Word: forbiddenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the Guidelines Concerning Harassment Through Discriminatory Conduct. "It is forbidden discrimination for any member of the Law School community, on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, or national origin, to subject any other member of the Law School community to any...physical contact or interference with freedom of movement that has the purpose or effect of...creating an intimidating, demeaning, degrading, hostile, or otherwise seriously offensive working or educational environment at Harvard Law School...
...guidelines also state that "It is...forbidden discrimination for any member of the Law School community, on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or national origin, to engage in any...speech...that would be viewed by a reasonable person as physically intimidating under the circumstances and that has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual's work or academic performance or of creating an intimidating, demeaning, degrading, hostile, or otherwise seriously offensive working or educational environment at Harvard Law School...
...does the first property of forbidden speech include only those insults that are based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability age or national origin? What about insults that are based on a student's physical appearance, academic performance, wealth or lack thereof, intelligence, social ineptitude, etc." Why should these kinds of insults not also be prohibited, if the Law School's goals is to promote a less intimidating, demeaning, degrading, hostile and seriously offensive environment? Why not also prohibit all nasty or even mildly insulting language? What about redness and unfriendliness...
...second property of forbidden speech at the Law School is that it is "commonly understood" to convey a hatred for human beings on the basis of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or national origin. But what is "commonly understood?" Will a list be drawn up of all the words, name-calling and epithets that this category includes, so that the speech that is deemed to posses this second property will be consistently determined and clear to all students (including foreign students who may not know what is "commonly understood" to be hateful...
...army uniform and a yarmulke and carrying a military-issue Galil assault rifle. As a Jew living in the occupied territories, he was entitled to carry the weapon wherever he went. Speaking good Arabic, "he asked to go inside during the prayers," said Abu Sarah. "I said it is forbidden. He said, 'I am the officer in charge here, and I must go in.' " With that, Goldstein swung his rifle butt into Abu Sarah's shoulder, knocking him down, and then rushed into the mosque...