In a move the notorious Stasi would applaud, a Massachusetts public school system is encouraging students, parents and staff members to rat each other out.
Crimes include: “bias” and “microaggressions,” saying the principal is “crazy,” mispronouncing names, and scheduling tests on “cultural holidays.”
According to the Daily Mail, Wellesley Public Schools represents 2,000 elementary pupils — 1,100 in middle school and 1,500 in high school — just outside of Boston.
And here comes the secret police.
The district introduced a policy called “Responding to Incidents of Bias or Discrimination” and it comes with complete instructions on how to be a stool pigeon — anonymously.
The Orwellian manifesto was obtained by Parents Defending Education.
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Nicole Neily, president and founder of the group, said the new rat line is designed to torpedo debate and discussion.
“Once made aware of these programs’ existence, most rational students simply refrain from discussing potentially controversial topics altogether out of an abundance of caution; as a result, whole lines of discussion and arguments that might be found on a nightly news show quietly and conveniently disappear from college campuses,” she wrote, in an op-ed in Real Clear Education.
“Bias response teams send a clear message not only that certain opinions are wrong but that the correct coping method, when confronted with such a situation, is to ‘go tell the grown-ups.'”
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The board’s secret police commandant is Dr Charmie Curry, of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
“Telling rude jokes that mock a protected group in person or through any electronic device,” is an example of a “bias-based incident,” as are using slurs, imitating someone with a disability, or imitating someone’s cultural norm or language.
One example of an offensive joke? Try this: “Henry is a math department head. At the school’s holiday party, he had fun telling jokes about Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims to other staff.”
Another example is given as: “Adam is in the high school cafeteria and jokingly turns to a friend and says, ‘I can say the n-word because my friend Bernice gave me a pass.'”
Punishment is execution. Only in their dreams.
Other schools in Maryland and Massachusetts have also instituted so-called Stasi rules, after the East German secret police of the same name.
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