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The tutors at the Faculty of Law got a \u00bbrecommendation to reconsider\u00ab their costume parties on their introduction camps for new students, which had themes like &#8216;Mexicans&#8217; and &#8216;The ghetto&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The debate spread quickly, and media throughout the country wrote how it would no longer be possible to tell an obscene joke in Copenhagen&#8217;s old halls of higher learning. However, in order to understand how the debate went down at the University of Copenhagen, and to understand why a recommendation to reconsider a theme for a costume party suddenly went off the rails, we have to go back a few years.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/ten-little-indians-and-then-there-were-none-how-do-you-do-intro-camp-without-giving-offence-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ten Little Indians And Then There Were None: How do you do intro camp without causing offence in 2019?<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<!-- end of module 1 --><br \/>\nThe theme party was not the first time we talked about where the limits are for fun intro weeks at the University of Copenhagen. As early as 2014, the University of Copenhagen and, in particular, the Department of Political Science, got bad press when the University Post wrote about <strong>sexism, drinking and stark initiation rituals<\/strong> on the intro camps. (It included something about closing your eyes and burying your fingers in a fist of Nutella, and caressing the mouth of a cut-off sheep\u2019s head, because it felt like labia.) But the Danish word for offence, \u2018kr\u00e6nkelse\u2019 had not yet become a buzzword. At the time, we talked more about a culture of sexism and drinking.<br \/>\n<!-- end of module 2 --><br \/>\nBoth in 2015 and 2017, at various places at the University of Copenhagen, it was possible to participate in a so-called &#8216;Bar Mitzvah&#8217; which played on <strong>stereotypes about Jews<\/strong> being stingy. In 2015, it was the Department of Anthropology that encouraged students to bring along their &#8216;Jew gold&#8217; to the bar, and in 2017 it was the medicine students that advertised that they \u00bbswap and trade Kahlua at very favourable prices in the best Jewish style.\u00ab The bars were criticized by Associate Professor of Anthropology Karen Lisa Salamon. But even though the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Ulla Wewer, said that a limit had been transgressed in the bar descriptions, it did not lead to a major discussion.<\/p>\n<p>It was also in September 2017 that students at the Department of Economics organised a <strong>&#8216;Men&#8217;s Friday bar&#8217;<\/strong>, where men could be Rambo-macho and sling a girl (who was willing) over their shoulders. It was just meant as satire, the organisers said in their defence, but the party was not fun, but excluded people, said the critics.<\/p>\n<p>And then something happened off campus and outside Denmark&#8217;s borders. In the autumn of 2017 <strong>the global #metoo wave surged like a virtual tsunami<\/strong>. All over the world, women talked about their sexual abuse experiences. The many testimonies changed fundamentally the way we talked about giving offence in the public debate.<br \/>\n<!-- end of module 3 --><br \/>\nBack at university, there was also backwash from the #metoo wave. In February 2018, the Magisterbladet magazine looked into whether <strong>students had been subjected to sexism on their studies and on the student jobs<\/strong>. 11 per cent of female students reported unwanted touching, hugging, or kisses on the student job, 8 per cent on their study programmes in the course of the last year.<\/p>\n<p>On 13 February 2018, a group claiming to be 48 anonymous female students from five universities, including the University of Copenhagen, submitted an open letter to their rectors through the newspaper Information. They appealed for a strong response to offensive behaviour from fellow students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>On 20 February 2018, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Employment submitted an official letter to managers, companies and public institutions in Denmark, where they called for sexual harassment in the workplace to be put on the agenda. It was all about civility and respect for others\u2019 boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00f8ren Pind, former Minister for Higher Education and Science, also joined in. On 11 April 2018 he sent a letter to the Danish universities and encouraged them to draw up \u00bbclear, well-informed and up-to-date guidelines for the handling of unacceptable behaviour\u00ab.<\/p>\n<p>And sexual harassment and civility came on the agenda at the University of Copenhagen, and people got &#8230; upset. On 25 June 2018, <strong>the university published its new policy on offensive behaviour<\/strong>, which included that \u00bbit is the employee&#8217;s or the student&#8217;s experience of having been subjected to offensive behaviour that is the starting point.\u00ab This exact sentence, and a &#8216;zero tolerance&#8217; formulation set off a debate.<\/p>\n<p>When the University Post on 13 September 2018 published an article about the new guidelines, with an angle that it was no longer possible to tell obscene jokes on campus, things went fast.<\/p>\n<p>On 16 September Jacob Mchangama, director of the think tank Justitia, published an e-mail from the University of Copenhagen on his Facebook profile. The email was addressed to the tutors at the Faculty of Law and was about the themes for the parties in the intro week. Prior to this, management at the Faculty of Law had received three enquiries <strong>from students who experienced the theme parties as offensive<\/strong>, and they encouraged the tutors to reconsider them.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later on 19 September, the University Post wrote that the Faculty of Law were not allowed to hold their theme parties at the university. A tutor, Jakob Krabbe S\u00f8rensen, said on behalf of all the law tutors, that this was \u00bbexercising prior censorship\u00ab. It was clear that the university&#8217;s recommendation was a requirement.<\/p>\n<p>The day after, on 20 September, the University Post followed up the case with a question from an anonymous employee at the University of Copenhagen, who was in doubt as to whether he would still be able to use the term \u2018academic erection\u2019 and be in accordance with the new guidelines. Both the trade unions Dj\u00f8f and the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM) called for calm: Take it easy, both sides in a case have to be heard.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/beatings-bombs-and-sex-with-a-pigs-head-the-universitys-crazy-initiation-rituals-through-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beatings, bombs and sex with a pig&#8217;s head: The university&#8217;s crazy initiation rituals through time<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few months later, the debate flared up again. 14 December 2018 weekly newspaper Weekendavisen wrote that an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities had been called in for a disciplinary conversation, which he had no idea what was about, and that he was being scrutinised. A group of anonymous students had complained to the dean arguing that <strong>the associate professor&#8217;s teaching was sexist, racist and eurocentric<\/strong>. The inquiry did not find that the associate professor had been racist or sexist, but \u2013 and there is a but \u2013 there had been a lack of sensitivity and understanding on his part for sensitive topics. The associate professor was not allowed to teach for the rest of the semester, and he was not allowed to supervise theses in the following semester. The debate was now about the extent to which the university&#8217;s guidelines had reduced academic freedom at the university.<\/p>\n<p>20 December at an internal debate meeting, it was commonly agreed that <strong>the guidelines for dealing with offensive behaviour should be changed. <\/strong><br \/>\n<!-- end of module 4 --><br \/>\nAfter Christmas, 23 January 2019, the University\u2019s General Collaboration Committee HSU decided that the guidelines for handling offensive behaviour should be changed.<\/p>\n<p>13 June 2019, the University of Copenhagen sent a revised set of guidelines for consultation with employees. The controversial formulation on the employee&#8217;s or student&#8217;s subjective sense of being offended being central, was taken out. It now states that <strong>management at the university can assess that something is not offensive<\/strong>, even if a student or employee thinks otherwise. The university now refers to the Danish Working Environment Authority&#8217;s general guidance on offensive behaviour. (Where it is still the subjective experience, which is central).<\/p>\n<p>This is probably still enough for the debate to continue.<br \/>\n<!-- end of module 5 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories of sexism, drinking and crazy initiation rituals, a global #metoo movement and a set of guidelines on how to deal with offensive behaviour made the University of Copenhagen the centre of a stormy debate last 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class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he debate about offensive behaviour \u2013 and perhaps, to a greater extent, the debate about whether your freedom of speech has been violated when someone gets offended by something you did \u2013 flared up in earnest at the University of Copenhagen in the summer of 2018. The tutors at the Faculty of Law got a \u00bbrecommendation to reconsider\u00ab their costume parties on their introduction camps for new students, which had themes like &#8216;Mexicans&#8217; and &#8216;The ghetto&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The debate spread quickly, and media throughout the country wrote how it would no longer be possible to tell an obscene joke in Copenhagen&#8217;s old halls of higher learning. However, in order to understand how the debate went down at the University of Copenhagen, and to understand why a recommendation to reconsider a theme for a costume party suddenly went off the rails, we have to go back a few years.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/ten-little-indians-and-then-there-were-none-how-do-you-do-intro-camp-without-giving-offence-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ten Little Indians And Then There Were None: How do you do intro camp without causing offence in 2019?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Headline","use_post_title":false,"headline":"2014","style":"heavy","highlighted_words":"2014","text_size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>The theme party was not the first time we talked about where the limits are for fun intro weeks at the University of Copenhagen. As early as 2014, the University of Copenhagen and, in particular, the Department of Political Science, got bad press when the University Post wrote about <strong>sexism, drinking and stark initiation rituals<\/strong> on the intro camps. (It included something about closing your eyes and burying your fingers in a fist of Nutella, and caressing the mouth of a cut-off sheep\u2019s head, because it felt like labia.) But the Danish word for offence, \u2018kr\u00e6nkelse\u2019 had not yet become a buzzword. At the time, we talked more about a culture of sexism and drinking.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Headline","use_post_title":false,"headline":"2015-17","style":"heavy","highlighted_words":"2015-17","text_size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Both in 2015 and 2017, at various places at the University of Copenhagen, it was possible to participate in a so-called &#8216;Bar Mitzvah&#8217; which played on <strong>stereotypes about Jews<\/strong> being stingy. In 2015, it was the Department of Anthropology that encouraged students to bring along their &#8216;Jew gold&#8217; to the bar, and in 2017 it was the medicine students that advertised that they \u00bbswap and trade Kahlua at very favourable prices in the best Jewish style.\u00ab The bars were criticized by Associate Professor of Anthropology Karen Lisa Salamon. But even though the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Ulla Wewer, said that a limit had been transgressed in the bar descriptions, it did not lead to a major discussion.<\/p>\n<p>It was also in September 2017 that students at the Department of Economics organised a <strong>&#8216;Men&#8217;s Friday bar&#8217;<\/strong>, where men could be Rambo-macho and sling a girl (who was willing) over their shoulders. It was just meant as satire, the organisers said in their defence, but the party was not fun, but excluded people, said the critics.<\/p>\n<p>And then something happened off campus and outside Denmark&#8217;s borders. In the autumn of 2017 <strong>the global #metoo wave surged like a virtual tsunami<\/strong>. All over the world, women talked about their sexual abuse experiences. The many testimonies changed fundamentally the way we talked about giving offence in the public debate.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Headline","use_post_title":false,"headline":"2018","style":"heavy","highlighted_words":"2018","text_size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>Back at university, there was also backwash from the #metoo wave. In February 2018, the Magisterbladet magazine looked into whether <strong>students had been subjected to sexism on their studies and on the student jobs<\/strong>. 11 per cent of female students reported unwanted touching, hugging, or kisses on the student job, 8 per cent on their study programmes in the course of the last year.<\/p>\n<p>On 13 February 2018, a group claiming to be 48 anonymous female students from five universities, including the University of Copenhagen, submitted an open letter to their rectors through the newspaper Information. They appealed for a strong response to offensive behaviour from fellow students and staff.<\/p>\n<p>On 20 February 2018, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Employment submitted an official letter to managers, companies and public institutions in Denmark, where they called for sexual harassment in the workplace to be put on the agenda. It was all about civility and respect for others\u2019 boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00f8ren Pind, former Minister for Higher Education and Science, also joined in. On 11 April 2018 he sent a letter to the Danish universities and encouraged them to draw up \u00bbclear, well-informed and up-to-date guidelines for the handling of unacceptable behaviour\u00ab.<\/p>\n<p>And sexual harassment and civility came on the agenda at the University of Copenhagen, and people got &#8230; upset. On 25 June 2018, <strong>the university published its new policy on offensive behaviour<\/strong>, which included that \u00bbit is the employee&#8217;s or the student&#8217;s experience of having been subjected to offensive behaviour that is the starting point.\u00ab This exact sentence, and a &#8216;zero tolerance&#8217; formulation set off a debate.<\/p>\n<p>When the University Post on 13 September 2018 published an article about the new guidelines, with an angle that it was no longer possible to tell obscene jokes on campus, things went fast.<\/p>\n<p>On 16 September Jacob Mchangama, director of the think tank Justitia, published an e-mail from the University of Copenhagen on his Facebook profile. The email was addressed to the tutors at the Faculty of Law and was about the themes for the parties in the intro week. Prior to this, management at the Faculty of Law had received three enquiries <strong>from students who experienced the theme parties as offensive<\/strong>, and they encouraged the tutors to reconsider them.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later on 19 September, the University Post wrote that the Faculty of Law were not allowed to hold their theme parties at the university. A tutor, Jakob Krabbe S\u00f8rensen, said on behalf of all the law tutors, that this was \u00bbexercising prior censorship\u00ab. It was clear that the university&#8217;s recommendation was a requirement.<\/p>\n<p>The day after, on 20 September, the University Post followed up the case with a question from an anonymous employee at the University of Copenhagen, who was in doubt as to whether he would still be able to use the term \u2018academic erection\u2019 and be in accordance with the new guidelines. Both the trade unions Dj\u00f8f and the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM) called for calm: Take it easy, both sides in a case have to be heard.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/beatings-bombs-and-sex-with-a-pigs-head-the-universitys-crazy-initiation-rituals-through-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beatings, bombs and sex with a pig&#8217;s head: The university&#8217;s crazy initiation rituals through time<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few months later, the debate flared up again. 14 December 2018 weekly newspaper Weekendavisen wrote that an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities had been called in for a disciplinary conversation, which he had no idea what was about, and that he was being scrutinised. A group of anonymous students had complained to the dean arguing that <strong>the associate professor&#8217;s teaching was sexist, racist and eurocentric<\/strong>. The inquiry did not find that the associate professor had been racist or sexist, but \u2013 and there is a but \u2013 there had been a lack of sensitivity and understanding on his part for sensitive topics. The associate professor was not allowed to teach for the rest of the semester, and he was not allowed to supervise theses in the following semester. The debate was now about the extent to which the university&#8217;s guidelines had reduced academic freedom at the university.<\/p>\n<p>20 December at an internal debate meeting, it was commonly agreed that <strong>the guidelines for dealing with offensive behaviour should be changed. <\/strong><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Headline","use_post_title":false,"headline":"2019","style":"heavy","highlighted_words":"2019","text_size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>After Christmas, 23 January 2019, the University\u2019s General Collaboration Committee HSU decided that the guidelines for handling offensive behaviour should be changed.<\/p>\n<p>13 June 2019, the University of Copenhagen sent a revised set of guidelines for consultation with employees. The controversial formulation on the employee&#8217;s or student&#8217;s subjective sense of being offended being central, was taken out. It now states that <strong>management at the university can assess that something is not offensive<\/strong>, even if a student or employee thinks otherwise. The university now refers to the Danish Working Environment Authority&#8217;s general guidance on offensive behaviour. (Where it is still the subjective experience, which is central).<\/p>\n<p>This is probably still enough for the debate to continue.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"L\u00e6s mere","hand_picked_posts":true,"references":[{"reference":{"ID":91776,"post_author":"71","post_date":"2019-08-27 12:53:38","post_date_gmt":"2019-08-27 10:53:38","post_content":"<span class=\"dropcap\">N<\/span>ela Gacic havde bestilt seks sombreros over internettet. Hun kalder dem mexicanerhatte, og hun havde k\u00f8bt dem, fordi hun og en lille gruppe andre russer skulle repr\u00e6sentere Mexico ved OL. Alts\u00e5 ved OL-temafesten p\u00e5 den rustur p\u00e5 Jura, Nela skulle af sted p\u00e5 f\u00e5 dage senere.\r\n\r\n<strong>L\u00c6S OGS\u00c5:<\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/inkluderende-tiltale-undervisere-paa-humaniora-bliver-opfordret-til-at-bruge-koensneutrale-stedord\/\">Undervisere p\u00e5 Humaniora opfordres til at bruge k\u00f8nsneutrale betegnelser<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00bbJeg plejer at kalde det mexicanergate,\u00ab siger hun om de efterf\u00f8lgende h\u00e6ndelser: Udkl\u00e6dningstemaet blev droppet, mexicanerhattene sendt tilbage til forhandleren (den lille gruppe studerende delte udgifterne til forsendelsen), en gallafest blev den hurtige erstatning (\u00bbDet var lidt \u00f8v, for det er sjovere at kl\u00e6de sig ud end at tage p\u00e6nt t\u00f8j p\u00e5\u00ab), og pludselig var Det Juridiske Fakultets fester for nye studerende <em>all over<\/em> de danske medier.\r\n<blockquote>Det er altid en afvejning: Man skal kunne kl\u00e6de sig ud p\u00e5 sjove m\u00e5der, men man skal tage hensyn og ikke ramme nogen.\r\n<p class=\"quotee\">Jakob Krabbe S\u00f8rensen, tutor i 2018<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\nOrdren kom oppefra i form af en e-mail fra juraprodekan Stine J\u00f8rgensen, hvori tutorerne blev bedt om at genoverveje deres valg af temaer til festen, temaer der ud over \u2018OL\u2019 blandt andet inkluderede \u2018Cowboys og Indianere\u2019, \u2018Mexicanere\u2019, \u2018White Trash\u2019 og \u2018Rich Kids\u2019.\r\n\r\nI mailen stod der: \u00bbJeg skal henstille til, at I sammen med koordinatorerne hurtigst muligt ser p\u00e5 udkl\u00e6dningskategorierne igen med henblik p\u00e5 at sikre, at temaerne lever op til fakultetets v\u00e6rdier om diversitet og ikke diskrimination.\u00ab Det var alts\u00e5 temaer med stereotyper om fx etnicitet, seksualitet og religion, der skulle sorteres fra programmet.\r\n\r\nHenstillingen, som det hed i mailen, blev ikke l\u00e6st som en henstilling, men som et forbud.\r\n\r\n\u00bbDet var et st\u00f8rre praktisk problem, for vi modtog mailen to dage inden rusturen, og der var 700 nye studerende, der havde k\u00f8bt ind til de her temaer,\u00ab siger Jakob Krabbe S\u00f8rensen, som var tutor i 2018. Da prodekanens mail senere blev l\u00e6kket, og Uniavisen samlede historien op, var det ham, der udtalte sig p\u00e5 vegne af tutorerne.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/adm\/uniavisen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SKRIV DIG OP TIL UNIAVISENS NYHEDSBREV HER<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<h3>Delikat gr\u00e6nsedragning<\/h3>\r\nUniversitetet havde modtaget tre klager over temaerne, f\u00f8r de kontaktede tutorerne: En studerende havde ringet og klaget, og to studerende havde sendt mails. Fakultetet reagerede p\u00e5 klagerne ved at tr\u00e6kke en gr\u00e6nse, og Jakob Krabbe S\u00f8rensen mente dengang og nu, at gr\u00e6nsen blev trukket forkert.\r\n\r\n\u00bbDet er altid en afvejning: Man skal kunne kl\u00e6de sig ud p\u00e5 sjove m\u00e5der, men man skal tage hensyn og ikke ramme nogen. Der kan altid v\u00e6re nogen, som vil f\u00f8le sig st\u00f8dt, eller som ligefrem bevidst vil s\u00f8ge en anledning til at f\u00f8le sig st\u00f8dt, og s\u00e5 skal der jo s\u00e6ttes en gr\u00e6nse et sted. Der var vi nogen, der mente, at den gr\u00e6nse blev sat for lavt,\u00ab siger han og tilf\u00f8jer, at han har forst\u00e5else for, at universitetet skulle tr\u00e6ffe en hurtig beslutning.\r\n\r\n<em>Du siger, at der altid vil v\u00e6re nogen, der kan finde en anledning til at blive ramt over temaer. Synes du, at det er noget, folk har fundet p\u00e5 for at skabe en debat?<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00bbDet skal jeg ikke kunne sige. Det er ogs\u00e5 en sag om princippet om, hvilket rum man efterlader til folk, der kan finde p\u00e5 at udnytte det. Det kan der jo altid v\u00e6re nogen, der g\u00f8r.\u00ab\r\n\r\nJakob Krabbe S\u00f8rensen vil ikke sige, pr\u00e6cis hvor gr\u00e6nsen s\u00e5 skal drages, det er ikke hans job, siger han, men han og medtutorerne p\u00e5 Jura ville gerne have forl\u00f8bet taget op til evaluering.\r\n\r\n\u00bbOg det m\u00e5 man ogs\u00e5 sige, at det blev,\u00ab siger han.\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\nP\u00e5 dr.dk hed historien \u00bbK\u00f8benhavns Universitet forbyder kr\u00e6nkende udkl\u00e6dning\u00ab, B.T. skrev, at \u00bbK\u00f8benhavns Universitet forbyder \u2018kr\u00e6nkende\u2019 udkl\u00e6dning\u00ab. I Uniavisen k\u00f8rte historien \u00bbIndianer, mexicaner, OL-deltager \u2013 det m\u00e5 du ikke kl\u00e6de dig ud som p\u00e5 Jura\u00ab, og i Kristeligt Dagblad hed det \u00bbKritik: Universitetet g\u00e5r for langt, n\u00e5r de vil forbyde sjofle vittigheder og indianerkostumer\u00ab.\r\n\r\nNu, et \u00e5r efter, har debatten sat sit pr\u00e6g p\u00e5 planl\u00e6gningen af \u00e5rets rusforl\u00f8b.\r\n\r\nSagen handlede f\u00f8rst, et kort \u00f8jeblik i hvert fald, blot om, hvad man kan tillade sig at kl\u00e6de sig ud som, og hvorn\u00e5r noget er diskriminerende. Men i tilbageblikket er det tydeligt, at debatten stak langt dybere. Den skrev sig ind i debatten om gr\u00e6nser efter #metoo og stak til en udbredt frygt blandt nogle debatt\u00f8rer for, at danske universiteter er begyndt at ligge under for en overdreven f\u00f8lsomhed, s\u00e5kaldte amerikanske tilstande. En udkl\u00e6dningsfest p\u00e5 universitetet blev pludselig et sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5l om samfundets retning. K\u00f8benhavns Universitet ville bl\u00e6se med de nye vinde, men endte i regul\u00e6rt stormvejr.\r\n\r\nK\u00f8benhavns Universitet lancerede i sommeren 2018 et s\u00e6t retningslinjer om chikane og kr\u00e6nkende adf\u00e6rd, hvori universitetet slog fast, at det var den enkeltes subjektive oplevelse af, at en handling var kr\u00e6nkende, som \u2018var i centrum\u2019. Dav\u00e6rende prodekan p\u00e5 Jura, Stine J\u00f8rgensen \u2013 hende, der skrev den f\u00f8romtalte mail til tutorerne \u2013 fortalte dengang til Berlingske, at mailen skulle ses i forl\u00e6ngelse af et \u00f8get fokus p\u00e5 k\u00f8n, seksualitet og etnicitet.\r\n\r\n<strong>L\u00c6S OGS\u00c5:<\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/kend-dine-kraenkelsesbegreber-med-uniavisens-kraenkelsesordbog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kend dine kr\u00e6nkelsesbegreber med Uniavisens kr\u00e6nkelsesordbog<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00bbJeg ser det helt klart som et udtryk for, at der er en sk\u00e6rpet opm\u00e6rksomhed p\u00e5, hvordan man skal v\u00e6re i relationer til hinanden, og at man ikke m\u00e5 g\u00e5 over nogen gr\u00e6nser. Vi havde ikke t\u00e6nkt p\u00e5 den her problemstilling p\u00e5 forkant. Igennem det sidste \u00e5r er der kommet en opm\u00e6rksomhed p\u00e5, at m\u00e5ske skal man ikke finde sig i s\u00e5 meget mere. Vi er rendt lige ind i en reel samfundsm\u00e6ssig tendens.\u00ab\r\n\r\nDebatten om temafesterne handlede aldrig kun om temafester, den handlede om, hvem der har definitionsretten p\u00e5 en kr\u00e6nkelse p\u00e5 K\u00f8benhavns Universitet.\r\n<h3>\u00d8nske\u00f8\u00a0m\u00e5tte d\u00f8<\/h3>\r\nSidste \u00e5r i august var Amanda H\u00f8jbjerg Jacobsen kl\u00e6dt ud som pirat, hun var til rusforl\u00f8b som studerende p\u00e5 Teater og Performancestudier, og festen havde temaet \u2018\u00d8nske\u00f8en\u2019. Andre var kl\u00e6dt ud som \u2019de glemte drenge\u2019 fra eventyret om Peter Pan, og s\u00e5 var der dem, der var kl\u00e6dt ud som indianere. I dag er Amanda H\u00f8jbjerg Jacobsen selv tutor, hun har v\u00e6ret med til at planl\u00e6gge det kommende rusforl\u00f8b, og i \u00e5r ville et tema som \u2018\u00d8nske\u00f8en\u2019 blive sorteret fra, siger hun. \u00bbDer ville vi nok v\u00e6re forsigtige og finde et andet tema p\u00e5 grund af indianerne.\u00ab\r\n\r\n<strong>L\u00c6S OGS\u00c5:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/88-procent-af-de-studerende-ved-ikke-hvor-de-skal-gaa-hen-hvis-de-bliver-seksuelt-kraenket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">88 procent af de studerende ved ikke, hvor de skal g\u00e5 hen, hvis de bliver seksuelt kr\u00e6nket<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nDer er mange t\u00e6nkepauser, n\u00e5r hun taler, hun siger \u00bbhmm,\u00ab og hendes stemme har en klang af, at her er det en god ide lige at overveje sine ord en ekstra gang. Hun fort\u00e6ller, at det seneste \u00e5rs debat har fyldt meget hos tutorerne. De har talt om m\u00e5ske at have et fiktivt tema, tage udgangspunkt i et eventyr, i det overnaturlige, for p\u00e5 den m\u00e5de at undg\u00e5 problematiske temaer. Men s\u00e5 igen: de fiktive indianere kunne jo sagtens v\u00e6re st\u00f8dende i den virkelige verden.\r\n\r\nTutorerne fra Teater og Performancestudier er i \u00e5r endt p\u00e5 \u2018Bondeg\u00e5rdstema\u2019. Det er s\u00e5 tilpas bredt, har de vurderet, at de nye studerende kan g\u00e5 til det, som de vil.\r\n\r\n\u00bbVi har senere t\u00e6nkt over, om det m\u00e5ske kan kr\u00e6nke nogen, at det er et meget dansk tema. Hvad nu hvis alle m\u00f8der op i overalls og med str\u00e5 i munden? Vi f\u00f8ler lidt, at uanset hvad vi v\u00e6lger, s\u00e5 er det generaliserende,\u00ab siger Amanda H\u00f8jbjerg Jacobsen.\r\n\r\n<em>S\u00e5 I har opfattet det s\u00e5dan, at det er det generaliserende, som g\u00f8r det st\u00f8dende?\u202f<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00bbJa. Og det er sv\u00e6rt ikke at generalisere overhovedet.\u00ab\n<!-- end of module 2 -->\nAmanda H\u00f8jbjerg Jacobsen kan godt forst\u00e5, at nogle studerende fandt sidste \u00e5rs temaer p\u00e5 Jura problematiske. Men hun synes ogs\u00e5, det er et ... sv\u00e6rt emne.\r\n\r\n<strong>L\u00c6S OGS\u00c5: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/studievejledere-vi-maa-ikke-individualisere-perfektheds-kulturen\/\">Perfekthedskultur skal ikke v\u00e6re den enkelte studerendes problem<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00bbJeg t\u00e6nker, at det, der kan v\u00e6re st\u00f8dende, er, n\u00e5r vi generaliserer noget, som ikke er \u2026 Hvordan skal jeg forklare det? N\u00e5r vi generaliserer noget, som ikke ligger os n\u00e6rt, som vi ikke ved nok om til at udtale os. N\u00e5r det ikke er typisk dansk, er det m\u00e5ske ikke vores job at g\u00f8re os kloge p\u00e5 det. P\u00e5 den anden side t\u00e6nker jeg, at det, der bliver gjort i introugen, er sjov og ballade.\u00ab\r\n\r\nAmanda H\u00f8jbjerg Jacobsen synes, det er sv\u00e6rt at snakke om. Hun er bange for at formulere sig p\u00e5 en m\u00e5de, der er st\u00f8dende. Man kunne godt f\u00e5 indtryk af, at hun simpelthen er faret vildt i debatten. P\u00e5 den m\u00e5de repr\u00e6senterer hun m\u00e5ske det store, tavse flertal meget godt.\r\n\r\nDebatten om K\u00f8benhavns Universitets retningslinjer for kr\u00e6nkende adf\u00e6rd har i medierne v\u00e6ret pr\u00e6get af de h\u00f8jeste stemmer, der kan svinge sig helt derop, hvor det i sidste ende handler om ytringsfrihed. Morten Messerschmidt kaldte universitetets retningslinjer for en \u2019fatwa\u2019, og han opfordrede til civil ulydighed. \u00bbDet er enhver frihedselskende students pligt,\u00ab skrev han i et debatindl\u00e6g i Altinget.\r\n\r\nDet er lidt sv\u00e6rere at finde eksempler p\u00e5 folk, der gik i brechen for K\u00f8benhavns Universitet og forsvarede universitetets indgriben i temafesterne.\r\n\r\n<strong>L\u00c6S OGS\u00c5:<\/strong><em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/overblik-saadan-endte-koebenhavns-universitet-midt-i-kraenkelsesdebatten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overblik: S\u00e5dan endte K\u00f8benhavns Universitet midt i kr\u00e6nkelsesdebatten<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nFor Jakob Krabbe S\u00f8rensen og juratutorerne var det helt store problem dog af mere praktisk karakter, for de skulle finde p\u00e5 nye temaer to dage f\u00f8r en rustur. I flere tilf\u00e6lde endte de med kun at \u00e6ndre temaerne en lille smule, s\u00e5 de studerende stadig kunne bruge den udkl\u00e6dning, de havde brugt penge p\u00e5. \u2018Cowboys og indianere\u2019 blev til \u2018Det vilde vesten\u2019, \u2018Mexicanere\u2019 blev til \u2018Hattefest\u2019, \u2018White trash\u2019 blev til \u2018Trailerpark\u2019.\r\n\r\nJakob Krabbe S\u00f8rensen siger, at han godt forst\u00e5r, at hele miseren har aff\u00f8dt en debat om ytringsfrihed, og han mener, at den debat er vigtig, men: \u00bbSelvf\u00f8lgelig er det ikke kernen af ytringsfrihed, at man skal have lov til at kl\u00e6de sig ud som mexicaner.\u00ab\r\n<h3>Rundtosset sund fornuft<\/h3>\r\nCarina Meier var ny studerende p\u00e5 Teologi i 2018, og nu er hun tutor. Hun siger, det er godt, at K\u00f8benhavns Universitet har sk\u00e6rpet retningslinjerne for kr\u00e6nkende adf\u00e6rd, og hun har intet imod, at de retningslinjer ogs\u00e5 g\u00e6lder en udkl\u00e6dningsfest p\u00e5 en rustur.\r\n\r\nHun siger, at det seneste \u00e5rs debat har bidraget positivt til de overvejelser, man som tutor b\u00f8r g\u00f8re sig, n\u00e5r man planl\u00e6gger temaer og fester, og selv om hun godt kan forst\u00e5 argumentet om, at det m\u00e5 v\u00e6re op til tutorerne selv at planl\u00e6gge deres introforl\u00f8b, mener hun, det er godt med nogle klare retningslinjer.\r\n\r\n\u00bbTutorerne skal have en eller anden frihed, men det skal v\u00e6re frihed under ansvar. Jeg synes, det er okay, at K\u00f8benhavns Universitet udstikker retningslinjer, n\u00e5r de har modtaget informationer om folk, der har f\u00f8lt sig kr\u00e6nket. Det kan jeg kun se positive ting i,\u00ab siger hun.\r\n\r\n<strong>L\u00c6S OGS\u00c5:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/saadan-forbereder-tutorerne-sig-paa-at-moede-de-nye-studerende\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S\u00e5dan forbereder tutorerne sig p\u00e5 at m\u00f8de de nye studerende<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nDebatten om kr\u00e6nkelser har fyldt i tutorernes planl\u00e6gning, men det er ikke hendes indtryk, at tutorerne p\u00e5 Teologi har f\u00f8lt, at debatten fyldte for meget. De er ikke interesseret i, at nogen skal f\u00f8le sig ekskluderet eller latterliggjort, og selvf\u00f8lgelig er der en gr\u00e6nse for, hvor meget hensyn man kan tage, men: \u00bbMan kan jo aldrig sige til en person, at de skal slappe af, for det er jo dem, der ved, om de f\u00f8ler sig kr\u00e6nket,\u00ab siger Carina Meier.\r\n<blockquote>Hvis man bruger sin sunde fornuft, s\u00e5 t\u00e6nker jeg, at det ikke kan g\u00e5 helt galt\r\n<p class=\"quotee\">Carina Meier, tutor<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\nHvordan ved man s\u00e5, om noget er over gr\u00e6nsen?\u202f Carina Meier svarer: \u00bbVi har t\u00e6nkt meget over, om vi selv ville synes, det her var okay, hvis det var os? Alle er jo forskellige og har forskellige meninger, men hvis man bruger sin sunde fornuft, s\u00e5 t\u00e6nker jeg, at det ikke kan g\u00e5 helt galt.\u00ab\r\n\r\nOg s\u00e5 alligevel. Jacob Krabbe S\u00f8rensen siger, at da juratutorerne sidste \u00e5r planlagde temaerne til deres fester, overvejede de ogs\u00e5, hvilke temaer de kunne v\u00e6lge, som p\u00e5 den ene side ville v\u00e6re sjove og p\u00e5 den anden side ikke v\u00e6re st\u00f8dende eller respektl\u00f8se. Selvf\u00f8lgelig gjorde de det, siger han.\n<!-- end of module 3 -->\nS\u00e5 hvorfor var der alligevel nogen, der mente, at temaerne ikke var i orden? Amanda H\u00f8jbjerg Jacobsen, tutor p\u00e5 Teater og Performancestudier siger, at sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5let om, hvorvidt noget er st\u00f8dende eller problematisk i h\u00f8j grad afg\u00f8res af modtageren. Alts\u00e5: det, jeg synes er problematisk, er ikke n\u00f8dvendigvis det samme, som du finder problematisk. Og s\u00e5 kommer den sunde fornuft jo lidt til kort. Dermed er vi tilbage ved sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5let: Hvem afg\u00f8r i sidste ende, om noget er kr\u00e6nkende?\r\n\r\n<strong>L\u00c6S OGS\u00c5:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/studerende-vil-lave-retningslinjer-for-at-undgaa-graenseoverskridende-adfaerd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Studerende vil lave retningslinjer for at undg\u00e5 gr\u00e6nseoverskridende adf\u00e6rd<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nDet g\u00f8r universitetets ledelse tilsyneladende. For universitetets kr\u00e6nkelsesretningslinjer fra 2018 er blevet revideret og mangler blot en endelig godkendelse. I den nye, nye udgave af retningslinjer for kr\u00e6nkende adf\u00e6rd, er den kr\u00e6nkedes oplevelse skiftet ud med ledelsens vurdering. I de gamle retningslinjer stod der: \u00bbDet er medarbejderens eller den studerendes oplevelse af at have v\u00e6ret udsat for kr\u00e6nkende adf\u00e6rd, der er udgangspunktet.\u00ab\r\n\r\nI de nye retningslinjer st\u00e5r der, at: \u00bbDer kan v\u00e6re situationer, hvor en person har f\u00f8lt sig kr\u00e6nket, men hvor ledelsen vil konstatere, at der ikke er tale om en kr\u00e6nkende handling.\u00ab K\u00f8benhavns Universitet henviser dog i de nye retningslinjer til Arbejdstilsynet, som ogs\u00e5 tager udgangspunkt i den enkeltes oplevelse, n\u00e5r det kommer til kr\u00e6nkelser \u2013 ligesom det f\u00f8rste, st\u00e6rkt kritiserede regels\u00e6t gjorde.\r\n<h3>B\u00f8h-faktoren<\/h3>\r\nForvirret? Forst\u00e5eligt. Lad os vende tilbage til Carina Meier p\u00e5 Teologi. Hun siger, at tutorerne har fundet p\u00e5 et introforl\u00f8b, som hun ikke tror kan kr\u00e6nke nogen. De har ikke kun t\u00e6nkt over s\u00e5dan noget som identitet, nationalitet, seksualitet, de har ogs\u00e5 t\u00e6nkt over, om de forskellige aktiviteter er tilg\u00e6ngelige for folk med forskellige kropsbygninger og forskellige personlighedstyper. De skal blandt andet have et natl\u00f8b p\u00e5 rusturen, hvor der har v\u00e6ret en klar regel om, at det ikke skulle v\u00e6re uhyggeligt eller ubehageligt.\r\n\r\n\u00bbVi kalder det b\u00f8h-faktoren, for der er nogen, der ikke bryder sig om m\u00f8rke eller om at blive forskr\u00e6kket p\u00e5 den m\u00e5de,\u00ab siger Carina Meier.\r\n<blockquote>Man kan sagtens have det sjovt uden at skulle nedg\u00f8re og latterligg\u00f8re folk\r\n<p class=\"quotee\">Amanda H\u00f8jbjerg Jacobsen, tutor<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\nDe har desuden indlagt en del pauser i programmet, s\u00e5 folk kan tr\u00e6kke sig tilbage og lade op lidt v\u00e6k fra alt det sociale.\r\n\r\n\u00bbSom tutorer respekterer vi ogs\u00e5, hvis der er noget, folk ikke vil v\u00e6re med til. Selv om det er sv\u00e6rt at finde en aktivitet, som alle synes er sjov, s\u00e5 er det vigtigt, at man tager hensyn til de tilf\u00e6lde, hvor folk har brug for at v\u00e6re sig selv.\u00ab\r\n\r\nMen har det s\u00e5 taget lidt af det sjove ud af tutorgerningen, at de har v\u00e6ret s\u00e5 obs p\u00e5 at tage mange forskellige hensyn? \u00bbOverhovedet ikke,\u00ab siger hun. \u00bbMan kan sagtens have det sjovt uden at skulle nedg\u00f8re og latterligg\u00f8re folk.\u00ab\r\n\r\nFor hverken Amanda H\u00f8jbjerg Jacobsen eller Carina Meier har debatten \u00e6ndret fundamentalt, hvordan de planl\u00e6gger et rusforl\u00f8b, men den har gjort dem mere opm\u00e6rksomme p\u00e5, hvad der g\u00f8r sig godt p\u00e5 et rusforl\u00f8b, og hvad man m\u00e5ske skal g\u00e5 udenom. De synes begge, debatten har v\u00e6ret vigtig.\r\n\r\n<strong>L\u00c6S OGS\u00c5:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uniavis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fra gym til uni: Her er de fem st\u00f8rste overraskelser<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nJakob Krabbe S\u00f8rensen siger, at han h\u00e5ber, at der i \u00e5r vil v\u00e6re st\u00f8rre tillid til tutorerne fra fakulteternes side, tillid til, at de nok skal t\u00e6nke sig om og s\u00f8rge for, at rusforl\u00f8bet ikke handler om at nedg\u00f8re eller kr\u00e6nke nogen. Han anerkender, at fakultetsledelsen stod i en vanskelig situation sidste \u00e5r, men h\u00e5ber at ledelsen vil h\u00e5ndtere det anderledes i \u00e5r, hvis der skulle v\u00e6re studerende, der finder nogle af udkl\u00e6dningsfesterne upassende.\r\n\r\n\u00bbDet kan man for eksempel g\u00f8r ved at inddrage tutorerne i dialogen med den kr\u00e6nkede studerende eller ved at vende temaerne med fakultetsledelsen p\u00e5 forh\u00e5nd, hvis det vurderes, at det er n\u00f8dvendigt.\u00ab\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uniavis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F\u00d8LG UNIAVISEN P\u00c5 FACEBOOK<\/a><\/strong>\n<!-- end of module 4 -->\n","post_title":"En\u00a0indi\u00a0... to\u00a0indi\u00a0... NUL indianere: Hvordan holder man kr\u00e6nkelsesfri rustur i 2019?","post_excerpt":"Tutorerne p\u00e5 Jura blev i 2018 \u00e5r bedt om at \u00e6ndre temaerne for festerne p\u00e5 rusturen. Det satte gang i en vild debat i store danske medier. En debat, der aldrig kun handlede om temafester p\u00e5 et universitet, men om hvordan hele samfundet forholder sig til kr\u00e6nkelser. S\u00e5 hvad g\u00f8r man, n\u00e5r man skal planl\u00e6gge rustur \u00e5ret efter?","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"en-indi-to-indi-nul-indianere-hvordan-holder-man-kraenkelsesfri-rustur-i-2019","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-07-03 11:28:30","post_modified_gmt":"2020-07-03 09:28:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=91776\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":91875,"post_author":"71","post_date":"2019-08-27 12:45:43","post_date_gmt":"2019-08-27 10:45:43","post_content":"<h2>Verbum<\/h2>\r\n<strong>Oprindelse\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nOrdet stammer fra\u00a0middelnedertysk\u00a0krenken\u00a0'g\u00f8re svag', afledt af\u00a0krank\u00a0'svag, syg', oprindelig 'krummet'.\u00a0\u2019Kr\u00e6nkelse\u2019\u00a0optr\u00e6der f\u00f8rste gang i Gammel Dansk Ordbog i 1406, hvor det betyder at bryde freden, fx mellem to lande.\u00a0\u2019Kr\u00e6nkelse\u2019\u00a0optr\u00e6der i tredje Mosebog i den tidligste danske bibelovers\u00e6ttelse fra 1475,\u00a0og\u00a0her betyder det at kr\u00e6nke seksuelt. I Moths ordbog fra 1700-tallet findes\u00a0krenke,\u00a0som betyder\u00a0\u00bbat g\u00f8re fortr\u00e6d, skade, uret, vold.\u00ab\u00a0Fokus er p\u00e5 akt\u00f8ren, der udf\u00f8rer handlingen, p\u00e5\u00a0kr\u00e6nkeren.\r\n\r\n<strong>Betydninger\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n1.\u00a0At skade eller beg\u00e5 overgreb mod nogens \u00e6re, selvf\u00f8lelse el.lign.\r\n1.a. At beg\u00e5 seksuelt overgreb mod nogen; voldtage\r\n\r\n2. At st\u00f8de private eller almene f\u00f8lelser, sociale, moralske eller religi\u00f8se normer el.lign.\r\nDenne nye betydning med fokus p\u00e5 f\u00f8lelser og normer introduceres i 2004 i Den Danske Ordbog.\r\n\r\n3. 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Fokus er p\u00e5 modtageren af en kr\u00e6nkelse og dennes reaktion. Der er modsat fokus fra verbet\u00a0kr\u00e6nke\u00a0og substantivet\u00a0kr\u00e6nkelse,\u00a0der begge fokuserer p\u00e5 akt\u00f8ren, kr\u00e6nkeren.\u00a0Kr\u00e6nkelseskultur\u00a0optr\u00e6der ofte sammen med\u00a0identitetspolitik.\n<!-- end of module 2 -->\n<h2>Adjektiv, afledning af verbet\u00a0kr\u00e6nke\u00a0og substantivet\u00a0kr\u00e6nkelse<\/h2>\r\n<strong>Oprindelse<\/strong>\r\nBruges f\u00f8rste gang i 2011 af debatt\u00f8r og teolog Katrine Winkel Holm, som er medstifter af og n\u00e6stformand i Trykkefrihedsselskabet og medstifter af Islamkritisk Netv\u00e6rk. Holm bruger ordet til at beskrive \u2019den altid kr\u00e6nkelsesparate muslimske verden\u2019. Brugen af ordet stiger meget i 2017 og 2018.\r\n\r\n<strong>Betydninger<\/strong>\r\nLadet ord. Bruges til at beskrive en gruppe mennesker, der er parate til at lade sig kr\u00e6nke. 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