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Political Correctness

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*sexual harassment*white privilege*immigration*racial microaggressions*safe space*anxiety panic attack*sexual orientationA lawmaker claiming that a sign named after General Joseph Hooker is offensive to women because his name was “Hooker,” “God bless you” being declared an anti-Islamic microaggression, and a professor declaring that small chairs in preschools are sexist, “problematic,” and “disempowering.”Political or business leaders “frequently” make bad decisions because they are worried about being politically correct.A 2015 debate about campus sexual assault at Brown University led some women on campus to fear the dialogue would trigger civil rights warnings to a degree that at the University's guidance, attendees “who might find the debate upsetting” were provided with “a safe space room” equipped with “cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies,” as reported by the New York Times.Bill Maher calls political correctness "a cancer on progressivism."The University of Massachusetts at Amherst threw a mass temper tantrum to derail a forum that challenged the speech police.  With shouts of "F##k you! F##k you!" and "Keep your hate speech off this campus" students prevented an open discussion forum featuring three guests: American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, journalist Milo Yiannopoulos and comedian Steven Crowder.
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