RBP
04-10-2019, 12:26 PM
A student at Michigan State University filed a bias complaint against his roommate because he was watching a YouTube video of Ben Shapiro. Shockingly, administrators granted a room change request for the petty complaint.
Shapiro, a popular conservative pundit whose appearances on college campuses are often protested by liberal students, has countless viral videos and is by no means a radical figure. He is a conservative Jew who is editor-in-chief for the Daily Wire.
The College Fix obtained the actual complaint via a public records act request:
“Ben Shapiro is known for his inflammatory speech that criticizes and attacks the African American community,” the student wrote in his report against his roommate. “I thought hate had no place on MSU’s campus yet MSU has roomed me with someone who supports hate speach [sic].”
This report was just one of 35 filed with Michigan State’s “Public Incident” website in the fall semester of 2018.
This complaint about the Shapiro video is particularly alarming for a few reasons. First, it shows the intolerance towards conservative views on campus. But furthermore, it shows that students cannot watch a political video in the privacy of their own dorm room without being written up! This private act qualified as a “public incident” not only worthy of review, but of action from the housing administration.
Michigan State’s bias reporting system “allows anonymous students and faculty to report incidents, no matter how private, to the university for investigation and adjudication,” according to the Fix.
Other complaints through the bias system included:
A discarded game of “hangman” was left on a whiteboard in a residence hall; the word “SOUTH” was the last one played.
An MSU student posted a Snapchat video in which he says, “I hate white people.”
An MSU student found an Instagram photo where some young women were debating whether one of them looks “Indian” in the comments section. The women were not connected to MSU.
A student complained twice in three days that someone posted a cartoon making fun of liberals in a residence hall and it offended her.
A student used a residence hall list to e-mail her political beliefs to an entire dorm.
Shapiro, a popular conservative pundit whose appearances on college campuses are often protested by liberal students, has countless viral videos and is by no means a radical figure. He is a conservative Jew who is editor-in-chief for the Daily Wire.
The College Fix obtained the actual complaint via a public records act request:
“Ben Shapiro is known for his inflammatory speech that criticizes and attacks the African American community,” the student wrote in his report against his roommate. “I thought hate had no place on MSU’s campus yet MSU has roomed me with someone who supports hate speach [sic].”
This report was just one of 35 filed with Michigan State’s “Public Incident” website in the fall semester of 2018.
This complaint about the Shapiro video is particularly alarming for a few reasons. First, it shows the intolerance towards conservative views on campus. But furthermore, it shows that students cannot watch a political video in the privacy of their own dorm room without being written up! This private act qualified as a “public incident” not only worthy of review, but of action from the housing administration.
Michigan State’s bias reporting system “allows anonymous students and faculty to report incidents, no matter how private, to the university for investigation and adjudication,” according to the Fix.
Other complaints through the bias system included:
A discarded game of “hangman” was left on a whiteboard in a residence hall; the word “SOUTH” was the last one played.
An MSU student posted a Snapchat video in which he says, “I hate white people.”
An MSU student found an Instagram photo where some young women were debating whether one of them looks “Indian” in the comments section. The women were not connected to MSU.
A student complained twice in three days that someone posted a cartoon making fun of liberals in a residence hall and it offended her.
A student used a residence hall list to e-mail her political beliefs to an entire dorm.