University of California school system bans "America is the land of opportunity."

[sean miguel]

Phrases such as “America is the land of opportunity” and “America is a melting pot" are "micro-aggressions" that could leave some students feeling discriminated against, according to a new faculty training guide put out by the University of California that one former professor in the system says shows "how crazy it's become."

The guide, which says those phrases and others can be interpreted by minorities as “denying the significance of a person of color’s racial/ethnic experience and history,” or that they “assimilate to the dominant culture,” is used across the vast, 200,000-student University of California system. Specifically, it is for training professors in “faculty leadership seminars” that aim to “enhance department and campus climate toward inclusive excellence.”

“I don’t think University of California realizes how crazy it’s become."

- Tim Groseclose, an economics professor at George Mason University

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/06/1...tunity-offensive-university-california-warns/


Was this rule or guideline even needed? Since when are UC professors extolling the virtues of America?

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Good to know what words and phrases I can use to send a libtarded hippie running for the nearest safe place. Fuck California.

 

[pool_hustler]

I think I've mentioned before that I think a certain degree of what many refer to as "political correctness" is actually quite reasonable.
But this is beyond fucking ridiculous and gives that ^ a bad name.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Pretty soon the entire English language will constitute hate speech to those fuckers.

 

[Jack Davenport]

Isn't it just fantastic that the left dictates what phrases and words that are acceptable?

 

[sean miguel]

Isn't it just fantastic that the left dictates what phrases and words that are acceptable?

I read Orwell's 1984 in the 7th grade so it's kinda fuzzy but I remember there was an entire department whose purpose was to remove words and phrases from the language deemed unorthodox.

 

[Rey C.]

I read Orwell's 1984 in the 7th grade so it's kinda fuzzy but I remember there was an entire department whose purpose was to remove words and phrases from the language deemed unorthodox.

Come on, man... that's just a book. There's no way that could happen in real life. And certainly not in the United States of America.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

The job of PC is to murder facts. Knowledge is a collection of facts. Wisdom is the use of knowledge. Therefore, the job of PC is to murder wisdom.

 

[xfire]

Excellent use of logic, AB, and there's not doubt that PC has gone overboard. I don't like anything that seeks to limit individual liberty and it's one of my biggest issues with organized religion.