Lawsuit Targets University of Michigan’s ‘Bias Response Team’

The campus free speech group, Speech First, has sued the University of Michigan claiming that the school has a “too broad” disciplinary code, and that the school’s “Bias Reponse Team,” which polices complaints of micro-aggression, subtle discrimination, and minor personal offenses, unconstitutionally chills student speech at the public university.

According to Reason and The Wall Street Journal‘s Jillian Kay Melchior, UMich’s Bias Response Team is a group of administrators who encourage students to report others for hurting their feelings or infringing on their personal dignity, claiming that: “The most important indication of bias is your own feelings … encourage others to report if they have been the target or witness of a bias incident.”