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Wake Forest Double Standard

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Apparently, it’s anti-harassment policies don’t cover conservatives. “Wake Forest University claims to not allow verbal abuse that is ‘obscene, profane, or derogatory’ and the commission of any offense that is ‘motivated by the race or any other defining characteristic of an individual,'” Anthony Palumbo writes in The Wake Forest Review. “But when one writer for the Wake Forest Review faced persistent harassment at the intersection of race and politics, the Dean of Students Adam Goldstein and the Bias Response team chose not to enforce these rules against leftist students.”

“After two Wake Forest students handed senior Ryan Wolfe a box of saltine crackers and photo-shopped his face onto a cracker, Wolfe requested to open a judicial case under the verbal abuse and racial harassment policies.”

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Malcolm A. Kline
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail contact@academia.org.

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