UTK embarking on ‘thought control’
The gender-neutral speech article (Saturday, page B1) reveals a troubling policy in student indoctrination at University of Tennessee-Knoxville. The policy is an attempt by the director of UT Office for Diversity and Inclusion to impose thought control on students as a part of their academic career.
Encouraging students to treat each other with dignity and respect is not a bad thing. It should be the norm for the campus. But attempts at thought control in order to achieve even a commendable goal is nothing less than dictatorship.
Thought control has been the tool of choice for dictators throughout modern history; consider the successes of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism.
This is just one small incremental step to an American dictatorship. Our tax dollars to UTK must not be used to enslave.