A psychologist has recently recommended psychotherapy and counseling for students of the University of Wisconsin who are the “perpetrators of an incident of hate or bias,” according to the college’s website.
Known as Proposal 16, the idea was submitted to Campus Climate, a university website that published more than 100 proposals from students with “ideas for how to systematically elevate … standards of behavior and conduct” on campus, and to ensure that the “campus is welcoming and supportive to all.”
Proposal 16, submitted by a local psychologist, suggests a program for “biased” students, including a course focusing on types of biases and the emotional impact those biases can have on others. Psychotherapy would “assist the individual in determining their own values and behaviors that guide them in life decisions and paths they consciously choose.”
This means that students would be subject to psychotherapy for language, actions, protests, and jokes that fall under the university’s definition of bias and hate. The university’s full definition suggests that any expression of opinion that could potentially have a negative impact on another individual constitutes bias and hate.
One example of such bias was when students at UCLA held signs that said, “There are only two genders” and “Get your agenda out of my restroom,” according to The Daily Wire.
Opinions on gender identity or political views could result in psychotherapy for the perpetrators.Disagreement and protest about other topics could also result in punishment.
The website has an extensive list of topics: “actual or perceived age, race, color, creed, religion, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, marital status, spirituality, cultural, socio-economic status, or any combination of these or other related factors.”
“The fact that a psychologist would provide it as an example of possible treatments for ‘perpetrators of bias’ is concerning,” said Young America’s Foundation’s New Guard.
YAF chairman at UW-Madison, Jake Regner, doesn’t expect counseling or the new “cultural competency training” to change students.
“I highly doubt that this training program is going to help students be ‘culturally competent’ at all,” Regner said. “I think that’s a very misleading title designed to get students to buy in to the typical leftist indoctrination.”
His comment may sound a bit extreme.
But then again, suggesting psychotherapy for students who disagree with others sounds a bit extreme as well.
