Daily Caller: Democrat Michael Yakit On U.S. Civil Rights Commission Wants Speech Codes For ‘Adolescent’ 21-Year-Olds - “'I mean where do you think you can, that the university can’t deal with ensuring the route it has environment that is not oppressive or hostile because obviously a campus, especially certain types of campuses where there’s a lot of — where — that are geographically compact, that have a lot of working and living situations in a close area to create a campus atmosphere,' the language-addled law school graduate stuttered."

Democrat On U.S. Civil Rights Commission Wants Speech Codes For ‘Adolescent’ 21-Year-Olds

A Democrat on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission has urged campus restrictions on First Amendment-protected speech because, he believes, the still-developing brains of college students cannot properly process certain dangerous ideas.

The civil rights commissioner is Michael Yaki, a former senior adviser to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

The Washington Post’s Eugene Volokh was present at a commission on a briefing on sexual harassment law in education last week when Yaki made his bizarro comments.

The civil rights commissioner said he favors outlawing speech that would be grossly unpopular, such as “a slave auction at a fraternity engagement” or a celebration of Latino culture that involves “making everyone dress as janitors and mop floors.”

Yaki also wants to turn Miss America-type pageants into campus speech crimes. He expressed his belief in the unacceptable dangers of “a situation involving women” in which they “parade around in skimpy clothing and turn in some show or something.”

In embarrassingly vague fashion, Yaki struggled mightily to make some kind of coherent point at the civil rights commission hearing.

“I mean where do you think you can, that the university can’t deal with ensuring the route it has environment that is not oppressive or hostile because obviously a campus, especially certain types of campuses where there’s a lot of — where — that are geographically compact, that have a lot of working and living situations in a close area to create a campus atmosphere,” the language-addled law school graduate stuttered. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/democrat-u-civil-rights-commission-wants-speech-codes-131814819.html

    Obviously loony, but is this really new? I had thought Multicultural Marxist PC speech codes had already become the norm on campuses all across the Western world. Ironic, since it was the Left that was protesting not having sufficient 'free speech' at UC Berkeley and elsewhere back in the 60s, and now it is the Left that is gleefully trying to stomp out any free speech with which it disagrees. 

     Still more irony, the Left always seemed to regard the Reagan presidency as the high-water mark of right-wing extremism, or 'fascism,' in the U.S., but I can't recall there being any right-wing speech codes on campuses or elsewhere, nor was it routine for peoples' careers and reputations to be instantly shot down in flames because someone made a slip of the tongue and said something embarrassingly un right-wing.