I’m starting off with this article I found:
Cal Poly Student Punished for Posting Flier
The story is a bit old but I came across it and as usual this stuff blows my mind.
Basically a Cal Poly Student is punished for posting a flier about an upcoming speech because it "offended" some people.
Now I’m a graphic designer and the only thing that offends me is the lack of design skill on this flyer .. haha
Cal Poly Student Punished for Posting Flier
Public University Gives Heckler’s Veto to Students Who Claim “Offense” SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA—In the spring of 2003, a student at the California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) was found guilty of “disruption” for posting a flier—in a public area—that some students found “offensive.” The public university placed unequal rights above the Bill of Rights. “Allowing some individuals to veto the protected expression of others is an unconscionable betrayal of Cal Poly’s moral and legal obligations,” said Thor L. Halvorssen, CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
On November 12, 2002, Steve Hinkle, an undergraduate and a member of the Cal Poly College Republicans (CPCR), posted fliers advertising a speech by Mason Weaver, author of It’s OK to Leave the Plantation. In that book, Weaver argues that dependence on the government puts many African-Americans in circumstances similar to slavery. Weaver’s speech was sponsored by both CPCR and the student government. The flier contained merely the title of the book, a photograph of the author (who is African-American), and the time and location of the speech.
To read more details about it you can also read the Washington Posts article.
Now he attempted to post the flyer in the Multicultural Center (MCC) at California State Polytechnic University—San Luis Obispo. Some of you might automatically think, "well he was asking for it" But think about it...isnt that sad? Won’t it be great when the day comes where no one will be saying "they asking for it" when someone is trying to excersize their free speech rights? Besides all that I don’t believe this guy was looking to offend anyone. He probably just wanted to get the word out.
About The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. It is a nonprofit educational foundation that unites civil rights and civil liberties leaders, scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals across the political and ideological spectrum on behalf of individual rights, freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, and due process on our nation’s campuses. FIRE’s efforts to preserve liberty at Cal Poly and elsewhere can be seen by visiting www.thefire.org.
Ok so where is this documentary you were talking about? Well I came across all that above after finding this independent film called “Brainwashing 101”
Filmmakers Evan Coyne Maloney, Stuart E. Browning and Blaine Greenberg are currently producing a feature-length documentary film (scheduled for release in 2005) exploring political correctness on college campuses. As an interim offering, the filmmakers have produced a 46-minute documentary film: Brainwashing 101
"Brainwashing 101," a guide to "speech codes" and political correctness on America’s college campuses.
Evan Coyne Maloney:
A year ago today, I was sitting in a car staking out Michael Moore, hoping to interview him about the documentary film business. Not only did I manage to get the interview, but I found Moore to be surprisingly encouraging to people like me who want to make films from a different perspective. Shortly after I posted the resulting video—entitled Michael Moore’s Call to Arms—
You can download and watch "Brainwashing 101," 46 minute preview here.
Yes Maloney is a conservative his blog is located here.
I encourage everyone to set their bias aside and take the time to hear him out and watch the video.
Also on the FIRE site I found a list of things to blow your mind in an article from 2003 archived on their site
I can’t help but feel that people who react this way are cowards and apparently worried their beliefs and ideas are so flawed that they can’t stand on their own.
Suppression, manipulation, censorship, peer pressure and force are desperate and cowardly ways to get people to believe as you do. It’s nothing but brainwashing people to think one way and to not think for themselves.
If what someone believes is truth and right then there should be no fear of it standing on its own; no need to suppress alternative views if you truly believe in your own ideas.