Political Correctness

Over 50 Colleges Endorsing The First Ever Holiday Of Zieselves, Xerselves, Eirselves 0
- Political Correctness
- October 2, 2018
Neetu Chandak More than 50 colleges are endorsing the inaugural International Pronouns Day on Oct. 17 to “make asking, sharing, and respecting personal pronouns commonplace.” “Just as it can be offensive or even harassing to make up a nickname for someone and call them that nickname against their will, it can be offensive or harassing
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College Discourages 9/11 Memorial Citing Muslims’ Feelings 0
- Political Correctness
- September 3, 2018
Molly Prince A private Wisconsin college discouraged students from exhibiting a Sept. 11 memorial fearing that it could foster an anti-Muslim environment on campus. Ripon College condemned a flier by Young America’s Foundation (YAF) to honor the memory of those killed in the 2001 attacks and to help prevent the events from being forgotten, reported The
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NASA Intern Tweets ‘Suck My D*ck’ To Space Councilman, Gets Fired 0
- Front Page, Political Correctness
- August 22, 2018
A Twitter user was just a little too excited about being accepted for a NASA internship. Her celebratory tweets landed her out of an internship. Twitter user @NaomiH_Official (whose Twitter account is now private) tweeted out an announcement that she had been accepted for the internship program. The Tweet was certainly less than professional, and
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Is Political Correctness Killing Entertainment?0
- Political Correctness
- August 18, 2018
On August 3rd, 1966, stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce was found dead in his bathroom, seemingly of a drug overdose. Only 40 years old at the time, Bruce’s untimely death followed a string of run-ins with the law, and a four-month period in a New York workhouse. The crime that landed Bruce in hot-water towards the
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How the Term ‘Social Justice Warrior’ Became an Insult 0
- Political Correctness
- August 10, 2018
Virtually everyone has heard of the term social justice warrior by now. The term has become quite popular the past few years—so big in fact, that the Oxford Dictionary added it to their dictionary in 2015. Most people by now know that when someone is accused of being a social justice warrior, it is probably
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Does Political Correctness Erase Cultural Substance?0
- Political Correctness
- July 24, 2018
Does it ever seem to you that a politically correct student can do no wrong? That question crossed my mind when I read about a recent incident at the University of Manchester. According to The Guardian, the University of Manchester recently refurbished its students’ union. Part of the décor involved a mural of the poem
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