According to recent reports, University of California President Janet Napolitano was behind the recent decision to discourage the school’s faculty from using dozens of potentially offensive words and phrases dubbed ‘microaggressions.’ Far from shunning only openly bigoted or hateful speech, phrases as historically inoffensive as “America is the land of opportunity” are off-limits under the new code.
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The Left is so intolerant of disagreement on the issues, they can no longer leave it up to PCism to shut opponents up. Why leave it to social pressure when they wield real power? Now we have 'microaggressions,' a term that is applied so loosely, that it covers even traditional American values like opportunity. Oh, how can we possibly brag about opportunity when so many people don't avail themselves of it? (Specifically, certain demographic groups that vote Democrat ...)
It's not enough to say that they disagree about how much opportunity is out there, now they are going to mandate that people not even voice the opinion that opportunity is out there.
This is crazy. This is Leftist Insanity. GD control freaks! (George Carlin ... if only you were alive to breathe some sanity into this.)
The list of phrases no longer acceptable on campus includes numerous other examples of what many are denouncing as political correctness run amok. Among them are:
I believe the most qualified person should get the job.
When I look at you, I don’t see color.
Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough.
Where are you from or where were you born?
There is only one race, the human race.
UC’s ostensible motivation in implementing the new policy is a desire to cut down on “statements which assert that race or gender does not place a role in life successes.”
Many social media critics, however, identified political correctness as the ultimate objective.