Ken Berwitz
The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, an irony-freecampus, declared the phrase “politically correct” amicroaggression. The master of Yale\’s Pierson College said his regrettable title reminds distressedstudents of slavery. Wesleyan University\’s student government threatened to cut the school newspaper\’s fundingbecause it published a column critical of campus leftists. Wesleyan created a “safe space,” a.k.a. a house, forLGBTTQQFAGPBDSM students (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual,Queer, Questioning, Flexual, Asexual, Genderf—, Polyamorous,Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism).
A Washington StateUniversity professor said she would lower the grade of any student who used the term “illegal immigrants” when referring to immigrants here illegally. Another Washington State professor warned in his syllabus that white students who want “to do well” inhis “Introduction to Multicultural Literature” should show their “grasp ofhistory and social relations” by “deferring to the experiences of people ofcolor.” Another Washington State teacher, in her syllabus for “Women &Popular Culture,” warned that students risk “failure for thesemester” if they use “derogatory/oppressive language” such as “referring towomen/men as females or males”.
