Campus Reform is reporting that multiple professors at Washington State University have inserted into their syllabi rules for what students can and can’t say. If students don’t adhere to the professors’ speech codes their grades will suffer, they will be removed from class, and in some cases fail the course.
Here are some examples of what the college kids are faced with these days:
In Selena Lester Breikss’ “Women & Popular Culture” class, students risk a failing grade if they use any common descriptors that Breikss considers “oppressive and hateful language.
In Breikss’ class referring to women/men as females or males is considered offensive. Her goals for her students are that
[s]tudents will come to recognize how white privilege functions in everyday social structures and institutions.
I’m curious – how do you think she explains white privilege after two democratic presidential elections in favor of a black man? Did he cheat? Did he not really get all those white votes? It just boggles the mind.
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