Virginian Pilot Misses Joe Stalin ... err... Gene Nichol

There are still quite a few people in Russia that miss Joe Stalin. And in this precinct of reality there are many who miss Gene Nichol, recently departed President of William and Mary. Joe Stalin departed on God’s initiative; Gene’s departure was occasioned by the W&M’s Board of Visitors decision not to renew his contract. Gene departed in a snit, not a coffin, but like Uncle Joe, he is well gone.

But he is mourned, and nowhere more heartily than on the editorial pages of the Virginian Pilot, which today mourns once again that the Forces of Darkness, those cursed blacks hats that waged a “conservative culture war” against Saint Gene whose only desire was to “open the campus.” Which he did by dissing it’s Christian community by deeming the symbol of their faith on display in their church so divisive that it had to be put in a closet lest it offend the unbelievers.

He also opened the campus to the thought police so prevalent on other campuses like Duke, where “enlightened” faculty and students tried to railroad the lacrosse team for a crime they did not commit. So Gene Nichol decided that the way to “open the campus” was to institute a way for students to snitch on each other if they felt dissed in any way. From the speech code:

A "bias incident" consists of harassment, intimidation or other hostile behavior that is directed at a member of the William and Mary community because of that person's race, sex (including pregnancy), age, color, disability, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status. A bias incident may be verbal (whether spoken or written) or physical.

If you are not certain whether an occurrence meets the above definition, please report the occurrence under this protocol and allow the College to make the determination.

Stanley Kurtz has this to say about Gene's initiative to "open the campus"

I’ve heard of speech codes, but I’ve never heard of anything quite like this: a mechanism to anonymously report "bias related to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or other protected conditions" to the university administration, for possible action against the perpetrator. This system has been set up at William and Mary, and a website protesting it can be found here. Is this something new, or at least rare, or is it perhaps more common than I realize?

But the Virginian Pilot editors are perfectly fine with this because this bit of Orwellian repression is part and parcel of the way Liberals run things. You’re permitted to say anything, anything at all as long as you agree with them and share their belief system. You don’t and it’s the Gulag for you. We make the rules, Comrade and if you don’t like it you are part of that gang the even now is viciously “attack[ing] him, his family and any student with the temerity to disagree with them.”

I can’t link to this odious editorial because the Pilot has not posted it on-line, but I’ll keep looking for it and if it shows up, you’ll see a link.