Not a Very P.C Thing to Say

At a growing number of campuses, professors now attach “trigger warnings” to texts that may upset students, and there is a campaign to eradicate “microaggressions,” or small social slights that might cause searing trauma. These newly fashionable terms merely repackage a central tenet of the first p.c. movement: that people should be expected to treat even faintly unpleasant ideas or behaviors as full-scale offenses.

To say that college students are sensitive is an understatement. Offense can be taken at every syllable pronounced, and it can be reported. At Ithaca College, there is now an anonymous micro-aggression reporting system online. This is absurd. Anything can be misconstrued out of context or exaggerated to get another student in trouble. Having a sight like this is begging for lies to be uploaded. If someone does say something that deeply offends another student, the student should talk to the other student about it.