fifth-year doctoral candidate).
The lawsuit alleges that the university has violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1866 “under the pretense of combating antisemitism.”
The suit lists several examples of measures taken against pro-Palestinian activism by the university which it considers to be oppressive.
The first is the use of campus police to “attack” student participants of a pro-Palestine encampment set up in April 2024. Northwestern University Police Department (NUPD) was instructed to crackdown on the protesters. Northwestern faculty and staff members intervened to protect the student encampment by linking arms around it. According to the suit, “the NUPD responded to the faculty and staff with excessive and unreasonable force and by filing criminal complaints against four of them.”
So, the Islamic extremists are upset over not being allowed to call for killing Jews and erasing Israel from the map? Not allowed to bully Jewish students?
The second example is the university’s alleged “yielding” to “unconstitutional governmental pressure to repress student speech.” This refers to a May 2023 decision by the House of Representatives to investigate Northwestern’s antisemitism, which in turn led Northwestern President Michael Schill to testify that the encampment was “antisemitic” and “pro-terror.”
Following the investigation, and the testimony of Schill, the university enacted policies to combat antisemitism, which the suit refers to as “policies to restrict students from expressions of national origin.”
They’re admitting that they hate Jews because of where the students filing the suit are from, and should be deported back to the Islamic nations. Would it be acceptable if there was a student group professing hatred of Blacks? Or, would the majority of students bully them off campus?
The suit adds that the “conceptualization of the Jewish right to self-determination is discriminatory.” The discussion of the antisemitism module of the mandatory training takes up five pages of the lawsuit, over five times more than any other of the stated examples of Title VI violations.
How about we deport these people? They have no place in a civilized nation.
… including mandatory training, are “coercive and discriminatory.”
HAHAHAHA. Of course they are. What part of the word “mandatory” were you not getting all this time? Mandatory training has always been coercive and discriminatory. It starts from the basis that you are wrong about something in your thoughts and words and someone else wants to punish you for thinking that way.
In this particular case, it is funny because one part of the Left is using it against another part of the Left. The Left is full of all sorts of mandatory training about their LGBTQ spectrum, race protections and special ways to look at and treat women. HR departments all over the Western world are famous for inflicting offenders with this training. In communist countries, you get mandatory training on class consciousness and party loyalty. Greater offenses get more “coercive and discriminatory” “inpatient” training options. This is the logical outcome of the roots of hate speech initiatives.
The Left needs to think about this carefully. Being coercive and discriminatory does not in itself make something unconstitutional or illegal. But if they go down this path, they risk getting a court decision striking down all of their similar mandatory training.