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I know, it's too bad that racist, sexist and homophobic speech is being discouraged. The right are offended by this horrible change in social sensibilities.

Let's take a look at some of the papers, policies, and news coming out of University of Toronto and Ryerson in the fine city of Toronto. Sadly University of Toronto formerly was a beacon of free speech in Canada - it had a well known "Freedom of Speech" policy put in place in 1992 protecting free speech on campus which is now widely ignored (While they did support a "men's rights" speaker in 2015 and a pro-Israeli speaker previously - both which led to death threats, etc. across campus. - I will give the university credit for their stance in these events).

However the campuses in Canada have effectively banned anyone speaking about "men's issues", "pro-life" or pro-Israel points of view. Since any of these cause people to be "offended" on campus.

Of course, universities should be "safe spaces" and we never should have those "precious snowflakes" -- you know the university students exposed to words that may possibly offend them. (Hopefully you feel the dripping sarcasm.)

Employers very much desire to build bridges to universities to find great new hires for their organizations. This is often done via joint projects with students in classes, and presentations on campus. When employers need to worry that basic words commonly used in business presentations will "offend" students then companies get very skittish about exposing their employees to backlash and repercussions from campus visits.

This is unfortunate for these Canadian universities. Most of them provide very good education and students who add a lot of value to companies. They need to avoid foisting policies on employers that drive away recruiting and campus interactions.

http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/tafarodi/Papers/CDEMP2014.pdf

http://www.macleans.ca/education/un...for-forcing-student-to-apologize-to-students/

http://thevarsity.ca/2016/10/12/free-speech-rally-devolves-into-conflict-outbursts-of-violence/

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-c...ohn-carpay-fighting-for-free-speech-on-campus

Not that I can deny that U.S. universities are facing the same "micro-aggression" and "free speech" issues in recent years and are displaying the exact same issues as the Canadian schools.

The bottom line for universities there should be two rules:

• Don't piss off employers who recruit from your university.
• Don't piss off alumni who donate to your university.

Employers and alumni don't care if you have protests and counter-protests on campus over points of view (after all university students have done this for hundreds of years) - but don't put in place any policies that upset employers in their normal recruiting activities, or dismay the alumni (like allowing political protests at college sports events).

Setting up your campus to have policies enforcing "safe spaces" and limiting "micro-aggression" poorly prepares your students for post-college employment. Demanding that anyone visiting your campus including employers adhere to policies that limit non-offensive words used in normal communication is not beneficial to the university. Providing a list of words that cannot be spoken on campus is the height of absurdity.

P.S. - see if you can identify the banned words below:

"Good morning. Today I am going to talk about statistical decisioning research being done by our group in Israel. This group of men are in the forefront of this academic niche."