Today\’s paragraphs – two of them plus the first sentence of a third – come to us from Bruce Thornton, writing at frontpagemag.com. They concern the fact that, as Jerry Seinfeld put it (read yesterday\’s Quote Of The Day), college campuses have become fetid swamps of a Political Correctness so intractable and so one-sided that, now, even the leftward academics who were loving it just a short time ago, are having second thoughts.
Here is what Mr. Thornton wrote:
Recently several progressive professors have publicly complained that their students are hounding them for failing to consider their tender sensibilities by straying beyond the p.c. orthodoxy on sexual assault, sex identity, linguistic correctness, and a whole host of other progressive shibboleths. Northwestern “feminist” professor Laura Kipnis found herself in a Title IX star chamber for an article she wrote decrying the immaturity of her legally adult students. Over at Vox, another progressive confessed (anonymously, reminding us that academics are an invertebrate species) he was so “scared” and “terrified” of his “liberal” students that he self-censors his comments in class and has changed his reading list.
These incidents follow the complaints of other progressives like Kirsten Powers and Jonathan Chait that the intolerant ideology at the heart of progressivism is now getting out of hand–something that many of us have been writing about for nearly 3 decades. That these progressives should now be shocked at such intolerance and persecution after decades of speech codes, disruptions of conservative speakers, campus inquisitions which ignore Constitutional rights, cancellations of commencement speakers, and ideological litmus tests imposed on new hires and curricula, bespeaks not principle, but rather indignation that now they are on the receiving end of the bullying and harassment long inflicted on conservatives and people of faith.
Indeed, the campus intolerance progressives are now whining about is the child of the progressive ideology many of the complainers still embrace.
I\’m not what you would call a biblical scholar – and if I were it would not be the new testament – but Galatians 6 – 7 rings pretty true here:
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap
Well, these folks made their God. The God of PC Uber Alles. I hope they\’re happy with their creation.
Bruce Thornton garners Paragraph(s) Of The Day honors for bringing this home so clearly; so insightfully.
Well done, Mr. Thornton.
