They are not even remotely comparable. The East German government created a network of hundreds of thousands of informants, maintained a separate penal system for political prisoners, prevented citizens from leaving the country, and used information gathered from surveillance to systematically destroy dissidents' lives.
The author of the article was put on paid leave for the remainder of the semester. It's unlikely that professors and classmates reported to the hotline would face even that.
Think about the implications of that at a deeper, rather than superficial, level. There's consequences for everything.
EDIT: The stated purpose of it isn't bad and as long as it doesn't enforce specific biases instead of eliminating them then it's probably okay
The problem is that it's not a fair system. And everybody knows this, but obviously if you're the ones making the rules and the system is in your favor, you don't care.
But the real problem is that there is no honesty in the discussions and arguments that SJWs and their sympathizers present.
Sounds very east german to me.
The cause of Professor Rectenwald’s guilt is certainly not, in our view, his identity as a cis, white, straight male. The cause of his guilt is the content and structure of his thinking.”
These people think they're part of some Soviet kangaroo court.
All these SJWs are just evil as far as I'm concerned. If they ever get real power, there would be a civil war.