Yes, you can be kicked out of West Virginia University for having a ‘girl friend’
Make no mistake about it, there is very little free speech on college campuses. The combination of political correctiveness and liberal bias wrapped up into insidious devices called “speech codes” under which administrators can clamp down on anyone and anything they feel runs against their views. If you think we are exaggerating, look at what West Virginia University tells incoming freshmen:
from: Speechcodes.org:
West Virginia University would instruct incoming students and new faculty that they must “use language that is not gender specific…Instead of referring to anyone’s romantic partner as girlfriend’ or boyfriend,’ use positive generic terms such as friend’, lover,’ or partner.’”
Okay, this is now officially scary. I vaguely remember the days when college campuses stood for free speech. They do of course unless you are going to exercise that constitutional right to refer to something from a heteronormative perspective or anything else that comes even close to violating administrations’ oppressive politically correct perspectives.
Regrettably, the academic environment at most of our universities is dominated by political correctness, a view of the world that is invariably anti-free market, suspicious of the United States, and reflexively intolerant of opposing views. Because true intellectual debate is often
stifled in college, students graduate woefully uninformed about the philosophical foundations of Western liberal democracy, the true workings of capitalism, and the full history of America.
If you are interested in hearing more about this and have a broadband connection, you can download the documentary Brainwashing 101 at no cost. It is an enlightening look at what an alum of Bucknell University finds when he returns to campus. You won’t find it on Sundance Channel or IFC although it deserves to be on both.
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