As colleges become more Stasi-like, students live in fear of being reported
A chilling piece in that it says out loud what many who have studied history are fearing. “I saw the horrors of the communist system up close,” economist and columnist Richard W. Rahn explains. “What I never anticipated was that..an enforced ideology would become the norm on many college campuses in the United States. Professors and others who have never directly experienced socialism and communism are indoctrinating students with utopian fantasies about how everyone could be equal if only capitalism were abolished.”
As he explains, “Real, free debate has been abolished in much of academia….Concepts like innocent until proven guilty and due process are ignored. Students are encouraged to provide anonymous reports on others… Like the Stasi, colleges now wishing to keep detailed records on student behaviors require large databases.”
Rahn cites Maxient, the contractor used by Stanford in its anonymous bias reporting sytem. “Maxient is one company willing to maintain and share secret files on students… Students are often unaware that negative reports have been filed on them, and constitutional due process protections are ignored at many colleges.”
Related:
Stanford Faculty Say Anonymous Student Bias Reports Threaten Free Speech [Harvard has them, too].
