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Making A Fat Joke Could Land You In Hot
Water At Northwestern University

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Posted By: Beardo, 9/15/2024 10:33:31 AM

Northwestern University, a prestigious college in Illinois, recently adopted a policy that would punish students for making fat jokes. The university included weight and height on its list of “protected characteristics” in its 2024 discrimination, harassment and sexual misconduct policy, placing the traits alongside attributes like race and gender. Making jokes about these protected characteristics runs afoul of the policy and can result in sanctions for students, staff or faculty, according to the university.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DiegoDude 9/15/2024 10:44:02 AM (No. 1796071)
So, the snowflakes wouldn't watch a past episode of In Living Color's The Dirty Dozens game show?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: voxpopuli 9/15/2024 10:54:05 AM (No. 1796074)
i guess that means Boll Cosby is back in trouble all his FAT ALBERT jokes
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Hazymac 9/15/2024 10:56:32 AM (No. 1796075)
You mean like saying that when Rosie O'Donnell sits around the house, she sits around the house?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Highlander 9/15/2024 11:18:48 AM (No. 1796089)
Liberalism is a humor killer. Liberals take themselves so damned seriously that politically incorrect jokes are anathema to their noble sensitivities.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: itsonlyme 9/15/2024 11:20:18 AM (No. 1796090)
No joke. Northwestern University has gone beyond "woke".
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Reply 6 - Posted by: edgar 9/15/2024 11:22:17 AM (No. 1796093)
Hey, Hey, Hey... Can making the observation that Rosie has more chins than a Chinese phonebook can get you time in the slammer?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JunkYardDog 9/15/2024 11:27:51 AM (No. 1796096)
it sounds like Northwester University is a joke. Victimology courses must be mandatory.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Urgent Fury 9/15/2024 11:51:30 AM (No. 1796107)
She so fat, when she sits around campus, she sits AROUND the campus
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Reply 9 - Posted by: hershey 9/15/2024 11:56:51 AM (No. 1796114)
They keep it up and the only thing we will be left to joke about will be liberals...
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Kate318 9/15/2024 11:59:29 AM (No. 1796116)
Great! Now where are the protections for political affiliation?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Hazymac 9/15/2024 12:01:44 PM (No. 1796118)
Remember when John Belushi did an impression of Elizabeth Taylor? Bill Murray remarked about her [sic] "beautiful eyes." "She" was eating pizza, choked out a bite, puked, and kept eating. When told she was among the most beautiful woman in the world, "she" said, "Um hmmm" as she kept eating. John Belushi, RIP, was graet.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Hermit_Crab 9/15/2024 12:20:56 PM (No. 1796131)
How about skinny jokes? Are they OK?..... Or is it actually jokes in general that they want to eliminate?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: padiva 9/15/2024 1:00:55 PM (No. 1796147)
What about elephant jokes......from 60 years ago?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: MickTurn 9/15/2024 1:11:48 PM (No. 1796161)
You're not FAT, you are "Excessively Weight Challenged", happy now?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 9/15/2024 1:29:13 PM (No. 1796180)
Censored speech, and a long way from Skokie.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Strike3 9/15/2024 1:48:09 PM (No. 1796190)
Fat chance I'll ever visit Illinois again. Let's see, a joke involving Pritzker, Lori Lightfoot and Jussie Smollett would really get you in hot water with the PC Police.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: US Veteran 9/15/2024 2:20:02 PM (No. 1796201)
No doubt this is instituted by some WOKE control freak who suffers from LITTLE MAN SYNDROME
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Yo Yo 9/24/2024 11:01:50 AM (No. 1801323)
My nephew just started there last week. My sister sent me a clip of their welcoming committee to students and parents, each faculty/administrator introducing themselves and of course giving us their pronouns. It was almost like a joke but they were dead serious. I would have been very tempted to take my child and left at that moment, but then we wouldn't have made it that far anyway.
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