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To: Bill who wrote (90823)	12/8/2015 8:34:48 PM
From: TopCat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Don't these people have classes to go to and home work? I know I did. Didn't have time for this nonsense.

To: Bill who wrote (90823)	12/14/2015 5:28:48 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The PC campus police come to Obama’s old school By Post Editorial Board December 14, 2015 The campus PC Express’ latest stop is in California, on the hallowed lawns of Occidental College — where young Barack Obama first studied before transferring to Columbia University. Occidental kids are demanding a “microaggression” monitoring system that would empower them to report faculty members who’ve offended them. A “microagression” is something that isn’t plainly offensive, but might be taken that way if someone looking to be upset thinks hard enough. The libertarians at Reason magazine interviewed several students to see if, say, “God bless you” might be a microaggression (as other schools have ruled it). Sure, came the answers. Beneath the utter silliness of this PC stuff lies an ugly power play. Occidental is looking at microaggression policy after the student group Oxy United for Black Liberation last month submitted a point-by-point list of radical demands — including that campus security ditch their bulletproof vests. Rather than rejecting that out of hand, Occidental administrators — like their counterparts at the University of Missouri and Yale — said they’d consider the demands. Soon enough, microagression monitoring was on the table. Supporters say it’s needed because of the “power imbalances between faculty and students.” Huh? There’s supposed to be an imbalance. Doesn’t matter: The PC police want to give (some) students the power to ruin professors’ careers. By definition, the “offense” here is subjective and small. How is anyone supposed to teach if she has to worry about being reported and investigated for unknowingly saying the “wrong” thing in class? Of course, teaching’s not the point. Welcome to campus life, 2015 nypost.com